86 posts from: Programmable Web
OAuth-only Twitter: What it Means for JavaScript Apps
(Indexed 2010-08-31):
[Image]Today could be the last day for some web applications built purely with client-side JavaScript and the Twitter API. According to Twitter, Basic Authentication has been permanently shut off, as promised. While the move should bring better security for many users, it will also make building JavaScript apps without server-side support for OAuth practically impossible due to security issues.
Geo Grandfather ESRI Makes Strides on the Web
(Indexed 2010-08-23):
[Image]Most of the time we write about mapping, it admittedly includes Google Maps (we list over 2000 Google Maps mashups). However, ESRI, the biggest supplier of geographic tools for the enterprise, has made huge strides this year with its tools, including its own web mapping platform, ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript API.
20+ Google JavaScript APIs in One Playground
(Indexed 2010-08-11):
[Image]Get ready for slides and monkey bars. You can now access nearly two dozen Google JavaScript APIs in the AJAX playground. YouTube, Friend Connect and a host of options join Calendar, Blogger and, of course, Maps.
Is JSON the Developers Choice?
(Indexed 2010-08-11):
Once upon a time there was the great debate over JSON vs XML. The past few years have seen JSONs popularity rise despite XML (and other formats) being well-established. Our own statistics on ProgrammableWeb show a significant increase in the number of JSON APIs over 2009/2010. During 2009 there were only 191 JSON APIs registered. So far in 2010 there are already 223.
37 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Bing, Facebook, Google, Twilio, Twitter, Weather Channel and YouTube
(Indexed 2010-06-20):
[Image] This past week 16 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 37 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Directions, Google Maps Elevation, Google OpenID, TourCMS Marketplace and Twilio SMS. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, TourCMS Marketplace and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (12 APIs, 17 mashups), Photos (5 APIs, 6 mashups) and Social (4 APIs, 9 mashups). The list ...(truncated)...
Twitter Goes Anywhere With New API
(Indexed 2010-04-19):
[Image]Last month Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced Twitter Anywhere, but it wasn't exactly clear what it was. Now the microblogging platform, which looks pretty busy with all its announcements centered around its developer conference, is sharing more details about the API that is part display widget and part external login, all controlled via JavaScript.
28 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, eBay, Facebook, Fedex, Google, Salesforce, Yahoo and YouTube
(Indexed 2010-03-06):
[Image] This past week's new mashups in our mashup directory combined 28 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google OpenID, Heyzap, Menu Mania, Microsoft adCenter, RescueTime, RPX, Windows Live ID Web Authentication and Yahoo Search Marketing. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Facebook and Google Ajax Search. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Security (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Video (3 APIs, 3 mashups).
YouTube Updates API and Introduces New JSON-C Format
(Indexed 2010-02-15):
[Image]YouTube have announced that that they are making a notable change to their YouTube API. The API, which returns results in both XML and JSON, is getting an upgrade on the JSON side, and the change is different enough that they are giving the format a new name JSON-C.
14 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Flickr, Freebase, Google, Twilio, TwitPic, and Twitter
(Indexed 2009-12-27):
[Image]This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 14 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Bing Maps and Menu Mania. The most often used APIs this week are Google AJAX Libraries, Google Maps, and Twitter. And the most frequently used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 6 mashups), Internet (3 APIs, 3 mashups), and Photos (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Get JavaScript Access to Googles Flash Maps API
(Indexed 2009-12-17):
[Image]When you want animated maps or zippier feedback than Google's JavaScript mapping API can provide, you can use the Flash Maps API. Yes, even Google acknowledges that its popular, full-featured platform can't do everything. Using the Flash API used to mean you needed to know Flash. Now, you can get the benefit, but still program in JavaScript.
BigOven Bakes Recipes in the Cloud
(Indexed 2009-11-16):
[Image]Your next meal could be served up by BigOven's new API. The comprehensive service for those who like to cook provides more than 170,000 recipes in XML or JSON format (our BigOven API profile). From there, you can display it however you want, though there's a yet to be determined fee for commercial applications.
