There seems to be no end to Application development Challenges. The latest challenge is from SingTel, a leading telecommunications firm based out of Singapore. The SingTel Consumer Apps Challenge is inviting mobile application developers to take part and win prizes.
In this installment of our mashup case study series we speak to Matt Riggott, a developer in Reykjavik, Iceland. He created his music event mashup, Ripped Records, when he lived in Scotland to help him and others discover upcoming concerts. Riggott tells us he believes that showing off this side project to his now-boss “clinched” the job offer and the move to Iceland.
Heidi Harman had an idea for a website to help women find group runs or walks. But Harman has what she calls “highly limited programming skills.” So, she turned to APIs, which she says cut her expenses by about 50% compared to new development.
You know all those mobile applications you use? There’s important data behind where and when you use it. With Titanium+Geo, that data becomes accessible. The new platform for location analytics is a partnership from Appcelerator and FortiusOne, providers of the GeoIQ API that collects and displays the data.
“Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.” Starting with that irresistible tagline, the less-than-one-month-old YouTube Time Machine (YTTM) has become an addictive Internet sensation. Noted film critic Rogert Ebert tweeted “You can get lost in here”–in a good way–and linked to the year 1969 (perhaps because he loves the theatrical trailer for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service).
Ruby developer Wynn Netherland has put together an impressive list of Ruby wrappers for some of the most frequently used APIs on the web. Netherland’s site requires four screens of scrolling to see all 19 of the libraries he has contributed.
Twitter and Facebook are often lauded as shining examples of what a platform does for your business. And for good reason. They have very successful developer programs. But they are also extremely popular services on their own. A developer may not build where there is not the foundation of a loyal user base. But even that has exceptions.
Online diagramming service Creately opened its Creately API to the public this month, and with some surprisingly innovative features. While providing obvious features to make its service available to outside developers, and several “above and beyond” features, such as easy embedding of diagrams, Creately has done something fairly unique: open up its own, web-based file format for other developers to use.
Apps for Californians has announced its winners. The CA.gov-promoted mashup competition launched in June was a collaboration with Google, Microsoft, Center for Digital Government and ProgrammableWeb. There are five winners and two People’s Choice Winners.
This week we had 11 new APIs added to our API directory including a user management service for Amazon Web Services, voice-to-text service, real-time activity stream service and location sharing service. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
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