Voices.com: An API for Voice Talent

John Musser, June 30th, 2008

Voices.comVoices.com is an online marketplace for voice-over talent, where clients looking for actors to provide narration for commercials, documentaries, video games and the like can search for that talent.


OAuth Support at SmugMug

Raymond Yee, June 27th, 2008

SmugmugAs announced on the blog of CEO Don MacAskill, the photo-sharing site SmugMug now supports OAuth.


7 Million Patents via Google Patent Search API

John Musser, June 26th, 2008

Google Patent SearchThe new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code. It is part of the AJAX Search API suite of content-specific Google search utilities such as book search, government search, code search and others.


Google Launches Webmaster Tools API

Raymond Yee, June 25th, 2008

Google Webmaster ToolsAs announced at Google Webmaster Central, Google has released a public API to automate the usage of Google Webmaster Tools. The Webmaster Tools gives web site owners detailed statistics about their site’s “visibility on Google”.


Mobile GPS App Maps Stars and Wins Money

Kevin Farnham, June 24th, 2008

The winners of the Spring 2008 WHERE Developer Contest have been announced. Contestants built applications on the WHERE API to develop GPS aware applications for mobile phones.


Monetize Chat Apps with AIM Money

Kevin Farnham, June 23rd, 2008

AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money. AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform where developers profit from ads they embed into their Open AIM applications.


Cut the Clutter with the AideRSS API

John Musser, June 20th, 2008

aideRSSAideRSS, an RSS feed filtering service, has recently made available a public API. The AideRSS tagline is ‘Read what matters’ and their mission is to “research every story and filter out the noise, allowing you to focus on what matters most.”


DayPI Challenge: Mashing-up the News

Kevin Farnham, June 19th, 2008

The Daylife DayPI Developer Challenge, which offers a US $3,500 first prize and two $750 runner-up prizes, is under way. Developers still have time to enter the competition, and win.


Should the Feds Focus on Reusable Data or User Interfaces?

Raymond Yee, June 18th, 2008

fedsHow should the American federal government make available its data? In a preprint of a forthcoming paper from Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Government Data and the Invisible Hand, researchers argue for the role of remixable data in government.


Build Weather Mashups, Win Prizes

Kevin Farnham, June 17th, 2008

WeatherBug has announced the WeatherBug API Excellence Contest. The contest will run through July 11th and offers up to five contest winners an 8 GB Apple iPod Touch.


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