Jigsaw Launches API for Company Contact Database
(Indexed 2009-10-28):
[Image]Jigsaw, has announced additions to their RESTful JSON and XML API as well as a developer program designed to enable developers to query, share, and resell Jigsaws community-contributed database of company data and contact information. They came onto the API scene in June 2008 with their declaration of "Data Independence Day", which focused on providing free access to their database of company information (more details at our Jigsaw API Profile).
OpenStreetMap Joins the Static Maps Club
(Indexed 2009-10-12):
[Image]The wiki of maps, Open Street Map, has gone static. Its Open Street Map API now has an option to show a static map version, rather than a JavaScript "slippy" map. The more interactive version is still available, but could be more than is needed for many uses.
4 New APIs: Wine, Whois and Web Site Monitoring
(Indexed 2009-10-03):
Since our recent update on new APIs like Google Sidewiki, online storage, content analysis, and social search, we've been adding about 10 new APIs per week to our directory. Four of these news APIs include an API that lets you add a shopping cart to any web site, an API to access web site monitoring data, a handy API for accessing the Internet whois service to get data in XML or JSON, and an API that can lets you get data on over 40,000 wines. Here are more details on each of these new web servi...(truncated)...
ESRIs New Web Mapping APIs Site Is Full of Goodies
(Indexed 2009-09-22):
[Image]GIS software and services provider ESRI recently launched a new Web Mapping APIs site that serves as a comprehensive gateway for developers to learn more about the company's web-based APIs, including its ArcGIS JavaScript API (our ArcGIS JavaScript API Profile).
4 New APIs: VoiceXML, Virtual Workforces, Language Identification, and URL Shortening
(Indexed 2009-09-20):
[Image]In addition to the 4 new APIs we outlined yesterday, we had four others just added to our API directory. These include an API for creating a virtual workforce, an API that can identify what language you are speaking, a SIP-based voice platform service for VoiceXML apps, and new URL shortening service. Here are more details on each of these new APIs:
What Language Are You Speaking? Theres an API for That
(Indexed 2009-09-15):
[Image]Did you know that leraar is a Dutch word? A new API, LangID can help you with those pesky language identification problems. Feed it a string of text and the API returns the name of the language, its ISO code and even an image of the flag for a country that speaks the language (the latter could be a hot-button political issue--watch out). You can choose your output as either XML or browser-friendly JSON. (More details at our LangID API profile.)
25 Different APIs Used in 7 Days: YouTube, Twitter, BBC, Flickr, Google and ESRI
(Indexed 2009-09-12):
[Image]This past week 14 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 25 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript, Hyves, Meetup, PeoplePond, and RadioTime.The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twitter, and YouTube. And the most often types of APIs used were Mapping (8 APIs, 11 mashups), Social (3 APIs, 4 mashups), and Music (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashup...(truncated)...
MapQuest Zooming Away With Its Features
(Indexed 2009-08-25):
[Image]It may be a long way from first place in API mindshare, but web mapping pioneer MapQuest has been making major upgrades to its Flash and JavaScript APIs (our MapQuest API profile).
Customize Your Site Search Via the Google AJAX Search API
(Indexed 2009-08-11):
[Image]Google's Jeff Scudder has a new post on the Google AJAX APIs blog that details how CSS styling can be used in conjunction with the Google AJAX Search API (our Google AJAX Search API Profile) to customize the look and feel of the search interface and search results. Though it may not seem that important, the aesthetics of your site's search interface, and the way the results are displayed, are both important elements that can influence the experience of your site's visitors.
Is Free Enough For ESRI to Gain Web Mapping Traction?
(Indexed 2009-07-31):
[Image]ESRI has matched the price Google, Yahoo and other mapping providers have been charging for their APIs. The leading GIS company made its JavaScript API completely free. Now the question is: will anyone care?
Mapify a MediaWiki with New Extension
(Indexed 2009-07-28):
[Image]The project that runs Wikipedia has added improved mapping extensions that let you embed Yahoo or Google Maps within your Wiki pages. Special markup is translated to API calls, which keeps out JavaScript that would be required if creating maps directly.
Hidden Google Feature Shows User Location
(Indexed 2009-07-27):
[Image]You may already have access to your user's location and not know it yet. If you use Google's Ajax API loader to access Maps, Search or Feeds, you're one line of JavaScript away from knowing the user's country, city, or even a nearby latitude/longitude point.
