This week we had 58 new APIs added to our API directory including an agile development platform, blogging platform, subscription billing service, search engine results compiler and social marketing platform. In addition we covered an API that enables online retail at any scale. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 7 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 11 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Civic Information, iTunes & App Store Search, Trello and World Weather Online. The most often used APIs this week are Google Checkout, Google Civic Information and Google Maps. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (1 APIs, 1 mashups), Search (1 APIs, 1 mashups) and Video (1 APIs, 1 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Of the many APIs we published this week, seven were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll launch those seven into the spotlight, which included the Treasure Data API. Treasure Data is an open source and fast approach to set up data on the cloud without an IT professional. The Treasure Data API sets up the cloud data warehouse through Hadoop-based cloud warehousing using Apache Hive. The API supports uploads from Java, Ruby, Python and others while also supporting SSL encryption. To learn more about the Treasure Data API visit the Treasure Data site as well as the Treasure Data API blog post.
With 2013 in full swing, it’s a good time to put a bow on the past year in mashups. In 2012, there were over 500 mashups added to our directory. Today we’ll take a look at some of the coolest mashups using APIs from Twitter, Bing, foursquare and more. Read below for more details on each and let us know what other great ones we missed.
Pinterest plans to shutdown its first acquisition PunchFork, including its API. FullContact API nows offers Account Stats endpoint to monitor your usage. Plus: Google Offline Conversion API is both a blessing and a curse, Facebook announces better open graph stories with Flexible Sentences, and 6 new APIs.
A gazzilllion students with their own schedules, grades, and attendance records, is the administrative hairball that every parent sees, but that’s only the tip of any school’s organizational iceberg. Whipplehill helps over 300 k-12 independent schools around the world manage everything from calendars to accessing instructional resources. The SOAP- and REST-based interfaces of the Whipplehill API allow partners to communicate with Whipple’s platform, Podium.
Facebook has just launched Flexible Sentences, a new feature that provides Facebook app developers the ability to control how Open Graph stories appear in Facebook Timelines.
As application development becomes more complex in the era of the cloud organizations are finding that it’s not so much the tools they are using that are the problem but rather the lack of a coordinated approach to managing the build, test and deploy process.
3scale discusses their fundamental principle behind any API and what needs to be considered when creating an API. Facebook promises developers that they’ll make breaking changes on an easier to anticipate schedule. Plus: Cloud computing’s seven deadly sins and 4 new APIs.
The world’s largest social network gets a bad rap for changes to its Facebook API. Developers complain that their apps break and even called it the most broken API in a survey. Yet the company has worked to change that and today vowed to only announce “breaking changes” every quarter. You’ll only need to scramble to fix your app four times per year.
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