The HackLolla API contest is done and we have the info about the awesome mashups that won prizes in it. The music loving developer contest, announced in May, urged applications coded against the Lollapalooza schedule and artist discovery.
Do you wish there was an easy way to create animated movies where all you had to do was simply select the character, scene, provide the dialogues and the software would take care of the rest? What if all of this was possible right in your browser and as a bonus the video got posted to YouTube to share with your friends? The YouTube.com Create gives that power to anyone and your apps can join in the fun using the YouTube API.
When the Netflix API turns three in October, it will also be making some big changes. With a focus on the quickly growing streaming service, Netflix will remove access to its DVD-related API calls. That means any websites or mobile apps that help organize your DVD queue will switch to only providing results that are available on its Netflix Instant streaming service.
The most popular API, in terms of mashup count, is far and away the Google Maps API, which accounts for 41% of all mashups. But when it comes to the most popular pair of APIs, Flickr and YouTube mashups are the most common. Not to be outdone, Google Maps joins Flickr in a near second place.
Tokbox, the online video communications platform, is on a roll. Earlier this year, we had reported how Tokbox decided to change it strategy from delivering an application to focusing on a pure API platform play. This paid rich dividends in an increase in number of partners taking to their platform and they moved later on enabling Video chat on Android and iOS devices. Tokbox has now gone one step further by implanting itself as a solid choice for enabling Video Chat on your site by targeting the millions of WordPress sites with a Wordpress plugin built on the TokBox OpenTok API.
Two months ago TokBox gave up 2 million users to focus on its TokBox OpenTok API. The former video chat site instead wanted to make it easy for everyone to add video chat to their sites. The platform now has over 80 partners and is seeing great interest amongst developers. Today the company announced a move into making its video chat available on mobile devices.
Netflix continues to see tremendous growth in its Netflix API. The API which saw humble beginnings in 2008 has taken a giant leap in usage, ever since Netflix started streaming functionality to devices. In what could be one of the largest usages of a public API, the current number of requests for its API is around 20 billion per month and increasing by the day, forcing Netflix to look at measures to decrease them.
Topsy, the Twitter search indexer that recently raised another $15 million, now lets users zero in on tweets mentioning videos. According to Topsy, the trending videos are the “most popular videos shared by influential users within the first 24 hours of their release.” The feature is also available in its Topsy API, though currently undocumented.
“Ideas worth spreading” is the slogan of TED, the elite conference whose videos are extremely popular on the web. Now the potentially viral content will be spread even further with the new TED API for accessing the 900 videos and associated metadata.
TokBox, the web-based video chat and conferencing application, has announced a change in directions. Its popular TokBox application shall cease to be available and instead the company will focus on its OpenTok API, with all its energies on increasing API adoption with a developer contest to go along with it. To get the ball rolling, today it’s announced 30 new partners already on the platform.
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