Google Maps Knows Where You Are
(Indexed 2009-07-13):
[Image]The world's most popular map service can now tell you where you are. Google Maps has now added a feature that uses JavaScript to geolocate your current whereabouts.
Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API
(Indexed 2009-06-25):
[Image]Google has just released a new Virtual Keyboard API as part of its AJAX Language API that should enrich sites that use forms to collect information from multi-lingual users. This new API (our Google Virtual Keyboard API Profile) allows users to input text into form fields in a variety of languages (and corresponding characters) without the need for a physical keyboard or specialized software.
Developing Search Friendly Applications
(Indexed 2009-06-12):
Search engines such as Google have been making life a lot easier for developers. They have huge development resources that startups just don't have, and when they make their APIs available, everyone benefits. But when it comes to using APIs, especially AJAX APIs, it can be a challenge for developers to use these in a search-friendly way.
Google Maps API v3 Launched
(Indexed 2009-05-27):
[Image]Google has just announced that a new version of its Google Maps API (our Google Maps API Profile) is available as a beta release. The new version of the popular API has been developed from the ground up as a modularized set of JavaScript libraries focused on improving load speed and performance. At the Google IO Conference, the Google Maps API team indicated that the new API offers several advantages over the previous API, which originally was not designed to be as extensible or feature...(truncated)...
Google Launches Web Elements: Easy Copy and Paste Widgets
(Indexed 2009-05-27):
[Image]Today at Google I/O, Google announced the release of a new set of embeddable JavaScript widgets that allow users to include various types of Google applications on web pages. The new Google Web Elements provide a new way for users to enhance and expand the functionality of web sites and web pages without the need to develop or deploy any code.
Scrapplet Launches New Mashup Tool with OpenAjax Support
(Indexed 2009-05-19):
[Image]Scrapplet, a service that's a cross between a Netvibes-style start page builder and a browser-based mashup environment, this week released a set of new features for integrating web-based content within the browser. The basic service allows users to build their own web pages by dragging-and-dropping content like text, video, widgets, feeds, etc from other web sites.
3 Great Store Locators from Big Brands
(Indexed 2009-04-27):
[Image]Every company with more than about a dozen locations needs some way for customers to find the nearest store. Most of these features are showing their age, with tiny, non-interactive maps. Here are three store locators that shine by using a JavaScript mapping API, custom location markers and a little ingenuity.
Google Announces Java Support for App Engine
(Indexed 2009-04-08):
[Image]Today at its latest Campfire One event, Google announced major updates to Google App Engine, their scalable cloud computing platform for web applications. App Engine developers will soon be able to create web-scale applications using standard Java APIs, and will be able to create AJAX components using Google's Web Toolkit. Other major features include cron support for scheduling tasks, tools for securely accessing and importing data, and a new Google development plugin for the Eclipse IDE...(truncated)...
Microsoft Releases Machine Translation API
(Indexed 2009-03-23):
[Image]If you've ever wanted to programmatically translate text from one language to another directly from code, there's a new web service from Microsoft Research you might want to try. It's the recently announced new Microsoft Translator AJAX API and web widget. The API provides automated translation of web pages and portions of web pages into 12 different languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Russian. The Microsoft Research team plans to add more la...(truncated)...
Googles JavaScript APIs Get a Playground
(Indexed 2009-01-23):
[Image]Google has announced the release of a new AJAX API Playground that is sure to make life much easier for developers working with Google's JavaScript APIs. The Playground is full of various types of JavaScript samples, including samples for the following APIs:
OpenSocial Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby Libraries Released
(Indexed 2008-12-29):
[Image]OpenSocial recently had its first year anniversary, and the specification and APIs are growing in popularity. And now, courtesy of the OpenSocial team, several new client libraries are available for leveraging server-to-server APIs. This gives developers easy access to building OpenSocial apps in languages other than JavaScript.
Mashups Get a Hosted Database with NextDB.net
(Indexed 2008-12-05):
[Image]Developers looking to add database functionality to their mashups will be interested in a new JavaScript API for real relational database programming from NextDB.net. The NextDB.net hosted database seeks to eliminate the overhead associated with server-side coding, database management and additional hardware installation (see our NextDB.net API Profile).
