We’re always excited to see new approaches to old mashup ideas, so we think you’ll like the three we’ve selected below. It’s not just a job board when it also includes Q&A–specifically geared toward common interview questions. It’s not just a World Cup map when it also attempts to predict the outcome with Twitter. And it’s not just another Last.fm mashup when it’s also a dating site for finding someone with similar interests in music.
ProgrammableWeb has seen many notable milestones since our inception five years ago. We were excited when the repository of APIs grew to 100 entries (now over 2000), when the count of mashups hit 500 (now nearly 5000), and seeing the myriad of ways open APIs have become such a phenomenon. And now today we are excited to say that ProgrammableWeb itself is entering a new phase of growth with the announcement of our acquisition by Alcatel-Lucent.
Microsoft has released a suite of tools to integrate its popular Messenger client into your website. Called Messenger Connect, the new API embeds a Windows Live Messenger chat window on your site, which enables visitors to share links, collaborate, or just stay connected to friends.
Your weekly trip to stock up on life’s necessities just got easier, as long as you live in the UK. WhatDidI uses grocery chain Tesco’s innovative API to help you shop from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
This past week 14 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 15 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Transparency Data and Twilio SMS. The most often used APIs this week are Last.fm, Twilio and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (2 APIs, 6 mashups), Internet (2 APIs, 2 mashups) and Music (2 APIs, 4 mashups).
With a domain like map.pr, you’d think this would be another link shortener. Instead, it uses the Foursquare API to give you a great way to visualize popular places on FourSquare. And, if you’re following the World Cup, you can also use Mappr to find spots frequented by fellow fans.
The defacto standard for online surveys, SurveyMonkey, just added phone polling to its services. What’s remarkable about the addition is that it came via an acquisition. The company now owns Precision Polling, a site for creating and executing polls over the phone.
Yahoo has added to its suite of useful geographic tools with a brand new geocoder called PlaceFinder. This replaces Yahoo’s old geocoding API and joins another 7 Yahoo mapping APIs in our directory for a total of 43 Yahoo APIs.
The internet is the perfect medium for matching supply with demand. You can find your next freelance job or, as Craigslist has been singled out for, find just about anything else (if you know the right euphemisms). Now, with Data Marketplace, you can request or provide datasets covering anything you can think of.
Stack Overflow, the very successful question and answer site for programmers, have now released their own API into public beta. The API actually works with all of the Stack Exchange sites, including serverfault.com and superuser.com, with more sites possibly launching in the future. The API is supported by the site http://stackapps.com.
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