Web 2.0

By Matthew Casperson To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-...

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By John Musser Menu Mania API: Menumania lets you find restaurants, menus, food photos and reviews in your area. The MenuMania Developer API is a REST API that allows you to access our extensive database of restaurant information to display within your own website or application. Using the Developer AP...

By Adam DuVander Microstock Photo Plugin for Wordpress: Easily add relevant photos to your blog posts without leaving Wordpress. Turn on the affiliate option to start earning money from links on your photos. Simple, automatic and lucrative photos for Wordpress blogs. APIs: Fotolia. More at our Microstoc...

By Adam DuVander The Twitter mobile team is proud of their “dogfooding” the platform team’s work: Interestingly, we have 13 Twitter mashups tagged mobile, including the newly-listed Twittme Mobile Twitter profile. Related ProgrammableWeb Resources Twitter API Profile, 304 mashups

By Matthew Casperson Microsoft has announced its new Facebook SDK, which allows developers using Microsoft technologies to quickly create web client (via Silverlight), web server (via ASP.NET) and desktop (via WinForms and WPF) applications that harness the power of the Facebook API.

By Andres Ferrate Microsoft has just released a new Silverlight version of Bing Maps that is full of new features and upgrades. Although it's hard to say whether this release of Bing Maps has "stolen the cool crown" from Google, the new features do provide some additional value for users. The "beta" release i...

By Matthew Casperson Google Analytics is one of the most popular, and free, ways to track web site statistics. It is not uncommon for web masters to use Google Analytics to monitor several different domains, possibly using more than one Google account to do so. But while Google Analytics is a powerful tool, gett...

By Adam DuVander The app also embraces Twitter as a now-standard communications platform. Using your own account, you can reply to congressional tweets from within the app. Related ProgrammableWeb Resources Sunlight Labs API Profile, 16 mashups

By John Musser Facebook used in Jewforme Google AJAX Libraries used in That Big Shop Google App Engine used in Trendy!Bing Google Maps Data used in Jewforme Yahoo Geocoding used in U.S. of Ajax Yahoo Maps used in CitySlick, U.S. of Ajax YouTube used in The Attack Machine, TweetzTV

By John Musser Aloqa API: The Aloqa Content Publisher API allows you to “publish location-relevant content (a business directory, social network, dating site or any other relevant content useful for people on the go) by creating a channel on Aloqa instead of building and supporting mobile applicat...

By Adam DuVander ScoreInTheBox: Type in your domain name and find out how your site scores. Uses a unique formula consisting of variables, such as backlinks and popularity, to calculate a score for each website entered. APIs: Alexa Web Information Service, Google Ajax Search, Yahoo Site Explorer. More at...

By Michael Manoochehri Ubuntu’s decision to approach the EC2 API as a de facto interface is a step toward providing developers with better standardization in cloud computing services. For example, developers using Ubuntu images will now have the option to test their code on a private cloud before deploying to...

By Adam DuVander Perhaps your most important online network of business contacts is now programmable. LinkedIn launched its API (our LinkedIn API profile), which allows developers to access a user's connections and anyone's profile data, in addition to several other features. Though some are saying "...

By Adam DuVander Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they've added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of Maps V3, which was released in May, t...

By Adam DuVander The quiz runs on Google App Engine (our Google App Engine API profile) and was created with the Google Web Toolkit. There's no doubt that Wikipedia is a giant store of information. And yes, they have an API, but the data isn't exactly structured. But that didn't stop Jim Blackler, who created Q...

By Michael Manoochehri The Cosmos and Culture competition is open to entries until midnight (London time) on November 28, 2009. More information about the contest can be found here, and there is a Science Museum Developer Google group as well. For some inspiration in creating your own mashups for the contest, ta...

By Andres Ferrate MashSSL Open 1.2.0 (SafeMashUps)Media RSS 1.5.0 (Yahoo!)OAuth Core 1.0 Revision A (Facebook, Google, Yahoo!)OAuth WRAP 0.9 (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo)OpenService Format Specification version 0.8 (Microsoft)PubSubHubbub (Google) Salmon Protocol (Google)Simple W...

By Adam DuVander The Chargify API is the core of their service, which handles billing and subscription services (details at our Chargify API profile). Lead developer Michael Klett explained how it works in an interview with ZDNet: For more on Chargify’s services, watch their video (embedded below).

By Adam DuVander For an idea of what you could build, check out the NextStop API examples or join the API list on Google Groups. NextStop helps you discover things to do and places to go. And now you can include NextStop content in your website using the NextStop API to provide the same recommendations to your u...

By Adam DuVander The implementation is, perhaps, a little simplistic. However, the user experience of the list isn’t the part we should be admiring. It’s that libraries are embracing open APIs and creating useful information access applications on top of them. It’s a big enough trend that there’s a good ne...

