This past week 8 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 50 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Acapela, APIfy, AuthorityLabs Account, AuthorityLabs Partner, Boxcar, Buffer, Diigo, Google Sites , Gravatar, Instapaper, Pinboard, Plurk, Pocket, Posterous, Readability , Scoop.it, Svpply, Weather Central, WordPress.com, Yammer and Zootool. The most often used APIs this week are Last.fm, Twitter and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (9 APIs, 10 mashups), Bookmarks (6 APIs, 6 mashups) and Internet (5 APIs, 5 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Google Announces its competitor to Amazon EC2. YouTube wants you to create awesome experiences using their new APIs. Plus: Zynga reveals API for third-party developers, the health graph expands and 22 New APIs.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization in Seattle, Washington, worked for several years to build a map of gene expression in the human brain. It released a Mouse Brain Atlas in 2007, then used similar techniques to complete its Human Brain Atlas in 2010. Last week, at its first hackathon, the Institute launched an API for the Human Brain Atlas, allowing researchers all over the world direct access to that information.
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Today we’re looking at mashups that instead of aiding your productivity, are just fun to pass the time with. These mashups use a variety of APIs from popular ones such as Twitter and LastFM, to lesser known ones such as Forvo and EchoNest. Our directory currently contains 223 mashups tagged as fun.
Google IO 2012 is underway and Android related announcements took centre stage on the first day. Google’s very own PaaS platform, App Engine has seen consistent releases over the last 6 months and they used the IO 2012 event to release their latest version 1.7.0 that includes SSL support for Custom Domains, PageSpeed support, a new serving location in EU and Search API enhancements.
The Resfly API gives developers access to a integrating the ability to post jobs on many of the big job boards onto their platform. These range from Indeed (which apparently has eclipsed Monster) to Linkedin, from Craigslist to specialized ones in health care and other interests.
Google is doubling down on cloud computing, further opening up its infrastructure to developers. Google Compute Engine supports “Linux virtual servers at Google scale,” according to the company’s announcement at its Google I/O developer conference. The new offering sits alongside the Google App Engine API as part of its infrastructure-as-a-service Cloud Platform initiative. Google Compute is also the closest competitor the search giant has to Amazon EC2.
DocuSign, a leading eSignature Transaction Management Platform is on a mission to make the task of integrating electronic signatures into your applications easier. It has announced the release of the company’s new DocuSign eSignature REST API with a revamped Developer portal that can get you started with implementing eSignatures in your applications within hours.
The community of Web 2.0 startups thrives on open APIs, mashups, and quick time to market for new applications. For instance, mashup up-and-comer Pinstagram (you guessed it, a mashup of Pinterest and Instagram) created its market-ready version product in three days: “[We were] having lunch on a Friday…[w]e went into hackathon mode, and by Sunday we were basically done with the initial version we launched with” commented Pinstagram co-founder Brandon Leonardo. However, do legacy corporations that play vital roles in the web-app environment (e.g. you need a killer network to launch a killer app) adopt the same API-focused thinking? Consider the world’s largest communications holding company: AT&T.
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