Find A Clinical Trial For What Ails You

Garrett Wilkin, August 10th, 2011

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ClinicalTrials.gov is a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The site provides detailed information on all U.S. clinical trials currently underway. With the ClinicalTrials.gov API, the question “What recent clincial trials have examined garlic” can be answered. That’s right, garlic is a therapeutic agent under active research. This data repository contains data on trials of both pharmacueticals and dietary supplements.

Best New Mashups: Let’s Host a Party

Allen Tipper, August 10th, 2011

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Here at ProgrammableWeb, we love using mashups and APIs to help make our lives better in many ways. Just as mashups can take multiple APIs and piece something new together, you can do that with multiple mashups. For example, let’s say we’re going to host a party. Well, we’d need music, food, other entertainment and a way to connect people together. The mashups listed below can help you with all of this.

$7,000 of Coffee in Two Days: an API to Check the Balance of One Developer’s Active Starbucks Card

Adam DuVander, August 9th, 2011

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Jonathan Stark’s Starbucks card is seeing a lot of use this week. That’s because he’s sharing it with the whole Internet. Anonymous people are both using and adding money to the card and we can all follow the balance with the Jonathan’s Card API or over the tweets which come rolling in once per minute.

Open Source Phone System with Twilio OpenVBX

Kin Lane, August 9th, 2011

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Right on the heels of the Twilio Client that developers can use to add Skype-like capabilities their mobile or web apps, the company is is launching a supporting virtual phone system built on its Twilio API. OpenVBX, along with the Twilio Client, provides a complete web-based business phone system, similar to Google Voice.

Mopper Mops Up Top Prize In Paypal Challenge

Romin Irani, August 9th, 2011

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The Paypal Developer Challenge for Android has announced its results. The Paypal Challenge was in its 3^rd edition and was focused only on Android applications. Given the rise of Android phones and the fact that mobile payment is likely to play a more important role moving forward, the challenge was squarely focussed on seeing how well developers would integrate Paypal solutions into their applications.

Location Rosetta Stone Aids Interoperable Places Data

Adam DuVander, August 8th, 2011

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Data startup Factual has taken the largest step yet toward solving a problem of our modern, mobile, location-enabled lifestyle. With each restaurant-finding or check-in application, developers are building their own databases of places. Each has its own identifier and no connection to any other listing referencing the same place–a restaurant, park, office building or other landmark. Now Factual has added its “crosswalk” feature to the Factual Places API to address the problem and offer a solution that connects over 500 million web pages to specific venues. Included are the place pages from other directories of places, making Factual a Rosetta Stone for translating identifiers.

The Evolving Face of the Hackathon

Kin Lane, August 8th, 2011

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Hackathons have been a staple in Silicon Valley tech culture for quite some time, but recently we have seen seeing hackathons evolve outside of the valley — from Los Angeles to Prague.

The format of the Hackathon is pretty straightforward: You bring together a group of developers in a room, give them a topic to code around, then they break into teams and begin hacking for usually from 24-72 hours. On the final day, theypresent what they’ve built. Winners usually go home with cash, prizes, and of course notoriety.

34 New APIs: Political Influence, Cloudwords, Font Kit Publishing

Wendell Santos, August 7th, 2011

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This week we had 34 new APIs added to our API directory including one to measure political influence in the U.S. There was also an event online community service, web usable font library service, automatic check in to foursquare service, noise pollution monitoring service, usability analytics service, and community site customization service. In addition, we provided more in depth coverage of Stephen Colbert awarding a trophy to an email mashup developer, the recent Portland Hackathon, and a fake call API. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.

28 APIs Used in 7 Days: Yahoo PlaceFinder, Flickr, Groupon

Wendell Santos, August 6th, 2011

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This past week 12 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 28 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Fwix Location, Google Places, MapQuest Geocoding, PDXCouncilConnect, SendGrid, SimpleGeo, SimpleGeo Places, Yahoo PlaceFinder and Yellow Canada. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, PDXCouncilConnect and SimpleGeo. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (8 APIs, 13 mashups), Social (5 APIs, 5 mashups) and Music (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:

Yahoo Targets Youtube With Embeddable Media Player

Kin Lane, August 5th, 2011

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Yahoo has just released a cool new embeddable media player, Yahoo WebPlayer, that supports MP3 and WMA files, as well as multiple services like YouTube and Yahoo Video. Yahoo has also launched a whole new site to attract publishers and developers and to encourage them to use the player when publishing audio and video across the Web.