Microsoft Releases Much Enhanced Live Search API 2.0
(Indexed 2008-11-19):
[Image]Microsoft has released a significantly enhanced version of their Live Search API. Live Search API 2.0 offers increased flexibility in terms of API protocols (REST/XML and JSON are now offered, in addition to the original SOAP interface), new tools, sample code, and complete documentation.
Echo Nest API Delivers Machine Listening
(Indexed 2008-11-05):
[Image]The Echo Nest API, a suite of web services for music search and recommendations, officially launched at DEMOfall08. As they say: " Input any song and get an XML description of its content." It's a very intriguing API that's increasingly attracting the notice of the developer community. Paul Lamere exemplifies the excitement Echo Nest is eliciting in his recent Sun blogs post "The Echo Nest Developer's API.
Map Mashups Using ESRI Seen in the Wild
(Indexed 2008-10-10):
[Image]As we reported earlier this year, ESRI, a leading GIS software provider, released a public version of its ArcGIS JavaScript API that allows developers to integrate GIS functionality with web applications. Now ESRI has added a new ArcGIS Server Live User Sites section to its web site that showcases various geospatial solutions, several of which use the ArcGIS JavaScript API (see our ESRI API profile).
Microsoft Virtual Earth Adds SOAP, More 3D, and Weather
(Indexed 2008-09-25):
[Image]Some exciting changes with Virtual Earth as Microsoft has announced the release of a new SOAP web service for Virtual Earth and an update to the Virtual Earth Map Control. The Virtual Earth AJAX Control SDK and the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK have both been updated as well.
Google Chrome Support Added to Googles JavaScript Library
(Indexed 2008-09-17):
[Image]The Google Data APIs Team has announced that its JavaScript Client Library now supports both its new Chrome browser as well as Apple's Safari (both browsers are built on the WebKit open source browser).
Yahoos Best BOSS Search Mashups
(Indexed 2008-08-14):
[Image]Last month Yahoo! announced BOSS, its Build Your Own Search Service, which "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search." The REST API allows developers to get results in XML or JSON format for web, news, and image search queries. Recently the official Yahoo! Search Blog showcased a handful of the best mashups that third-party developers created in BOSS's first month of operati...(truncated)...
5 Ajax Libraries to Enhance Your Mashup
(Indexed 2008-07-28):
[Image]Earlier this year Google released its AJAX Libraries API as a content distribution network and loading architecture for some of the more popular open source JavaScript frameworks (our Ajax Libraries API Profile).
New Mapping API via ESRI ArcGIS
(Indexed 2008-07-14):
[Image]ESRI, a leading GIS software provider, has released a public version of its ArcGIS JavaScript API that allows developers to integrate GIS functionality with web applications.
7 Million Patents via Google Patent Search API
(Indexed 2008-06-26):
[Image]The new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code. It is part of the AJAX Search API suite of content-specific Google search utilities such as book search, government search, code search and others.
Goosh.org, the Unofficial Google Shell
(Indexed 2008-06-11):
[Image]Yesterday's Mashup of the Day was a fun one for those who miss the good old days of command shells, goosh.org, "the unofficial google shell". Developer Stefan Grothkopp coded this on top of the Google Ajax Search API to give you a command shell for interacting with Google search queries.
Googles New AJAX Distribution Network
(Indexed 2008-05-28):
[Image]In yet another interesting API move, Google has just released a simple but useful API for managing AJAX APIs called the AJAX Libraries API. The goal is to help simplify the lives of Ajax developers by providing a centralized, flexible but consistent way to access many of the most commonly used Ajax libraries. In effect Google becomes a content distribution network for these JavaScript libraries.
4 Spy Mashups - Watch in Realtime
(Indexed 2008-05-09):
[Image]If you want to see in realtime what's going on Digg you can use their digg spy page. This popular Digg feature uses a dynamic Ajax UI to let you see diggs as they happen. And now it serves as a model for a growing number of mashups that use web APIs to give you a realtime window into activity on a variety of services.
Googles New Visualization API
(Indexed 2008-04-01):
[Image]Besides releasing the new AJAX Translation API, Google also launched the Google Visualization API, a JavaScript API which lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display using a large selection of visualizations.
