Open Data Now: Hottest Contenders for 2014
A book about open data, to be released in January—and the launch of a pilot website showcasing open data businesses—both forecast a big year for open data in 2014, and highlight the importance of...
How to Harness the Power of Open APIs
In the very early days of APIs, when John Musser founded ProgrammableWeb, the default for every new API was open–wide open. As the industry has matured, companies have become more careful to enter t...
PW Interview : Brandon Wirtz CTO Stremor.com
Here is an interview with Brandon Wirtz, CTO of the very exciting text mining API startup Stremor.com. We have covered Stremor here before. Liquid Helium API is the core of all Stremor’s products an...
Best New Mashups: Movie Mashups Light up The Stage
Sometimes it seems like I spend more time looking for a good movie to watch, than I do actually watching it. I have a feeling that I am not the only one that has this problem. Thankfully with resource...
Amazon Redshift API is out of limited preview and available!
Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze data using existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for dataset...
InternetDJ API: Make Your Off-Label Music Spin
The InternetDJ API opens this electronic music site to your app. Since 1997 (not a typo!) composers and fans have been able to share and mix music and videos. According to the API’s website, re...
73 Transportation APIs: Yahoo Traffic, iRail and TFL Cycle Hire
Our API directory now includes 73 transportation APIs. The newest is the car2go API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Yahoo Traffic API. We list 20 Yahoo Traffic mashups. Below you’ll f...
AP Enriches Third-Party Publishers Content with Metadata Services
The AP Metadata API that has internally powered the Associated Press’ award-winning news operation is now available to third-party developers and publishers. The service is aimed at publishers looki...
42 Collaboration APIs: Box.net, Basecamp and Grove.io
Our API directory now includes 42 collaboration APIs. The newest is the Devot:ee Upload API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Box.net API. We list 77 Box.net mashups. Below you’ll find ...