Google Coordinate API enables mobile work teams to do four simple things that, when done by everyone on the team, can propel productivity: communicate, see everyone’s location on a map, pinpoint and assign jobs, and notify and update each other constantly.
Our API directory now includes 316 government APIs. The newest is the Google Civic Information API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Sunlight Labs Congress API. We list 19 Sunlight Labs Congress mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of government APIs.
Application Craft releases a mobile app development platform that makes application creation a lot easier. The REST Fest 2012 “unconference” is right around the corner. Plus: Twitter API Using Tiggzi, Buddycloud is Learning By Doing, and 20 new APIs.
This week we had 71 new APIs added to our API directory including a social eCommerce platform, optical character recognition service, location information services, web marketing services and a mobile printing app. In addition we covered Involver’s launch of a groundbreaking social advertising optimization API. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
There are nearly 5,000 APIs. We can connect services and build just about anything. By “we,” I mean developers. Regular people were left behind by what now seems like a passing fad, widgets. The web would benefit from a resurgence of widget-making and developers are just the sort to take advantage of the opportunity.
Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form business models around their ideas. ProgrammableWeb is tracking 22 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
New York City is hosting its third annual BigApps conference this year: BigApps 3.0. Build an application from any combination of 750 New York City data sets that describe everything from political campaign contributions to bicycle rack locations. There are more than a dozen different prize categories and $50,000 of cash prizes to be distributed. For the first time in a BigApps contest, New York City has its own API and the contest also encourages using APIs of NYC companies, including the Foursquare API and Etsy API.
In April, we covered the DonorsChoose.org Hack Education contest, where developers were challenged to create apps and data visualizations with the DonorsChoose API that would engage the public and have an impact on education. Out of over 50 apps, an email mashup was named the top choice, with its developer receiving a trophy from political comedian (and DonorsChoose board member) Stephen Colbert.
The second-most popular API in our directory has revamped its developer site and announced some incredible numbers. Microblogging service Twitter says it has more than 1,000,000 registered apps from three-quarters of a million developers. After a year when it’s been unclear how important developers are to Twitter, this new site is perhaps an olive branch to its huge community. The new site for those developers includes its own API blog, on-site discussions and enhanced app management.
With an announcement of new permissions levels, Twitter is requiring apps that need access to direct messages to re-authorize their users. For mobile apps, this could mean rewriting to use OAuth for the first time. When the developer community balked at a shorter timeline, Twitter extended the deadline to June 14 June 30. Though most developers will not need to make changes to their applications, those that do will have to do so in only 27 43 days.
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