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Best New Mashups: Who’s Feeling Aggregated?

FoursquareOne of the most powerful aspects of mashups is taking similar data from competing websites and providing a single place to examine the content. In this round-up of the best new mashups we'll look at three apps that aggregate data from multiple services. One looks at location check-ins, another at shared photos and another mashes photos with information about where they were taken.

How Twitter’s 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs

TwitterWhile Twitter mashups continue their tremendous growth, there's another area we're also noticing blossom: Twitter APIs. These developer-created apps process data from Twitter, adding value and sharing that back out for developers.

Bit.ly Improves Their Popular URL Shortening API

Bit.lyIt is not uncommon to hear services promoting themselves as having more bandwidth, more storage and more speed. Despite this services like Twitter and SMS are incredibly popular despite only being able to send one or two sentences at a time. The economy of these messaging services has made URL shortening services like bit.ly necessary. Given its integration into 3rd party sites, it’s not surprising that bit.ly also has an accompanying API, which has just gotten an overhaul with version 3.

Yahoo Removes All Access Restrictions to the Yahoo Email API

Yahoo MailDespite the popularity of micro blogging, instant messaging and social networks, email still plays a huge role in communicating across the internet. This fact is not lost on the big players, who are actively looking for ways to add value to their email services. We have already reported on some changes Google have made to Gmail by implementing the OAuth protocol to make it more open and secure for external access, but it seems that Yahoo beat them to the post, who have also implemented OAuth for their Yahoo Mail API.

Yahoo’s New Geo Concordance: a Geographic Rosetta Stone?

Yahoo GeoPlanetLast week at Where 2.0, Yahoo's Gary Gale discussed "geosetta", the concept of a geographic Rosetta Stone, which allows for a unified conversion of geographic namespaces based on different geographic reference identifiers (e.g., Yahoo's Where on Earth ID, or WOEID).

SimpleGeo is the Location Database API We’ve Wanted

SimpleGeoOnce you get beyond the most basic map mashups, you'll run into a problem with data storage and access, because you can't hard-code hundreds of markers. It's a problem that SimpleGeo wants to fix. And from the looks of their new platform, they've gone beyond expectations.

4 New APIs: Football (soccer), Bible, Motorsports, and Document Viewing

This week we had 31 new APIs added to our API directory (nearly as many as last week's record-setting pace). Some notable new entries include an API for an online document viewing service, an online bible reference API, a motorsports events and calendar service API, and a football (soccer) API.

21 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Flickr, Foursquare, Google, Last.fm, RPX, Twitter

This past week 15 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 21 different APIs were used to build them.

Google Adds CSV and KML Upload Support to Maps Data API

Google Maps DataEarlier this week Google announced a new feature for its Maps Data API (check out our Maps Data API Profile) that will have a significant impact on how developers upload, and subsequently access, geospatial data in the cloud: data can now be uploaded to Google's infrastructure in either

Best New Mashups: Get At Hidden Data

FacebookMost mashups rely on data from other APIs to do their thing. That's part of the power of open APIs. There's a special class of mashup that we're featuring today. These extract additional data, hidden from casual view. Now you can find out where that short URL points, the lyrics (and more) for any song, or the spot where you can meet in the middle--as long as you can spell rendezvous.



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