A music service is making it even easier to discover music videos by integrating with the YouTube API. A flight data company upgraded its FlightStats API. Plus: Github integration in a collaborative code editor, a “photo hunt” mashup and 17 new APIs.
In the last week we have had some great mashups featured as Mashup of The Day. Since the week is coming to a close we will now take the time to review the best of the best. In the past week we have had a YouTube video aggregator, a google street view tool and a lyric sharing service. For more details on each, continue reading below.
Of the many APIs we published this week, ten were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, those ten will get thrown into the spotlight. Todays featured APIs include The Giving Lab API, which considers itself a charity and aims to help charities reach their goals through the technical side. To read more about how The Giving Lab is making giving, fundraising and paying money to charity easier, visit The Giving Lab API post and The Giving Lab Site.
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Every year a lot of “web professionals” go talk about very important things in the restaurants, bars and streets of Austin, Texas. Then, during the day, some of them go to panels at the SXSW Interactive conference. Voting in August for talks in March is part of the tradition. Each year we’ve tried to encourage APIs to take a larger role in the festival and it’s working. There are more API-related proposals than every before and they’re all listed below for your voting consideration.
On Saturday, September 15th, some major changes will hit the Netflix Public API. Possibly the most significant and likely to impact developers is the removal of user rental history data. The Netflix catalog index files are also being replaced by new versions–and being split into separate streaming and DVD data sets. Read on for more details on these updates.
The Washington Post has launched its first APIs, all with a political usage. The Washington Post staff created applications over the years that collected a lot of data. Now it’s making the data available, via its Washington Post APIs, to civic hackers.
One of the lesser known features of API Jobs is the aggregation of API-related jobs from all over the web. Pulling in jobs from GitHub Jobs, StackOverflow Careers 2.0, Crunchboard, and the 37signals job board every hour creates a never-ending stream of possibilities. Check it out next time you’re on the site.
The Giving Lab considers itself a charity with hopes of making a difference. It’s a network that aims to provide the more technical side of things in the mission to help charities reach their goals. The Giving Lab API is a big part of the technical side.
Facebook to roll out breaking changes on September 5. Submissions are now open for the Google Places API Challenge. Plus: Learn how you can earn money by doing your exercises and 12 New APIs.
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