By Adam DuVander The opening of the data is likely to be important for Foursquare in the long run. Foursquare is getting traction with users putting information into its system, but a real explosion could come if third-party developers start making some great apps on top of the service. Obviously, we’ve se...

By Adam DuVander Murch anticipates developers taking advantage of the content to create new cooking applications for Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices as well as new food-related mashups with Twitter and Facebook. Murch also sees the content possibly being used to develop appli...

By Andres Ferrate It's been less than a month since Mixer Labs released the first version of its read/write location API, formerly know as the TownMe GeoAPI. Now Mixer Labs has rebranded the TownMe GeoAPI as GeoAPI.com and released several new features as part of the rebranding.

By John Musser Facebook used in Facebook Friends Map Google AdSense used in Turkish Earthquakes Google AJAX Libraries used in Turkish Earthquakes Google Ajax Search used in Transmission News Google Maps Flash used in Lobbyist Activity Tracker Wikipedia used in Transmission News

By John Musser IssueTracker Data API: Google’s Issue Tracker Data API lets client applications view and update issues on Project Hosting on Google Code in the form of Google Data API feeds. Client apps can “use the Issue Tracker Data API to add new issues and comments, request lists of issues, request is...

By Guest Author Content often contains very important semantic markup, used to emphasize the content, relate it to other content, describe it, etc. By markup, I mean HTML, character encodings and microformats, among others. Although this markup is important to the content, it also makes it “dirty”, po...

By Andres Ferrate The marriage between geographic context and real-time communication continues, as Twitter has indicated that its new “Trends API” will support queries for trends in a particular location. According to Raffi Krikorian of the Twitter Platform Team: Hat tip TechCrunch].

By Michael Manoochehri If the first dictionary was invented after the Internet was created, it might look something like Wordnik, which bills itself as “a place for all the words, and everything known about them.” Wordnik allows users to look up definitions, add new words to their online database, and provides...

By John Musser This past week we had 6 new APIs added to our API directory. These new web services include the first "foreclosure API", a basic API for generating random numbers for use in casino software, an used car API to let you search 2 million vehicle listings, an API for geo-locating mobile phones, a...

By Adam DuVander Developers don’t necessarily need Google or agencies to provide them with all the data. London Tube Journey Planner, for example, shows routes and plans trips. We currently list 91 transit mashups, several dating back to 2005. Related ProgrammableWeb Resources Google Maps API Profile,...

By Adam DuVander Structured data has an open platform, thanks to a new startup aptly named Factual. At first glance, it seems like Excel on the web. However, Factual is more database-oriented, with joining and filtering built-in. Plus, sharing and discussing the data is an integral part of the experience. M...

By John Musser Raven Tools API: The Raven database contains search results for thousands of keywords. Each week the Raven engine captures 50 (100 for Bing) search results for these keywords from the major search engines. This data can be returned in XML or JSON format. Raven offers tools for researching,...

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By John Musser Payvment API: Payvment is a shopping cart API Web Service that “lets you add shopping cart capabilities to any application. The cart API can be used with your own products or with a retailer’s affiliate products.” The Payvment Shopping Cart API can also be accessed via Yahoo Developer Netw...

By Adam DuVander The security issues with mashups are not much different from concerns web developers should already be considering, especially if using JavaScript and AJAX. The complexity added with mashups is that, when the APIs are also JavaScript, there are more holes which can expose an applicati...

By John Musser ScreenTunes API: ScreenTunes is a media-based search engine. The ScreenTunes API offers a basic data feed for developers wishing to add a soundtrack or reverse-soundtrack search to their application or site. Data can be retrieved in both JSON and XML formats.

By Andres Ferrate Center for Information Technology (CIT)National Institutes of Health (NIH)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) And the identity providers participating in the pilot include several major players in the tech industry:

By Michael Manoochehri Google has dominated the search engine world for years, weathering the attempts of many competitors who have tried and failed to capture a piece of the search engine market. True Knowledge, a new natural language search service, is hoping to gain a piece of the search pie by harnessing the...

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By Tina Gasperson It only seems right that people blogging via Blogger would be able to take advantage of AdSense features for their blogs - both are Google products, after all. Now they can. Google has used their AdSense API to provide more built-in monetization options for its Blogger members.

By Michael Manoochehri For the past few months, the API of microblog site Twitter has been used as the basis for many popular and creative mashups. Now Facebook, with the launch of its highly anticipated Open Stream API, is attempting to gain some attention as a platform for social networking applications.

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By Michael Manoochehri Yahoo’s BOSS, an API that gives developers open access to Yahoo’s search infrastructure, will soon be offered as a premium service. Today, Yahoo announced some new features that may be a move toward justifying BOSS’s fee-based structure, including the ability to search tags for bookma...

By Michael Manoochehri 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...

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