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Build Agnostic Map Mashups with Mapstraction

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ImageIf 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.Read more

Voices.com: An API for Voice Talent

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ImageVoices.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.Read more

7 Million Patents via Google Patent Search API

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ImageThe 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 [...]Read more

Monetize Chat Apps with AIM Money

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ImageAOL 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 [...]Read more

Cut the Clutter with the AideRSS API

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ImageAideRSS, 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 [...]Read more

Should the Feds Focus on Reusable Data or User Interfaces?

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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 [...]Read more

eBay Opens Platform to 3rd Party Developers

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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".Read more

The ZayPay API and Global Micro-Commerce

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ImageMicro-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 [...]Read more

Paris Hilton Photos Leaked via API Security Breach

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What happens when the API is technically secure but the environment, whether widget, web site or mashup, is not? Recent security breaches in MySpace and Yahoo, which led to the release of semi-embarrassing photos of prolific celebs Paris Hilton and [...]Read more

Visualizing the Bible Using APIs

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ImageFor 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 [...]Read more

Amazon and the Economics of Web Services

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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.Read more

arXiv: An API for Research-Grade Information

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ImagearXiv.org is an online archive of nearly a half million science, math, and computer science research documents.Read more

Google’s New AJAX Distribution Network

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ImageIn 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 [...]Read more

Sony PlayStation 3 is a YouTube Mashup

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ImageDemonstrating 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 [...]Read more

Google’s New Maps API for Flash

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ImageLast week, Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash, the latest extension of their extremely popular Google Maps API.Read more

Wetpaint Launches API and Platform

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ImageSeattle-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.Read more

Yahoo Releases Internet Location Platform

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ImageYesterday, Yahoo announced its new Internet Location Platform API, "a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth" that "provide the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary [...]Read more

Thanks to ProgrammableWeb Sponsors

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We couldn't keep making ProgrammableWeb the resource it is without the help of our sponsors and partners. A big thanks for their support.Read more

3000 Mashups

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3000 mashups. That's how many mashups are now listed in our ProgrammableWeb directory as of last week.Read more

Twitter API Goes Geo

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ImageThanks to some new API updates, one can now update the Location field in a Twitter user's profile using the Twitter API.Read more