Techcrunch calls for a full Google Plus Read/Write API. 3Scale names the top 10 API Blogposts of 2012. Plus: Newspaper posts gun owner names and addresses, Amazon S3 adds root domain website hosting and 26 new APIs.
Mobile apps search engine Mimvi has announced a partnership with API marketplace Mashape that will allow the Mimvi API to be marketed, monetized, and distributed through Mashape’s marketplace. Mimvi aims to put its world-class tools in the hands of developers across the globe and empower users to better serve consumer needs.
It’s not your last chance to have your voice heard in the API community. But with 2012 coming to a close, today is your last chance to have that voice be counted in the API community survey. It is an important time for us all to learn more because APIs are growing up. They’re still very new to many, but they’re being taken all the more seriously. So let’s find out about the people that make up the API community by all taking the survey.
Treasure Data’s open source approach to big data and the cloud promises a speedy setup, just days rather than months. The Treasure Data REST API allows organizations to forego having an IT person involved in transiting to the cloud. The set up is Hadoop-based cloud warehousing using Apache Hive.
Of the many APIs we published this week, six were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll launch those six into the spotlight, which included the Flexpaper API. Flexpaper is an open source document viewer. Functionality allows documents to be annotated: highlighted, commented, underlined, and drawn on. The API displays in HTML, HTML5, Adobe Flash or any combination of the three.
This week we had 39 new APIs added to our API directory including a mapping and location-aware data service, sleep monitoring service, health monitoring service, public identity lookup service, and postal return shipping service. Additionally we covered an API that helps simplify software localization. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 5 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 9 different APIs were used to build them. and ome of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Recognize.im. The most often used APIs this week are Cicero, ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript and Recognize.im. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (2 APIs, 2 mashups), Other (1 APIs, 1 mashups) and Photos (1 APIs, 1 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
This weeks roundup of API jobs spans from New York City, NY to Mountain View, CA. We take a step away from San Francisco to look at jobs with Vonage and Tumblr.
The Stipple API is free, has no request limits as of yet, and OAUTH 2 will be supported in the future. According to its website on the API, it is “inspired by REST”. Stipple announces its rare downtime, which is usually used to migrate data, via its twitter account.
POEditor’s goal is simple: “A simple way to translate your software.” POEditor accomplishes this task through a global community of translators who can work on needed translations or launch projects of their own. POEditor developed as a browser-based software localization tool. However, developers can now leverage the platform within existing sites and apps with the POEditor API. The API calls project related data and allows developers to track progress and users to work on projects.
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