The Last Great Hope for Math PhDs: Kontagent, Wrangler Of Big Data

Garrett Wilkin, February 1st, 2012

KontagentHave you ever heard of a Chief Science Officer? I recently spoke to Kontagent’s CSO and was excited to learn that Kontagent’s world of big data processing is one of the few places in the world in which academic exercise is directly applicable to industry.  Kontagent is a user analytics platform which can easily be integrated into any web site or mobile app.  The ease of integration results from the decision to provide a RESTful Kontagent API.


81 News APIs: Digg, FanFeedr and ClearForest

Wendell Santos, February 1st, 2012

DiggOur API directory now includes 81 news APIs. The newest is the New York Times Events API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Digg API. We list 69 Digg mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of news APIs.


Social Media Management Tool Adds Its Own API

Adam DuVander, February 1st, 2012

HootSuite EngagementHootSuite, a social media management tool for web and mobile, uses a lot of APIs. Now, it also provides one, the HootSuite Engagement API, which the company unveiled today. The new platform allows developers to create, schedule and organize social messages and accounts.


Send and Receive with These Four Email APIs

Tim Lytle, January 31st, 2012

SendGridSo you need to send emails. Pretty simple right? Not so fast. It doesn’t matter how easy your language or framework makes sending emails, if you try to do it on your own be prepared to configure mail servers, setup Spam-related DNS entries, and still wonder if mail is actually being delivered. And your applications needs to process incoming email? Back to the config files, piping mail to your script – or just end up polling a POP or IMAP box. That’s what I had to do, back in the day. Fortunately, like so many things today, there’s an API for that. Actually there are a few.


Today in APIs: Amazon S3’s Trillions, Facebook App Pages and 13 New APIs

Adam DuVander, January 31st, 2012

Amazon S3Amazon’s simple storage solution, the Amazon S3 API, is growing fast, on . Facebook is getting rid of pages for Facebook apps, which fueled the social network’s growth. Plus: find an API developer, try out eight more API consoles and incorporate ads into your mobile apps with Google.


76 Storage APIs: Box.net, Amazon S3, Dropbox

Wendell Santos, January 31st, 2012

Amazon S3Our API directory now includes 76 storage APIs. The newest is the Pervasive Data Integrator API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Amazon S3 API. We list 77 Zillow mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of storage APIs.


What are WebHooks and How Do They Enable a Real-time Web?

Phil Leggetter, January 30th, 2012

PusherPusher has established itself as a leading service for delivering WebSocket messages to connected clients via its simple, RESTful Pusher API. This especially suits application developers working with languages and platforms that struggle to maintain and scale persistent connections. We remove the need to roll a custom solution and work with complex and unfamiliar technologies, and ensure the benefits of a hosted service can be achieved. We’ve recently added support for WebHooks, which provide a different sort of real-time solution.


Calling European Devs to GOTO Copenhagen

Romin Irani, January 30th, 2012

Developers living in and around Copenhagen, mark your calendars. The GOTO Copenhagen conference is now in its second year running after a successful event in 2011. The Conference brings together developers, leads, managers and architects for three days of technical sessions across various tracks like languages, front-end development, architecture and many more. The conference is followed by a two day Training program on various topics that you can register to attend, too.


64 New APIs: Parse.ly, ImageCollect and Yottaa

Wendell Santos, January 29th, 2012

This week we had 64 new APIs added to our API directory including a content publishing analytics service, social publishing platform, celebrity photo library, social commerce platform, cost splitting service and website optimization service. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.


39 APIs Used in 7 Days: Foursquare, AngelList, GitHub

Wendell Santos, January 28th, 2012

This past week 18 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 39 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AngelList, Elance, EPA Station Catalog, EPA Watershed Summary, Google Sites , Google Translator Toolkit , Mapfluence, MediaTemple and RPM Software. The most often used APIs this week are foursquare, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (6 APIs, 10 mashups), Mapping (5 APIs, 7 mashups) and Shopping (5 APIs, 6 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


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