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ProgrammableWeb
Online reference, blog and news source for the Web as Platform. Because the world's your programmable oyster.

  • Today in APIs: Private Path API, Wolfram?s Siri Love and 18 New APIs
    Wolfram Alpha Path.com has a mobile app, so of course it has an API. Someone sniffed the traffic and discovered something naughty. And you know the answer-anything Wolframe Alpha? Find out why it really, really likes Apple's Siri. Plus: Facebook gaming, Google Plus developers and 18 new APIs.

  • API as Product: With Volume Comes Lower Prices
    Amazon S3Amazon just dropped prices on its popular Amazon S3 API, which provides storage to much of the web. The service will pass 1 trillion objects stored this year. With that volume comes opportunities to lower the costs, as we've seen from other companies whose entire product line includes APIs.

  • RunKeeper Sprints Away to Success With More Apps and Devices
    RunKeeper Health GraphRunKeeper is on its way to becoming the data platform for health applications. Last August, they announced the RunKeeper Health Graph with an API to boot, which makes it possible to build a digital map of an individual?s personal health. The platform has enabled various applications and health device manufacturers to start populating their user data directly into the RunKeeper Health Platform. The platform has met with much success with the application directory growing to more than 40 apps and devices and a new Fitness Reports Dashboard.

  • 97 Cloud APIs: Twilio, Google App Engine and Tropo
    TwilioOur API directory now includes 97 cloud APIs. The newest is the Yubikey API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Twilio API. We list 335 Twilio mashups. Below you'll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of cloud APIs.

  • Blekko: Automate With the Spam-Free Search API
    Blekko is a search engine which uses both algorithms and human interaction for producing high quality search results. Currently serving more than 3 billion pages, Blekko sorts through spam, content farms, and sites containing malware in order to offer only real information to the end-user.

  • Free Your Data and the Apps Will Follow?
    Web APIs represent one of the biggest technology trends of recent years, by leveraging the simple technologies of the Web (REST, JSON, HTTP) for application integration. Although Web APIs are quite simple, organizations have realized that if they expose data in this easy way, they enable an array of mobile apps to be written to consume them. Examples of APIs include simple ways to query company stock information from brokerages, to retrieve flight information from airlines, and to retrieve shipping information from freight companies. In each case, it is simply Web technologies which are used. This is a great use of the language of the Web to address an older problem: data integration.

  • Could This API Help You Keep Your Friends?
    SplitableSome of the best experiences in my life are trips that I took with my closest friends. These memories could be even better if I had not been forced to wait so long to get paid back after fronting the hotel bill. Sometimes friends have different ideas on what is an acceptable timeline for recompense. Now, thanks to Splitable, we can all avoid setting ourselves up for a let down by leveling the playing field. Splitable is an easy-to-integrate payment solution that lets customers split the cost of products and services with their friends. The simple online interface provides a forum for discussing plans and then facilitates payment. The company offers the Splitable API that gives store owners the ability to allow their customers to split the cost of a product or service.

  • More Complete Contact Info with Full Contact API
    Building a customer relationship management (CRM) system in this age of social media isn't about just having name, address, phone and email anymore. You need be able to use all channels possible for communicating and interacting with your customers. Its not just about calling, mailing or emailing your customers anymore, you have to actually engage them on whatever platforms and social networks they use on a daily basis.

  • 5,000 APIs: Facebook, Google and Twitter Are Changing the Web
    Our API directory has hit another major milestone. We now list 5,000 APIs, just a short four months since passing 4,000. No longer is the web simply about links connecting one site to another. Instead, developers are using tools to connect data and functionality from one site to another site. It's an incredible transformation that has happened over a very short period of time. APIs are at the heart of Google's strategy and they led directly to the growth enjoyed by Twitter and Facebook.

  • 71 New APIs: SinglePlatform, CBSSports.com and Web Video Dashboard

    This week we had 71 new APIs added to our API directory including a fantasy sports platform, restaurant menu and local business storefront API, web video dashboard, photo editing service, embedded search service and an application integration platform. We also covered a social media management tool adding its own API. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.