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The Google APIs Discovery API is an innovative API description service that helps make sense of Google APIs. Anyone using this meta-API can find other Google APIs and see the options available from those APIs. And thanks to this new API, ProgrammableWeb has now added “Try It” functionality to several Google API profiles in our directory. Using Google’s Discovery API, we automatically retrive resources and methods from Google, with form fields created to accept input. Without leaving ProgrammableWeb, you can now check out select Google APIs like the Google Translate API.
ProgrammableWeb has seen tremendous growth, as we shot past 3,000 APIs in our directory. Our sponsors and partners enable us to have the top-notch writing and editing staff we do to maintain this growth. We’re pleased to offer you this chance to learn more about the companies that make our site possible.
Every day we select one new mashup to crown mashup of the day. It usually does something unique or uses a more obscure API. And it always gets interest across the web, being tweeted, blogged and tinkered with by our developer audience. We’d like to share some of the criteria we use to pick mashups of the day and invite you to submit your apps that make use of one or more APIs.
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ProgrammableWeb has reached a major milestone by adding its 3,000th web service API to our API directory. We’ve come a long way when you consider there were only 105 listed at the end of 2005. As we’ve noted previously, the growth rate of APIs doubled, which led to an influx of new services. Below are some of the trends we’ve spotted as the directory marks a new high.
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It’s a hefty goal to produce 100 applications in 100 days, but that’s the challenge being thrown down in a contest that aims to award a monetary prize for each of the 100 apps chosen. ProgrammableWeb is partnering with Alcatel-Lucent and Top Coder for 100 Apps in 100 Days, with $165,000 in prizes across four milestones between now and December.
Last week our mashups directory passed a new milestone, number 5000. Maps are still by far the number one type of mashup, but by slightly less than the snapshots of our previous milestones, as the directory has grown to include many types of mashups. Along the way, we’ve seen some prolific developers and there have been big wins for a number of mashups.
ProgrammableWeb has seen many notable milestones since our inception five years ago. We were excited when the repository of APIs grew to 100 entries (now over 2000), when the count of mashups hit 500 (now nearly 5000), and seeing the myriad of ways open APIs have become such a phenomenon. And now today we are excited to say that ProgrammableWeb itself is entering a new phase of growth with the announcement of our acquisition by Alcatel-Lucent.
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