Our API directory now includes 239 messaging APIs. The newest is the Parseco API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Twilio SMS API. We list 169 Twilio SMS mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of messaging APIs.
Here is the situation: You have an API – or a set of them – and you want third-party developers to run wild with it in new and unexpected ways. The words “innovation”, “ecosystem”, “community” and “crowdsourcing” are being thrown around liberally. Sponsoring hackathons has started some fantastic conversations, but the software created during these 24-48 hour sprints never seems to make it to market. Now you’re considering running a longer virtual software competition, or challenge, to spur a higher level of engagement.
Our API directory now includes 373 telephony APIs. The newest is the ClickMeeting API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Twilio API. We list 343 Twilio mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of telephony APIs.
Backend-as-a-service company Parse found a vulnerability in Facebook’s Android SDK that allowed apps to masquerade as users. Gnip has added to its network of social streams by partnering with the Twitter of China. Plus: Amazon in app purchases, an API for summer jobs and APIs to improve mobile performance.
Our API directory now includes 307 mobile APIs. The newest is the Mobilepax API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the foursquare API. We list 81 foursquare mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of mobile APIs.
Our API directory now includes 61 geolocation APIs. The newest is the Onuma WFS API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Panoramio API. We list 45 Panoramio mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of geolocation APIs.
RunKeeper is on its way to becoming the data platform for health applications. Last August, they announced the RunKeeper Health Graph with an API to boot, which makes it possible to build a digital map of an individual’s personal health. The platform has enabled various applications and health device manufacturers to start populating their user data directly into the RunKeeper Health Platform. The platform has met with much success with the application directory growing to more than 40 apps and devices and a new Fitness Reports Dashboard.
This week we had 42 new APIs added to our API directory including a mobile geolocation service, New York City transit service, flower sales and delivery service, lawyer and doctor directory, web based lean project management application and cloud based logging service. We wrote about three of these more in-depth: New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements; Expert Legal and Medical Directory an API Call Away; and TD Ameritrade’s Second API Aimed at Financial Advisors. Below is more detail on all 42 new APIs.
Active development on Google Wave, a collaboration tool that used features of email, chat and document sharing, has been shut down. Google announced that the chief reason for discontinuing Wave was the low user adoption. The platform will live on within other Google projects, as well as the many portions of Wave that have been open sourced.
In the past few days we’ve had 5 new APIs added to our API directory ranging from the new Sprint API, three APIs from Ericsson Labs, and the API for All for Good that helps you find local volunteer opportunities. Here are details on each of the latest APIs:
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