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56 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Bing, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, LinkedIn, NPR, Sunlight, Twitter, Yahoo, Yelp, and YouTube
John Musser, March 27th, 2010Comments (0)
This past week 17 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 56 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Blogmarks, Friendster, Gigablast, Posterous, Twinfluence, Twitter Grader, TypePad , ZoomIn and ZoomInfo. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Twitter and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (9 APIs, 15 mashups), Search (7 APIs, 11 mashups) and Video (7 APIs, 12 mashups). The following list shows which APIs were used by which mashups.
SEOmoz Doubles the Volume of Their Free SEO API
Matthew Casperson, March 26th, 2010Comments (0)
SEOmoz recently provided an API to their search engine optimization service, and inevitably comparisons were made to Site Explorer, which is a similar service offered by Yahoo. In a field where stats are king, the 500 links offered by the free SEOmoz service seemed to come up short against the 1000 links offered by Site Explorer. That has now changed, with SEOmoz doubling their volume of data available with their free API.
Google APIs Get Faster Thanks to Smart Optimizations
Matthew Casperson, March 26th, 2010Comments (1)
Doing more with less is one of those mantras that developers can quite often ignore thanks to ever increasing bandwidth, memory and CPU speeds. Google has bucked this trend by announcing that they intend to implement changes that can be used to optimize most of their API’s that on the Google Data Protocol.
New Y Combinator Class Is Full of APIs
Adam DuVander, March 25th, 2010Comments (0)
It’s demo time for the two dozen startups from incubator Y Combinator. Though there are many that have yet to launch publicly, the focus of the program is to get quickly from idea to product. It’s notable how many have used APIs, either to boost their features or as a forward-thinking move to invite developer collaboration.
Google Launches Maps Elevation Data API
Adam DuVander, March 25th, 2010Comments (0)
Flat maps have a hard time communicating elevation changes, but now you can access the data to visualize as you want. Google Maps added two elevation services, bringing you the meters above sea level for any point on earth.
Mapping Meaning: Showing Social Impact With Open Action
Adam DuVander, March 24th, 2010Comments (0)
Put your social project on the map. Or, use those already listed to find something new in an area you care about. The OpenAction Map is a well-done full-screen map mashup that shows positive work based on the location that is being impacted.
Salesforce.com: “We’re more an API company than an applications company”
Andres Ferrate, March 24th, 2010Comments (0)
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com, has published a compelling post about “The Incredible Importance of Open APIs” over at the Force.com blog. In case you may have forgotten, Salesforce.com’s web APIs are an integral part of the company’s offerings, with a variety of internal and third party products that rely on these APIs for literally millions of transactions a day (in fact, by January, 2008 Salesforce.com had already served 24 billion API calls).
Flickr Users: Now Track Your Photo’s Pageviews via Flickr’s New Stats API
Matthew Casperson, March 23rd, 2010Comments (0)
There is nothing more satisfying than sharing that once in a lifetime shot with the world, except maybe seeing that it has been viewed by a few thousand people. These kinds of stats have been collected by Flickr for quite some time, and now they are available to developers thanks to some new functions added to the Flickr API.
Google Lets You Get The Bugs Out With IssueTracker API
Adam DuVander, March 23rd, 2010Comments (0)
Many Open Source projects host their repositories with Google Code, where anyone can download the source. Now their bugs and feature requests can be just as open, with the read/write IssueTracker API.
Marketing APIs: Promotional Site in a Box
Adam DuVander, March 22nd, 2010Comments (0)
Every site needs promotion, right? That means your new site could use a quick boost from what others have already created. This post will cover some marketing APIs, as part of our Site in a Box series.
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