Google Releases Language Translation API
(Indexed 2008-03-20):
[Image]As of today, the powerful Google Translate service that lets you translate between 13 different languages and 29 language pairs is now available as a handy JavaScript-based API.
Are You Logged-into Google?
(Indexed 2008-03-07):
Are you logged into Google right now? That's the question JavaScript guru Kent Brewster set-out to see if he could answer in another one of his eye-opening series of how-to-tell investigations.
Google Releases Static Maps API
(Indexed 2008-02-25):
[Image]If you want a dead-simple way to create custom maps without needing to worry about JavaScript or programming then the just announced Google Static Maps API may be your answer.
Use Bury Recorder To Watch Digg Buries
(Indexed 2008-01-24):
Another interesting mashup added to our listings recently is the Digg Bury Recorder which is built on top of data pulled from Digg Spy. For a bit of the why and how, creator David Hurth at Ajaxonomy gives this introduction:If you have been using the popular service Digg you know that it is very easy [...]
New APIs: Email, Travel, Recommendations
(Indexed 2007-12-26):
There has been an uptick in new APIs added to our directory and we now have 579 API’s listed. We continue to see lots of variety in the API styles (REST, SOAP, JavaScript) as well as the markets (email, e-commerce, reference, others). Here’s a quick roundup of three of the latest:MailChimp API: Last month we [...]
How to Tell if a User is Logged In to Netflix
(Indexed 2007-12-20):
Even wonder if the sites you log into on a regular basis might inadvertently let any of that information leak? If you want to see a very real, interactive example of just how prevalent this might be, just check-out JavaScript guru Kent Brewster’s series on “How to Tell if a User is Logged In to [...]
Douglas Crockford on the Mashup Problem
(Indexed 2007-10-01):
If you’re at all interested on the future of JavaScript as a mashup platform, be sure to watch this engaging talk by Douglas Crockford on Gears and the Mashup Problem (for those of you who don’t know Douglas he’s currently senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo and is arguably the foremost expert on JavaScript and JSON [...]
Best New Mashups: Digg and Adobe AIR
(Indexed 2007-09-25):
Just a quick roundup of some of the more interesting mashups added to our listings recently, one that lets you widgetize Digg and another that showcases Adobe AIR using Flickr and Yahoo services:Digg in a Box: An interactive Digg badge in a one-line JavaScript include. Highly configurable, including discussion topics, popular stories, zoom to view [...]
Google Advances JavaScript APIs
(Indexed 2007-09-21):
In a notable but understated move, Google announced yesterday the availability of the GData JavaScript Client Library for Calendar. While on the surface this may seem like just another wrapper for the Google Calendar API like the ones provided for PHP and Java it’s actually a lot more interesting. Why? Because it’s one of the [...]
YouTube API Reborn
(Indexed 2007-08-30):
Developers of web mashups using video content now have some more powerful tools at their disposal. As announced this week, the YouTube team have overhauled their entire API. Rather than the older REST/XML-RPC API it’s now a member of the GData family of protocols. Our YouTube API profile has been updated accordingly. This is a [...]
Facebooks Unique Ajax Support
(Indexed 2007-08-08):
The Facebook Platform is quietly moving beyond its initial, somewhat limited “mock ajax” roots for platform UI development. They’ve quietly released a beta version of FBJS, Facebook JavaScript. FBJS is an interesting twist on how to allow richer intereactivity without requiring developers to resort to using iframes (which are inherently more isolated from the full [...]
Tibcos Ajax Mashup Contest
(Indexed 2007-08-02):
No sooner did we outline ongoing mashup contests than Tibco launch their own contest, this one called the Ultimate Ajax Challenge. The competition is in support of their new PageBus product. We’ve now added this to our Contests page where there are 4 ongoing mashup contests. PageBus builds on the company’s core strength in enterprise [...]
IBMs Project Zero
(Indexed 2007-07-09):
IBM is working on a new product, now called Project Zero, designed to enable agile application development with a strong emphasis on REST architectures, mashup-style integration and Ajax interfaces. Their home page gives you a good summary:Project Zero is an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next [...]
eBays New APIs
(Indexed 2007-06-12):
eBay kicked of their eBay Developer’s Conference 2007 yesterday with a big set of product announcements. What’s new? From their announcement:eBay Shopping Web Services: a suite of faster, more responsive APIs that makes searching on eBay significantly faster and allows developers to easily create buying applicationsNew JavaScript and Flash Developer Centers - making it easier [...]
