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OAuth Coming to All Google Data APIs
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on April 27, 2008
Standardization, or lack thereof, around identity, authentication and authorization for open web APIs is one of the greatest challenges to mashup application developers today. So it’s quite notable that Google not only just quietly added OAuth support to their Google Contacts API but also stated that “This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs.” With over a dozen...
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TwitterLove: Applying the Social Graph API
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on February 17, 2008
Want to visualize someone’s “following” list on Twitter? Thanks to this creative application of the Google Social Graph API you can. Even though Social Graph API was just released a couple weeks ago it didn’t take long before creative developers began seeing ways to put it to use. And as you can see in our TwitterLove profile the application uses 2 other APIs including the Twitter API to...
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Google Releases Static Maps API
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on February 24, 2008
If you want a dead-simple way to create custom maps without needing to worry about JavaScript or programming then the just announcedGoogle Static Maps API may be your answer. Google’s new API allows you to generate the maps using a regular URL (ala REST) along with parameters specifying location, size, etc and it returns a unique GIF image with that map. We have created a Static Maps API...
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Comparing the APIs
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on February 11, 2008
Now that Microsoft has responded to Yahoo’s initial rejection of their offer it looks like this story isn’t over yet. Whether or not this deal goes through, it’s worth noting that both of these companies take developing open web APIs as a key part of their strategy going forward (even in the midst of the talks last week Yahoo released their Yahoo Live API). Overall Yahoo has 28 open web...
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Twitter API Goes Geo
via ProgrammableWeb by Raymond Yee on May 01, 2008
Thanks to some new API updates, one can now update the Location field in a Twitter user’s profile using the Twitter API. As Ryan Sarver writes on his blog:Location updates currently aren’t normalized or geocoded, but the ability to update it on the fly allows for some very cool possibilities when it comes to geo-based tweeting — especially in apps like Twinkle [an iPhone app] and...
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Love Color? Use This API
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on May 06, 2008
COLOURlovers, the terrific site for the color and design community now has its own API. For those not familiar with COLOURlovers, it’s “a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color apalettes, submit news...
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eBay Opens Platform to 3rd Party Developers
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on June 16, 2008
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”. More specifically this means that third party seller tools can be included within eBay’s popular Selling Manager, much the same way other platforms like Salesforce.com allow...
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USAspending.gov: You Will be Watched
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on January 15, 2008
We recently added this new API listing to the US government site USAspending.gov which provides API access to budget data, but we didn’t notice a detail which one of our readers
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Google’s New Chart API
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on December 05, 2007
Google continues to innovate on the API front, today releasing an API in a very different category: charting. What is it? From the FAQ: “The Google Chart
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