If you are as optimistic as we were about Twitter’s location features, you should be downright giddy now. Twitter has acquired the company–and staff–behind one of the most innovative mapping-related APIs. Mixer Labs’ GeoAPI , previously known as TownMe, hosts your geographic data and allows spatial queries such as “find the closest location” (for more see our earlier TownMe news coverage and our TownMe API profile).
In today’s globalised world most products you see on the store shelf were probably made from parts sourced from all over the world. As we become more aware of the environmental impact of transporting these parts, it is important to have easily accessible information on how a final product comes together. Sourcemap is a project of the Media Lab at MIT, and it allows users to easily visualise what components go into a product, how they are shipped, and what the environmental impacts are.
This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 14 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Bing Maps and Menu Mania. The most often used APIs this week are Google AJAX Libraries, Google Maps, and Twitter. And the most frequently used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 6 mashups), Internet (3 APIs, 3 mashups), and Photos (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
This week we had 7 new APIs added to our API directory ranging from an API for managing email marketing campaigns, an API for searching for available domain names, an API for finding facvicons, an API for Google Sites, a ringtone search API, a social recruiting platform API, and an API for creating embeddable maps (which we covered in Map Any Image With New UMapper Release). Below are details on each of these APIs:
If you enjoy creating fun, interactive maps, you’ll get lost in the latest functionality from UMapper (our UMapper mashup profile). With it, you can include any image–even one that isn’t a map–in its Flash viewer.
Ready to entertain those tired eyes? The mashups we’ve chosen all offer a unique ways to look at ordinary content. In one case, it’s a way to visualize how quickly tweets are shooting around the Twitterverse. Another brings what might be all of the graffiti multimedia on the web to one place. And finally, enjoy the anachronism of watching your YouTube videos in an old timey television.
Developers working on mashups may want to take note of a recent announcement by Ford that it intends to make SYNC, it’s on-board vehicle system, accessible to developers next year. The general implication is that millions of vehicles could become platforms for all kinds of mashups and apps that integrate with various parts of the SYNC system, including its stereo and navigation modules.
Somewhere out there is a singer-songwriter who could use your code. And who knows, that artist–or one of the other more than 10,000 on ArtistData–might even pay you for it.
ArtistData is a site to help musicians store their information and reach out to fans in the shortest amount of time. For example, enter tour dates once, then publish to MySpace, your website and send local media alerts.
This past week 17 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 15 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Wave. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twilio, and Twitter. And the most frequently used types of APIs were Mapping (2 APIs, 5 mashups) and Social. The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
There has been a lot of geo-related news lately, and in part that’s due to the ongoing release of new APIs, features, functionality, and data for mapping and location platforms. The latest news is the addition of the recently released StreetSide panoramas and enhanced Bird’s Eye imagery to the Bing Maps API. A little over a week after these new features were added to Bing Maps they have now been exposed via several methods in the Bing Maps API (our Bing Maps API Profile).
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