New APIs: Chat, Lending, Payment
(Indexed 2007-05-09):
New API listings week cover presence, peer-to-peer lending, and payment authorization. Here’s the details:Jaiku: The Finnish presence service that offers “a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing presence updates with them on the Web and mobile.” They offer REST and XML-RPC interfaces to get and set user presence information. One [...]
New APIs: More Twitter, More Enterprise
(Indexed 2007-04-24):
Besides last week’s big API news of the Google AJAX Feeds API and then the Digg API, other notable APIs have been recently added to our API directory including:Twittervision: The folks behind the very popular Twittervision mashup that maps twitterers, now has its own API: “We wanted to publish easy ways for people to work [...]
Google AJAX Feed API
(Indexed 2007-04-20):
Google this week announced the release of the Google AJAX Feed API. What is it? It’s a JavaScript library that lets you mashup RSS and Atom feeds entirely on the client, thus no need for server-side coding. In addition, one of the useful core features is that it can automatically map XML attributes to a [...]
9 Places to Use APIs Without Coding
(Indexed 2007-03-26):
Here’s a trend we’re seeing more of these days: vendor provided interactive API tools. These useful web-based applications let you test drive the methods of a given web API without having to write code. AJAX-style web forms let you choose methods and parameters, press go, and have data immediately returned in another part of the [...]
Best New Mashups: Toxic Waste and Crime
(Indexed 2007-03-15):
Yesterday we looked at interesting new mashups not using maps and so today we’ll look at a few new ones that do use maps, but are not repeats of the other 969 maps mashups in our listings:EPA Superfund Site Locator: How close do you live to a Superfund toxic waste site? Integrates EPA Superfund XML [...]
New APIs: Domains, Email and Voice
(Indexed 2007-03-13):
With the latest set of APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb you could: find a name for your new web domain, report on its health, setup email campaigns to promote it, and integrate it with PSTN voice services. Here’s a quick rundown of what they are:Domain Tools API: This XML API provides domain resellers and registrars access [...]
New Google Notebook API
(Indexed 2007-02-10):
Not exactly sure when this API quietly launched, but Google has a Notebook Data API for their Google Notebook application. It’s another GData-based API, Google’s XML-based protocol that extends Atom and RSS. There are now 6 GData APIs, all of which are listed here at ProgrammableWeb along with mashups built with them:Google Base APIBlogger APIGoogle [...]
Best New Mashups: Ajax, Maps and TV
(Indexed 2006-11-15):
Time for the latest roundup of best new entries in the Programmable Web mashup database. It’s been two weeks since the last best-of review and since then 89 mashups have been added, a good 6.4 per day on average for that stretch. Once again mapping APIs, like Google API and Virtual Earth API, have taken [...]
AOL Video API
(Indexed 2006-10-19):
AOL has released their AOL Video Search API. It’s based on their acquisition of startup Truveo back in January (all API methods are prefixed with “truveo”). They have created a pretty comprehensive developer center for their video search tools, which includes both a REST and AJAX API.In addition, they’ve been smart and with searchvideo.com they [...]
New Yahoo Answers API
(Indexed 2006-08-16):
Yahoo! announced yesterday the availability of their new Answers API. The API gives you the ability to get answers by questions, category and by user. Like many of the Yahoo! APIs data can be retrieved in XML and JSON but also serialized PHP which is a handy convenience for PHP developers. Nice to see that [...]
On Bastard Apps
(Indexed 2006-08-11):
Duane Merrill over at IBM’s Developerworks just posted this good introductory overview Mashups: The new breed of Web app. He covers the various genres (as classified by tag here), the technologies including REST/SOAP, Ajax, RSS, RDF and screen scraping. And perhaps the most interesting part, the “Technical Challenges” section that looks at issues in data [...]
Mashup Camp Day 1
(Indexed 2006-07-12):
Mashup Camp Day 1 is underway. I recommend using this session grid in the wiki as a way to see what people are talking about. As the day goes on most of the session titles will link to session notes (note that as of now some don’t). Here’s a few:Ajax Design PatternsWiki as Mashup PlatformMicroformats [...]
