#api (138 links)
- Google’s New Places API | Think Vitamin thinkvitamin.com
Now you have a massive, global, ever-growing database of places which you can use for your web app.
- What is a Polyfill? remysharp.com
Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday.
- Nick Lansley's Technology for Tesco.com Blog: Nice thought piece on APIs from Revolution magazine techfortesco.blogspot.com
Some light info about designing the Tesco groceries API.
- Factual factual.com
A platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of US restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of video game cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data.
- Infochimps Data Marketplace / Commons: Download Sell or Share Databases, statistics, data sets for free infochimps.org
An open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
- Postmark – Email delivery for web apps postmarkapp.com
...helps small and large businesses delivery and track transactional emails. Stop worrying about setup, delivery, and server maintenance. We already excel at this.
Via alastc.
- Google Font API - Google Code code.google.com
With version 1 of the API you can query artists’ discographies and get the information you need to write a custom embedded audio player, with metadata such as track credits and lyrics.
- Google Mapplets - Google Code code.google.com
Mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps.
- YouTube API Blog: Upcoming Change to YouTube Video Page URLs apiblog.youtube.com
The ? character in the URL will be replaced with #! characters. Not all users will be directed to the new URLs, and the change will be implemented gradually over time. This change is part of a larger AJAX rewrite of the YouTube web site. The old-format URLs will continue working indefinitely when used for browser navigation, so if your web site has existing links to YouTube video pages, you don't need to worry about them breaking.
Via twoplusfour.
- KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole krazydad.com
Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project.
Use this application to look at tempo plots for any song to see which bands have a machine controlling the heartbeat of the band. Type in the name of an artist and/or track and get a click plot of the track. If a machine is setting the beat for the song, the click plot will show only small deviations from the average tempo. A flat line means a machine is setting the beat.
Lots of rather exciting music analysis APIs.
A pure AS3 micro-architecture (framework) with a light footprint and limited scope. Simply put, Robotlegs is there to help you wire your objects together. It provides the glue that your application needs to easily function in a decoupled way.
- Photo Box « MarkSelby markmakedo.co.uk
Every so often (Roughly every 1-2 months) the box searches it’s owners flickr account for photos that have been organized in some way and, picking one at random, prints the photo out internally using the small photo printer contained in the lid. You are free to search the box whenever you like but there may or may not be a photo waiting. If there is, there is no way of knowing what it will be.
Via russelldavies.
- Fan Box - Facebook Developer Wiki wiki.developers.facebook.com
Info on the new(ish) embeddable Fan Box for Facebook Pages.
- Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: APIs | Surfing in Kansas ericholscher.com
I think that Piston hits a sweet spot for creating APIs. It has a lot of nice little features, and handles the general use case well. It is also abstract enough that it allows you to provide your own layer on top of it with ease.
Twitter is becoming an ever present backchannel at conferences and events. However sometimes it needs curating and moderating, especially if it's to be displayed large as a part of the event. Here we talk about an app built in a few hours and open sourced today which we used for this purpose for The Guardian's Activate Summit.
A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.
RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative.
Why building a complex feed fetching and parsing infrastructure when you could just use ours? Superfeedr is Real-time Feed Parsing in the Cloud.
- Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
Graphs of how often things feature on guardian.co.uk
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
- Guardian opens APIs and data | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.
- Gadgets - Google Code code.google.com
- Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog blog.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp now does download codes. Ace. "Not just any download codes, mind you, but the sort you can email to your fans OR zap over to Moo for print-on-demand, great looking, and dirt cheap physical download cards."
An API that you can use to check whether your site is included in IE8's Compatibility View blacklist. Simply add your domain name to the URL and you'll be returned either YES if your site is on the current blacklist, or NO if it's not.
Interesting rant about microformats.
Via jerakeen.
- Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online - Finance and Commerce finance-commerce.com
Convinced that customers’ online-shopping behavior is now deeply colored by social-media experiences, the Richfield retailer has opened up proprietary product catalog data collected through its online store.
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
Extensive new Last.fm API. Joy!
- SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound for the Web schillmania.com
SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.