Coming soon are three noteworthy O’Reilly conferences that should be of interest to API and mashup developers, and thanks to their sponsorship, ProgrammableWeb has a pair of free tickets to their Graphing Social Patterns East next month as well as discounts for all three events.
arXiv.org is an online archive of nearly a half million science, math, and computer science research documents.
Reuters Labs has announced the release of their new Spotlight API. Spotlight is a non-commercial platform designed to “allow users to innovate and develop their ideas by harnessing the content Reuters publishes.”
In yet another interesting API move, Google has just released a simple but useful API for managing AJAX APIs called the AJAX Libraries API. The goal is to help simplify the lives of Ajax developers by providing a centralized, flexible but consistent way to access many of the most commonly used Ajax libraries. In effect Google becomes a content distribution network for these JavaScript libraries.
Here’s an interesting online business you may not have heard of: Betfair. Who are they? They’re the world’s leading online betting exchange, a concept they helped pioneer back in 2000, and now have annual revenues over 180 million pounds Sterling.
Demonstrating a new way to build commercial applications on an API, Google’s YouTube team have announced a new partnership with Sony that uses the YouTube API to allow players to record gameplay and upload clips directly to YouTube from their game console
Last week AOL announced the winners of their Open AIM contest and awarded prizes totaling $100,000 in the process. Held in conjunction with TopCoder, the nine first place winners received $10,000 each.
Last week, Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash, the latest extension of their extremely popular Google Maps API.
Amazon made headlines back in January when they announced that their Amazon Web Services APIs like S3 and EC2 consumed more bandwidth than their own global web sites. Now there’s a chart to show more.
Somewhat lost in the buzz of the announcement of Google Health, is the fact that Google’s also launched the Health Data API. This new API provides a variety of health and medical related functionality.
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