There have been hundreds of Startup Weekends around the world in 2011 alone. By the end of the year, Seattle will have hosted several, including the Startup Weekend Seattle EDU which starts this weekend. The 54 hour event brings together software developers, graphic designers and business people to build education focused applications. What better way to give these new startups a leg up than to encourage them to build on top of one or more of the 40 education APIs in the directory?
In this post I’ll describe how we planned, built and tested a truly real-time location-based game with Socket.io, Redis, Node.js, and what we learned along the way. Over the past few months, we’ve spent the majority our free time building a real-time game as a test for our location platform, Geoloqi. We call the game MapAttack! due to its map-based nature. Two teams compete to capture the most points on the gameboard. The gameboard, in this case, is the city streets of the neighborhood the players are in.
The amount of messages that are being shared by users on the social networks has reached massive proportions. What if we were able to add Voice to all the social snippets that we are sharing today on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks? That’s the target of a new “Social Voice Platform” QWiPS.
Continuing a three-part series on Facebook Ads API. In Part one, I looked at how Facebook Ads vendors have done little with their exclusive access to the API and instead have tried to game Facebook’s system through ad multiplication. In Part two, I discussed how the API can be used to gather the data needed to measure true performance. In this final part, I offer some ideas of tools that developers could create to improve the optimization of Facebook ads.
Yahoo has had a rich tradition of organizing hack events globally, where developers come together for a day or two and hack on Yahoo APIs. Now imagine a battle of champions, where all previous winners of Yahoo’s worldwide Open Hack and University Hack Day events are pitted against each other in an event with the grand prize winner earning a year of incubation with Yahoo. Well, Yahoo just did that.
Continuing a three-part series on the Facebook Ads API. In Part one, I looked at how Facebook Ads vendors have done little with their exclusive access to the API and instead have tried to game Facebook’s system through ad multiplication. In Part two, I’ll discuss how the API can be used to gather the data needed to measure true performance.
Until recently, only a handful of vendors have had access to the Facebook Ads API—a few major tool developers and some folks willing to make a $5M deposit with Facebook. We’ve been running Facebook ads and building apps for the last 4 years. The breakdown on the Facebook Ads API: It’s not exactly as robust as the Google AdWords API, but that creates an opportunity to build what Facebook has missed, or game the system, depending on whether you’re white or black hat.
This week we had 53 new APIs added to our API directory including a photo sharing service, web application analytics service, video chat service, Recovery Act 2009 data, web advertising analytics service and a cloud database service. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 26 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 13 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Geoloqi and Jamendo. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Twilio and Twilio SMS. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 5 mashups), Social (2 APIs, 7 mashups) and Internet (1 APIs, 1 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Having a web API is an essential part of doing business online today. We wanted to help get you started. So we took some time to pull together a list of the RESTful or RESTish (however you choose to view it) API frameworks, that can help you deploy your API faster.
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