Today in APIs: Dropbox DBX, VA Backlog API and 12 New APIs

Romin Irani, May 7th, 2013

DBX, the first Developer conference from Dropbox to be held this year. Create your own data visualization applications via Veteran Affairs (VA) Backlog API. Plus: Rewards Program provider Billaway launches API and 12 new APIs.


82 Address APIs: Bing Maps Geocode, CloudMade Geocoding and Geocoder

Wendell Santos, May 7th, 2013

geocoderOur API directory now includes 82 address APIs. The newest is the 1Map API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the geocoder API. We list 41 geocoder mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of address APIs.


Today in APIs: AWS Support API, Informatica API and 22 New APIs

Greg Bates, May 6th, 2013

Amazon EC2AWS has new Support API. Informatica’s new Ultra API. Plus: Twitter gives API 1.0 a reprieve, SOA launches first API gateway, and 22 new APIs.


PW Interview: Stephen Balaban of Lamda Labs on the Face Recognition API

Ajay Ohri, April 29th, 2013

This article features an interview with Stephen Balaban, founder of Lamda Labs, provider of the Face Recognition API. This API helps detect and classify people within photographs using machine learning.


Today in APIs: Appy Pie’s New API Support and SmartFile Platform Bake-Off Winners

Romin Irani, April 26th, 2013

Appy Pie extends capability of mobile apps builder by adding new APIs. SmartClip wins the SmartFile Platform Bake-off Contest. Plus: Kin Lane speaks about the big opportunity in the API space..


PW Interview: Greg Lamp and Austin Ogilvie of Yhat on Shipping Predictive Models via API

Ajay Ohri, April 22nd, 2013

The ŷhat Cloud Toolbox is a suite of development tools for integrating predictive analytics into existing Web and mobile applications. ŷhat deploys your models as RESTful APIs, so there’s no need to port, translate, or adapt models for integration with existing systems. We have earlier covered YhatHQ API here.


111 New APIs: Pearson, EnClout and AirBNB

Wendell Santos, April 21st, 2013
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This week we had 111 new APIs added to our API directory including a form builder service, mobile application management platform, api pipelining service, in-store retail optimization service and cloud storage architecture service. We also covered a cutting edge motion controller and an API for server and website monitoring. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.


Today in APIs: Intel Buys Mashery, Appy Pie Ex-beta, and 7 New APIs

Greg Bates, April 18th, 2013

MasheryIntel buys Mashery. Appy Pie App builder out of beta. Plus: Factual and Qualcom labs team up, Twilio and KDDI partnership evolves, and 7 new APIs.


Google Mirror API documentation is open for developers

Ajay Ohri, April 18th, 2013

The Google Mirror API allows you to build web-based services, called Glassware, that interact with Google Glass. It provides this functionality over a cloud-based API and does not require running code on Glass. We announced the Mirror API here.
The Google Mirror API documentation is now open on Google Developers .


PW Interview: Ricky Robinett, Ordr.in API, Ordering Food meets API

Ajay Ohri, April 16th, 2013

Here is an interview with Ricky Robinett, senior Hacker at Ordr.in which promises to revolutionize the online ordering of food via an API and analytics based on that by connecting every restaurant everywhere to customers through an efficient digital platform. We have covered Ordr.in before but here Ricky talks about the API, how to increase developer involvement with the API and the huge growth in traffic in the API in 2013!


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