I recently wrote an AppsScript that sends an e-mail every time a new tweet is posted on a specified Twitter account and encouraged you to copy it and use it on your own. I run it in Google Spreadsheets every 5 minutes and after several weeks I started to receive error messages that the script exceeds a limit of 150 API calls per hour imposed by Twitter. The script always fetches the latest tweets from a Twitter account in one API call per a single run, thus according to my configuration settings it should make a maximum of 12 API calls per hour. Wonder what is wrong here?
SXSW was the source of a flood of real-time information on the web. Information flowed from attendees using social media tools to share what was being discussed, their thoughts and their experiences. This information was amplified further by the information be re-shared (retweeted on Twitter) and by other opinions being expressed about all things SXSW. But how is it that you ensure you don’t miss an important piece of information from within your social media connections or even outside of your normal social media circles? From an earlier post on Cadmus, an algorithmic Twitter feed service, you may be aware of the idea of curation – filtering content to ensure that you don’t miss the most relevant information. But who performs this curation and what roles do technology have in the process?
You’ve spent years sharing your life on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and recently adding photos to the mix with Instagram. If you’re like me and many others, sharing this stuff also serves as a means of archiving things to be able to easily look back later and say, “remember that? That was great.”
In terms of visibility, the SXSW Accelerator is among the most high profile awards that a startup can earn. Earlier this month in Austin, 32 companies presented at the awards in a variety of categories ranging from Entertainment, Social Media, Innovative Web Technologies to News. Our earlier coverage indicated how APIs were central to most of the offerings. One of those APIs took top prize in the news category.
Netflix continues to see tremendous growth in its Netflix API. The API which saw humble beginnings in 2008 has taken a giant leap in usage, ever since Netflix started streaming functionality to devices. In what could be one of the largest usages of a public API, the current number of requests for its API is around 20 billion per month and increasing by the day, forcing Netflix to look at measures to decrease them.
After launching its public beta a year ago, SimpleGeo is making public its storage product the company is based upon. Though the company has offered a few other geo APIs in the interim, the SimpleGeo Storage API geo database solution is the only product for which it charges and it appears to have lowered the price.
Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp, Facebook Places, the list goes on. There’s certainly no shortage of methods to tell people where you are and what you’re doing while you’re there. Startup Whatser, built on the SoGeo API for location-based apps, has jumped into the ring with a different approach to check-in services: to be useful.
This week we had 54 new APIs added to our API directory including a photo filter and effects service, online music distribution database, web-based helpdesk service, twitter long post service, ip camera platform, geolocation service, digital mail service and tickets search service. We looked in-depth at the Aviary Effects API, which we said could help you create your own Instagram. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
This past week 16 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 30 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include DoIt, Google Directions, Kelkoo, Magento, Miso, Pachube, PicPlz, WikiLocation and Yahoo Weather. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook Social Plugins, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (8 APIs, 14 mashups), Mapping (4 APIs, 10 mashups) and Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Gowalla, the location-based social network, is beginning to establish itself as the most generously interoperable of its check-in–offering peers. At a SWSX panel last week about integrated location data, Gowalla co-founder and CTO Scott Raymond indicated that developers would soon even be able to download data en masse from Gowalla for their own manipulation and analysis. When asked by the moderator, Programmable Web Executive Editor Adam DuVander, “Can I download Gowalla’s data,” Raymond responded that providing the option was “definitely on the roadmap.”
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