In a world where real-time data streams are becoming much more common, and with the volume of that data continuing to increase, it makes sense that a framework would be developed to increase the ease at which that data can be processed. Yahoo! S4 isn’t the first such framework to be concieved, or even open sourced, but it is likely to massively increase awareness that such frameworks exist, what problems they may help solve and get developers thinking about how they could use the technology and potentially increase the likelihood of somebody moving S4-like capabilities into the cloud and offering it as as service.
Deal and Coupon sites have garnered a lot of attention this year. Groupon, the most popular of them, has been in the news plenty due to rumors about Google showing an interest for them. Is there any chance for you as a developer to get access to huge dataset of deals and coupons, possibly containing Groupon deals to and offer it to users of your application? 8coupons.com definitely thinks so and it has launched the 8coupons API for exactly that purpose.
Civic minded hackers from all over the world recently organized themeselves for action as a part of the International Open Government Hackathon. The team from Portland, Oregon decided to make use of a platform called ScraperWiki that can grab data from government websites and turn into more consumable formats via the ScraperWiki API. Their work is an excellent example of developer ingenuity at unlocking data that is hard to use but still very useful.
If you are a Geo Developer and have been struggling to get access to location data that is of high quality and free, this news could be music to your ears. SimpleGeo, the location services platform, earlier this month announced two products that might just fit the bill and give you the location data on which you could easily build location based applications.
Sentiment Analysis is a growing feature of several applications that we see today. The trend is not surprising given the fact that the billions of messages per day are flowing in and out of several services on the web. Twitter, being one of the largest generators of data, is seeing its data mined in various ways to provide everything from movie reviews, predicting the result of a sporting event and much more.
This week we had 64 new APIs added to our API directory including a visual CAPTCHA service, genealogy service, user profile service, sentiment analysis for twitter service and cloud storage service. We also covered two of these APIs with full blog posts. We looked into iFixIt, the World’s First Fix-it API and deadpooled Google Base when it was axed in favor of two new shopping APIs. Below is more detail on all 64 of these new APIs.
This past week 10 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 21 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Geocoding, KooKoo and Recurly. The most often used APIs this week are Twilio, Twilio SMS and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 4 mashups), Telephony (3 APIs, 5 mashups) and Video (3 APIs, 4 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
We have seen an explosion in the number of APIs that are now available to developers. It seems like almost everyone has one and those that don’t are scrambling to get one. The focus now is clearly not on just having an API, but having a “great API.” Two excellent presentations from Cloudstock, held earlier this month, give you an overview on the current state of the API market and tips on what makes a great API.
The Twitter API is one of the widely used APIs in our directory. It is also one of the fastest changing, with updates going out to its developer list on what feels like a weekly basis. Some recent changes are especially big and mean an end to the GeoAPI, which Twitter acquired a year ago.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading infrastructure as a service platform is now making it easier for its core platform services to be available directly for use in mobile applications. It has wrapped its Storage, Database and Messaging APIs into easy to use Mobile SDKs for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms, so that mobile developers can easily integrate and invoke those services directly from their applications.
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