This week we had 8 new APIs added to our API directory ranging from comics, to Videos, to Japanese game search and Romanian geocoding. Of course the big API story of the week came from Google and their Google Wave announcement. The other new APIs in this set once again represent a diverse lot — here’s the full list:
This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 35 different APIs were used to build them. Some interesting or less frequently used APIs that were mashed-up this week include lyrics APIs like Lyricsfly and LyricWiki; lots of e-commerce APIs like Oodle, PriceGrabber, CNET, Yahoo Shopping, Shopping.com, and Shopzilla; messaging and telephony APIs like Skype and Twilio; as well as plenty of Google APIs including Google Translate. The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
During the keynote presentation today at Google I/O, Google announced the private beta release of Wave (our Google Wave API Profile), a new online communication and collaboration tool that allows for real time information exchange and much more.
Try out your map mashup by playing in the sandbox. Better yet, easily switch between Google, Yahoo and several other mapping providers.
Google has just announced that a new version of its Google Maps API (our Google Maps API Profile) is available as a beta release. The new version of the popular API has been developed from the ground up as a modularized set of JavaScript libraries focused on improving load speed and performance. At the Google IO Conference, the Google Maps API team indicated that the new API offers several advantages over the previous API, which originally was not designed to be as extensible or feature rich as it has become.
Today at Google I/O, Google announced the release of a new set of embeddable JavaScript widgets that allow users to include various types of Google applications on web pages. The new Google Web Elements provide a new way for users to enhance and expand the functionality of web sites and web pages without the need to develop or deploy any code.
If you’ve ever wanted to know what’s happening with your web site as it’s happening, you may want to take a look at real-time web site analytics provider Chartbeat. It’s a new and very slick service that provides a rich set of real-time analytics. They offer a range of useful tools like their Real-time Dashboard (shown below), traffic alerts (ex: get an email if you’ve got an above average burst of site visitors), and their API (our chartbeat API Profile).
As far as web search tools go, few have generated as much hype as Wolfram Alpha. The service, which bills itself as a “computational knowledge engine,” differs from search engines such as Google, in that it does not return lists of web pages. Rather, Wolfram Alpha attempts to calculate answers to user queries. For example, a query of “los angeles county median household income” will return the result “$43,518.”
What API was used most often in the mashups added on ProgrammableWeb? Once again, it was the Twitter API, used in 9 of the 19 mashups added. Overall, 18 different APIs were used to build the newest mashups. New or less often seen APIs used include the pho.to API, TwitPic API, Tagalus API, and Yelp API. The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Here are 9 new APIs just added to our API directory. A couple that we covered earlier this week came from the big name API providers via Google’s new Maps Data API and Yahoo launching the Placemaker API. Also in the headlines is our new entry for the Wolfram Alpha API. Other interesting new directory entries include the TweetShrink API for helping shrink those just-too-long twitter tweets, the UK Civil Service API for finding UK civil service jobs, and the Tinysong API for find where a song is available for streaming online. More on all 9 interesting new APIs below:
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