Lots of interesting API and mashup news from Google as part of their global Developer Day: new APIs, new tools, tutorials, and more. Over 5,000 developers in 10 cities. Two very interesting highlights:
Most noteworthy is the announcement of the Google Gears API. What is it? “Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets [...]
So in keeping with this week’s mapping theme, if you look at APIs sorted by type on ProgrammableWeb you can see there are now 44 APIs in the mapping category. That’s a lot of mapping-related APIs and constitutes nearly 10% of all the APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb. They may not all be what you expect. [...]
With O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference in full swing this week there’s been no shortage of online mapping-related news. Highlights range from the Google Maps with Street Views to the launch of the very cool GeoCommons from FortiousOne, the folks behind the GeoIQ API.
API related announcements include:
MapQuest’s new ActionScript API for Adobe Flex and [...]
The Digg API Visualization Contest ends this week but they’ve opened the voting to all Digg members. There are 10 finalists remaining. Just go to the Digg page above and place your vote. We’ve listed three of the leading finalists on ProgrammableWeb. Here they are:
Digg City: Shows the 10 newest popular stories. The more popular [...]
In a groundbreaking move Facebook yesterday formally launched the Facebook Platform at their F8 Event. What is the Facebook Platform? Essentially it allows third-party developers to develop applications that function directly within Facebook itself, not just outside of it as many have done with their existing Facebook API. Build your app, including commercial ones where [...]
Continuing from yesterday’s post on new APIs for maps, photos and email, here are three more new entries to the API directory:
gubb: A web-based application to create, manage and share lists. The gubb API is one of those that has abilities not in the core product, in this case it allows filtering and querying of [...]
Five new APIs have been added to our listings in the past two days bringing the current total up to 441 APIs. Here are three new ones of note that provide web services for urban geo-location, stock photography, and email marketing:
Urban Mapping: Their Urbanware Neighborhoods product is a SOAP-based web service that allows access to [...]
While mashups for shopping and mapping continue to be popular, it’s worth noting that over 25 different APIs were used in mashups listed at ProgrammableWeb in the past two weeks. Here are three interesting ones:
Giveness: Giveness is a social network for philanthropy. Charities can create their own communities to connect with their supporters and fundraise [...]
At today’s Salesforce Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CEO Marc Benioff is announcing Salesforce SOA, a notable move on their part to deliver SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, as an external service on top of their Apex platform. Thus SOA meets SaaS (for more on SOA and SaaS trends see this timely piece by Dion Hinchcliffe). [...]
The big mashup news yesterday came from Microsoft with the invite-only alpha launch of Popfly, their tool for creating mashups without writing code. Using the Pop Creator application users can bulid mashup applications and embeddable widgets. A rich drag-and-drop interface built on Microsoft Silverlight has an extensible component model called “Blocks” with built-in wrappers for [...]
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