Planspot API Simplifies Event Marketing

Eric Carter, May 14th, 2013

PlanspotPlanspot, event marketing service provider, provides access to its marketing tools through the Planspot API. The Planspot platform offers an all-in-one marketing tool that can manage, promote, and sell tickets to events. From promotion via email and social media, to dashboards that track sales and monitor progress, Planspot embodies its founder’s dream: “to create a single solution for event promotion, publishing, discovering and planning.”


NYPL Launches New API Allowing Developers Access to Vast Archives of Digitized Creative Works

Janet Wagner, April 8th, 2013

New York Public Library Digital CollectionsEarlier this year, ProgrammableWeb reported that the New York Public Library (NYPL) had launched the What’s on the Menu API, the first public API released by the institution. The New York Public Library has just announced the launch of the NYPL Digital Collections API which allows developers programmatic access to the Library’s vast collections of digitized creative works including manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints, photographs and much more.


From Printing Press to API: Book Publishers’ Revolutionary Tools

Greg Bates, March 11th, 2013

WordnikBefore 1500, monks spent their lives copying the Bible by hand. That method was replaced by printing presses for the next 500 years. Today, ebooks are set to end the practice of pulping trees and smearing them with ink. In all this change the direction of information access has been constant for half a millennium: faster and faster, easier and easier. The next revolution for publishers is APIs for books.


The Vizrt Escenic API: The Next Step in Keeping Major Content Providers Content

Greg Bates, February 26th, 2013

Vizrt Escenic Content EngineVizrt (pronounced Viz-R-Tee, short for Vizualization in Real Time), has a series of Javascript and RESTful APIs that provides access to Vizrt’s Escenic Content Engine for media/broadcast organizations. The REST APIs allow developers to use the Esconic platform in PHP and .NET, among other programming languages.


SmartFile Releases Version 2 of Platform and Includes Brand New API

Janet Wagner, February 1st, 2013

SmartFileSmartFile, a web-based FTP hosting and file sharing platform, has just announced the release of the new and improved Version 2 SmartFile Platform that includes many new features, a new user interface and a brand new API.


App.Net’s File API Adds Fuel to Social Media Unrest

Michael Vizard, January 29th, 2013

App.netMore often than not all it takes to start a revolution is somebody who is angry enough to change the status quo. Ever since the dawn of social media sites the predominant business model has been variations of the walled garden approach to content originally pioneered by America Online (AOL). Today that walled garden approach manifests itself in the form of APIs that have been locked down by social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.


OpenMedia.io Aims to Open Entertainment Media with Free API

Eric Carter, January 17th, 2013

Wacku has launched a non-profit open API in the broadcast media space: OpenMedia.io. The OpenMedia.io platform collects video and other media from human and machine-readable sources. In turn, the API updates users when need additions or changes have been made to the library. Currently most of its sources include YouTube videos, Podcasts, Web-TV series, and some movies. The OpenMedia.io team has invited the major broadcasters and studios to participate in its open project to no avail.


Scholarly IQ: It’s All about Usage for Publishers, Libraries, and Third Party Providers

Greg Bates, January 8th, 2013

Scholarly iQUnderstanding the usage of your publications used to be easy: if it’s a book, count the sales. A magazine? Count the subscriptions. An article–count the circulation of the hosting publication. If you’re a librarian, just look at how many times it was checked out. For impact, count citations. The digital universe requires new tools to measure these and the Scholarly IQ API is Scholarly’s app  for putting them right into your application. Scholarly IQ uses SUSHI to harvest COUNTER usage statistics.


The Stipple API: Embed the Story Behind the Photo and a Lot More

Greg Bates, December 28th, 2012

StippleThe Stipple API is free, has no request limits as of yet, and OAUTH 2 will be supported in the future. According to its website on the API, it is “inspired by REST”. Stipple announces its rare downtime, which is usually used to migrate data, via its twitter account.


Here Come the Public Media Platform APIs

Curtis C. Chen, December 27th, 2012

NPRLast week, National Public Radio (NPR) announced the formation of a new non-profit organization to oversee development of a Public Media Platform (PMP) which “will allow public media producers and stations to gather their digital content in one place, and cost-effectively distribute it across digital platforms.” The PMP also received $8 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to support building APIs to provide access to that content.


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