This past week 18 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 14 different APIs were used to build them. and ome of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Mappy. The most often used APIs this week are DonorsChoose, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 9 mashups), Photos (2 APIs, 3 mashups) and Social (2 APIs, 5 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Street Apps Challenge, the Thomson Reuters sponsored Developer Contest for developing Smart phone based financial applications, has announced its winners. Our previous coverage of the contest asked readers to go and vote for the applications that they liked. This was part of the public voting phase that ended on August 29, 2010. At that time, we covered the two leading applications in terms of votes received, TRAM and Knowledge Storm.
Mobile commerce is a huge business opportunity because, at least in the United States, there is not much infrastructure to support it. That’s why mobile platform company Appcelerator recently announced its integration with the PayPal API. Now iPhone, Android and iPad developers using the paid version of the company’s Titanium framework also get the ability to conduct mobile commerce.
As applications become more useful to our everyday lives, they grow to become even more and more complex. Web applications often do tons of things, combining information in all kinds of interesting and useful ways. The increasing functionality of today’s web puts a strain on developers trying to make everything run faster, smarter, and do more without melting servers in the process.
Facebook developers–all one million of them–can now monetize their apps using PayPal. The new partnership between the companies was announced at PayPal X Innovate, the online payment service’s conference. PayPal’s new micropayments will be integrated into Facebook for its virtual currency.
Already this week we had 10 new APIs added to our API directory including a book sharing service, URL shortening service, local events search services, school finder, weather forecasting service, e-signature and agreement execution service, status message search engine, e-commerce CMS, shopping cart service and money management platform. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
A Digg community member, suspicious of some top links, used the site’s Digg API to uncover a 159 fake accounts. By comparing the stories voted on by these accounts to other stories, he discovered what appeared to be directed fraud and what Digg now calls “tests to find spam vulnerabilities.” We spoke to the community member to learn how he used the site’s API and what he learned.
A little over a year ago, Google released a new product called Google Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables allows you to upload, merge, share, and visualize large tables of tabular data. Basically, we wanted to answer the question “I have a spreadsheet. I want to share it with people and create a map/bar chart/storyline/other visualization.” Google Spreadsheets, while powerful, couldn’t handle the 100 meg upload we allow for Fusion Tables. And, being Google, we also provided something for developers.
A partnership between a stock data site and open data platform Factual points to a potential direction of data sharing. Rather than build an API of its own, a company may choose to distribute its data through another platform, which in turn has the API for developers and other partners to access. That’s the choice StockPup made and if monetization options were in place, others might do the same.
Link shortening is no longer just something you do to fit into tweets or keep emails from wrapping. For many, especially those in marketing, it’s also a great way to track clicks as their content gets spread across the web. BudURL keeps its focus on fulfilling the link shortening needs of businesses. And now it’s added a professional version with custom URLs, analytics and a BudURL.Pro API to access it all.
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