Your local newspaper probably uses maps on its site. If it doesn’t, it will soon. As newspapers look online for readership (and thus, revenue), they look for new ways to show information related to the places they cover.
This past week 20 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 24 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Goodreads, Norway Weather, Playme, Rezgo, Tweetmeme, and the USGS Elevation Query Service. The most often used APIs this week are Amazon eCommerce, Google Maps, and Twitter. And the most frequently used types of APIs were Mapping (6 APIs, 14 mashups), and Social (3 APIs, 7 mashups), Internet (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups.
Want new APIs? This week saw an interesting mix of new entries in our API directory including a service for publishing and accessing location-relevant content, a simple API to get a JSON-formatted list of people you tweet most, a variety of APIs based on Clickatell’s SMS services, a video API providing search to over 300 million online videos, and a real estate listing search API for Multiple Listing Service (MLS) properties.
We’re keeping things friendly with this latest roundup of fun, new mashups. Do something creative and different with your Facebook friends, like put their mugs on a mug or find a job near them. And there’s always some fun to be had with a website scoring tool.
Okay, you can admit it. Either you love the Twilight books and movies, or you pretend to hate them for fear that you might actually dig it. In any case, you certainly have a Twilight fan you can send to this virtual Twilight tour of Forks, Washington, and the surrounding locations from the movies (click “explore locations”).
With the recent explosion of cloud computing services, developers now have more opportunities than ever to take advantage of enterprise-scale computing platforms. However, most cloud computing services, such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), have unique and incompatible APIs. This has provided a challenge for organizations wanting to develop in-house applications that can later be seamlessly deployed directly to Amazon’s service when necessary. For example, Ubuntu Server, a Linux-based operating system supported by Europe’s Canonical Ltd, is the most widely deployed operating system on EC2, yet there has been no way for developers to create private, EC2-compatible cloud computing systems internally with Ubuntu.
The Great American Hackathon from Sunlight Labs is coming December 12-13. Unlike most API-hacking events, this one is taking place all over the United States, in at least seven cities. The idea is to encourage developers to work together and jump start work on projects using government data.
Perhaps your most important online network of business contacts is now programmable. LinkedIn launched its API (our LinkedIn API profile), which allows developers to access a user’s connections and anyone’s profile data, in addition to several other features. Though some are saying “finally,” it’s clearly not too late for LinkedIn, who aims to be the professional networking platform.
Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they’ve added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of Maps V3, which was released in May, the team took a fresh approach, so some interfaces have changed.
This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 20 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include GamePro, Goodreads, and Maponics. The most often used APIs this week are Google App Engine, Google Maps, and Twitter.
Shopping (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 9 mashups), and Search (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
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