NewsCred optimistically tackles the problem of monetizing journalism in today’s world. With the rise news aggregation sites that hardly pay writers at all, the journalism trade has suffered a great deal. NewsCred looks like a response from some technical boxers fighting from the reporter’s corner. The idea behind the NewsCred Platform API: if you can get your story out to more sources in a more standard and workable format, you can sell your content more effectively.
Popular cloud-stored notes app Evernote recently announced its first contest. Developers can use the Evernote API to build apps that help users remember and track anything using photos and text. The contest is serious, with big prizes: $50,000 to the winner, and $50,000 more in prizes up for grabs.
PeopleBrowsr is another “noise to signal” processor of the social media tidal wave. The Research.ly platform they provide is impressive and engaging. I had to pry myself away from it. It is a tool to answer the question, “who in this social media landscape is relevant on this topic?” but that is just the beginning. The PeopleBrowsr API is a pay to play way to gain social media intelligence.
This week we had 13 new APIs added to our API directory including a bible access and search service, spam detection service, cloud printing service, Chinese social networking site, email marketing campaign tracker, criminal records search service and realtime stock tweets service. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
This past week 16 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 31 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Dribbble, Jamendo and Long URL Please. The most often used APIs this week are Amazon S3, Freebase and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Shopping (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Photos (4 APIs, 4 mashups) and Music (4 APIs, 4 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Rainmaker is a simple and powerful identity API designed to help users get more info about the people in their contact lists. Rainmaker recently announced a developer’s contest for apps built on its Rainmaker API.
RecordedFuture, at first glance, is scary. It’s one of those projects that brings the saying “with great power comes great responsibility” to mind. The company has developed a platform for providing momentum and sentiment ratings around two conceptual abstractions: events & entities. Its system is continually scanning “thousands of high-quality new publications, blogs, public niche sources, trade publications, government web sites, financial database, and more,” then making that available via the Recorded Future News Analytics API. This type of news aggregation and processing is a level of awareness that no single human could otherwise obtain. From a theoretical perspective, having a tool such as this at one’s disposal would create a huge information advantage. Could this be called an information weapon?
With a successful IPO behind it, LinkedIn has its sight now set on bringing more developers to its fold. In April, we covered how LinkedIn is increasing its reach via widgets that you can plug into your site and expanding its Developer program. LinkedIn has added to that by announcing two additions to its LinkedIn API: searching Jobs and Companies.
Proving to be too popular, the Google Translate API will be discontinued December 1 due to what the company characterizes as “extensive abuse.” Effective immediately, rate limits will be greatly reduced. The search giant announced plans to shutter a dozen APIs in all, though most were older and less used than Translate.
A lot of our readers, like me, are news addicts. The latest news matters to a lot of us, and there are some good new mashups to help us find it. Take, for example, Tweetnews.mobi, which shows you the latest breaking news being tweeted through Twitter in realtime:
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