A Common Mapping API
(Indexed 2006-07-05):
It was bound to happen — an abstraction library to hide the differences between mapping APIs: Mapstraction. It’s a collaborative effort initially funded by the UK property finder Nestoria. As they describe:Mapstraction is a library which provides a common API for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft’s javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another [...]
New Yahoo Messenger API
(Indexed 2006-06-22):
Yahoo! this week introduced a new Plug-in SDK for Yahoo! Messenger. It is a JavaScript and C++ API for building features to run inside their IM client. Some initial plug-ins are over in the Yahoo! Gallery.There is a new Messenger API entry on the ProgrammableWeb site.
SRC Demographics API
(Indexed 2006-06-15):
SRC freedemographics.com, a provider of geographic business intelligence software announced this week the release of a new API: www.FreeDemographics.com/api. A “dashup” as they call it:Data services readily available to add to developer mashups. The FreeDemographics API lets developers embed business intelligence content including, market, consumer and corporate data directly into a website with JavaScript. As [...]
Eventsites, a Serverless Mashup
(Indexed 2006-06-06):
Just a quick pointer to this interesting writeup by Peter Nixey at Webkitchen about the design and architecture of his mashup Eventsites. Why is it interesting? Because his application uses no server-logic or database of its own, just pure AJAX and web-services. Serve-up a page with some HTML and JavaScript, fetch data from EVDB, Flickr, [...]
The Latest APIs
(Indexed 2006-06-05):
What’s new on the API front? The current total API count at ProgrammableWeb is 214 with average of one new API added every two days during the past month. Here’s the latest from the relatively busy past two weeks:Google Ajax Search: A JavaScript library that allows you to embed Google Search in your web pages [...]
Google Calendar API Released
(Indexed 2006-04-20):
As announced on their blog yesterday, the Google Calendar API is officially released.The API uses their new GData, Google data API model — an XML over HTTP REST-style approach that supports RSS and Atom syndication formats. Their edit model for creating, modifying and deleting events is based on the Atom Publishing Protocol. Any language can [...]
Google Releases Maps API v2
(Indexed 2006-04-04):
Yesterday Google officially released version 2 of their Maps API (some testers have had this earlier). What’s new? API-level updates include:JavaScript download is about 50% smallerOn ‘overview map’ that displays a mini collapsible map in cornerGreater extensibility for custom controls, overlays and map typesFewer memory leaks and a handy debugging windowStill, no geocoding service yet [...]
Learning Virtual Earth
(Indexed 2006-03-29):
Here’s a couple of new Virtual Earth articles. First is this good one from Jonathan Hawkins on how he build a mashup of US national parks using Virtual Earth and Altas, the Microsoft’s Ajax framework. Detailed step-by-step instructions with lots of code and screenshots.The second is this article from MP2K Magazine interviewing the folks from [...]
Seattle Movie Finder Explained
(Indexed 2006-03-03):
There’s a good new article over at O’Reilly’s XML.com: Seattle Movie Finder: An AJAX- and REST-Powered Virtual Earth Mashup. It’s by Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo who gives a good nice review of how he built a map-based means for browsing movie theater locations using XML, ASP.NET, and the Virtual Earth API.
Yahoo! PHP Dev Center
(Indexed 2006-02-23):
Anyone writing mashups and web services-based applications in PHP should check-out the new PHP Developer Center at Yahoo!. It has some very useful how-to articles, code samples and other resources on using REST and SOAP, parsing XML, caching, geocoding, and more. The examples are Yahoo! based but the techniques and code can clearly be applied [...]
New Developer Tools from Yahoo!
(Indexed 2006-02-14):
Yesterday Yahoo! released 2 new interesting sets of tools for developers:Yahoo! User Interface Library : As they describe “The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation [...]
United States of Ajax
(Indexed 2006-02-13):
Since starting MashupFeed I spend less time in this blog pointing-out specific mashups and examples since they’re available via subscription. But, here’s an interesting one: United States of Ajax created by Jim Hamilton.The core of it is based on the Yahoo! Maps API. It seems simple on the surface but there’s a lot going there. [...]