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Some exciting media API news this week as National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that it will release a public API in the coming days. NPR, an internationally acclaimed media production and distribution non-profit, is best known for a wide array of non-commercial radio programs.
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.
Yahoo has taken a major step in the evolution of search APIs with today's release of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). The BOSS platform lets developers build their own full-blown custom search applications on Yahoo's index of the Internet, the same infrastructure that underlies Yahoo Search.
Can we exploit the extraordinary ability that humans have to read faces to make sense of abstract data -- by rendering data as concrete facial features? That's a question raised by a recent ProgrammableWeb Mashup of the Day Pubmed Faceoff.
If you're getting ready to get create a map mashup, but you can't quite decide on which mapping API to use, you may want to check out Mapstraction.
Voices.com is an online marketplace for voice-over talent, where clients looking for actors to provide narration for commercials, documentaries, video games and the like can search for that talent.
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.
AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money. AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform where developers profit from ads they embed into their Open AIM applications.
AideRSS, an RSS feed filtering service, has recently made available a public API. The AideRSS tagline is 'Read what matters' and their mission is to "research every story and filter out the noise, allowing you to focus on what matters most."
How should the American federal government make available its data? In a preprint of a forthcoming paper from Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, Government Data and the Invisible Hand, researchers argue for the role of remixable data in government.
In Chicago today eBay will kick-off of their annual eBay Developer's Conference by announcing Project Echo, a way for outside developers to integrate their apps "directly onto the world's largest ecommerce site".
Micro-commerce is an emerging global trend, from the microcredit pioneered by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, to micropayment systems offered by companies like ZayPay. ZayPay is used for payments for online services, game sites, dating sites, and others. And now they have an API.
For many it's dream that computer programs would lets us see into the essential meaning of the words of a text like the Bible. Although we don't have such programs yet, it's fun to look at efforts moving in that direction.
What do online retailing and selling web infrastructure services have in common? It's a good question and one that Om Malik posed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at last week's D6 Conference in this very good, impromptu video interview.
arXiv.org is an online archive of nearly a half million science, math, and computer science research documents.
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.
Demonstrating a new way to build commercial applications on an API, Google's YouTube team have announced a new partnership with Sony that uses the YouTube API to allow players to record gameplay and upload clips directly to YouTube from their game console
Last week, Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash, the latest extension of their extremely popular Google Maps API.
Seattle-based wiki and social network startup Wetpaint today announced Wetpaint Injected, a new embeddable publishing platform designed to allow creation of user-generated content directly within any site.