Continuing on from yesterday’s post about new APIs, here are a few more of note added to ProgrammableWeb over the past two weeks (FYI, all the APIs can be sorted by date):
FraudLabs Credit Card Fraud Detection API: Credit card verification services via an API.
Bluedot API: The Seattle-based startup focused on community-based content sharing has an [...]
New APIs continue to arrive at a rate of 1 every 2 days here in the ProgrammableWeb API listings. Now up to a total of 281. Here’s a rundown of some of the newer entries over the past two weeks.
Akismet API: Automatic Kismet, or Akismet, is a collaborative effort to track and prevent blog comment [...]
There are now 30 games-related mashups on ProgrammableWeb. Some are of course better than others. The most common APIs used are Google Maps and Flickr, although there’s an Amazon one thrown-in as well. Here’s a rundown of some of them:
FlickrSudoku: Mashup of a popular online sudoku player and Flickr. Sudoku player courtesy sudoku.com.au.
Fastr: A fun [...]
Continuing the series on books for mashup developers — last week Flickr Mashup Books — here is a quick summary of books that can help you build mashups with the various Amazon APIs.
Note that the Amazon APIs are quite popular with 94 Amazon e-commerce API mashups listed at ProgrammableWeb. And you can use the [...]
Over the past couple weeks the folks at RealNetworks’ Rhapsody have made some product announcements which have an API component, but that API piece hasn’t received a lot of press yet. Most of the initial buzz has been about the new devices like the upcoming SanDisk Sansa and the Sonos 2 home stereo device (with [...]
This fall the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting will celebrate its 40th anniversary with the publication of a book, Scenes From The City, and a series cultural events across the city. But in addition they have created an excellent web mashup: Scenes from the City Interactive Map. It’s a Yahoo! [...]
Today the number of mashups on ProgrammableWeb hit the 1,001 milestone. The overall distribution in terms of topic (tags) of course has maps with the lion’s share at 46%, then next in line are photo (9%), search (9%), shopping (7%), sports (5%), travel (4%), messaging (4%) and news (4%). Here’s today’s summary pie chart:
Beyond the [...]
Want to learn how to code your own mashups? Try reading a book. There’s a growing library of books available now that are either fully or partially dedicated to programming mashups. I’ll start a series of posts on these books starting with a few for the Flickr API:
Building Flickr Applications with PHP: by Rob Kunkle [...]
Continuing from yesterday’s note on mashup contest news, there are more contest happenings: Google recently announced the winners for their desktop gadgets contest for mashups built using their Google Desktop API. Lots of entries there as well. Winner is the handy diGGGadget that brings Digg directly on your desktop: “Browse all the topics and categories. [...]
UK-based Talis who have announced the winners in their Mashuping Up the Library Competition 2006. The contest was intended to “openly encourage innovation in the display, use, and reuse of data from and about libraries.” They had 18 entries, all of which are listed over in their forum (and will get listed here at [...]
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