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National Public Radio (NPR) has introduced an API that it says will allow access to NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations. This archive consists of over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations. You can find more information on More»

Labels: API, widgets

eBay announced the launch of a new services for sellers and developers. The services expand the reach for sellers with a new platform, new APIs and a new way for to get in front of eBay sellers.
The new platform initiatives are significant in that they enable developers even more opportunities to make more money with eBay. The program gives developers access to all the data that eBay’s existing online app for medium- and large-scale retailers. EBay estimates that their developer program currently has 70,000 members who have created approximately 12,000 live applications.
“We’re announcing opening More»

Labels: API, Community Marketing, developers, eBay, online services

In another piece of great news for online developers, the New York Times is promising to open up their treasure trove of content via an API or “Application Programming Interface” which will make it easy to use that content in other applications and websites. APIs are a key part of the driving force that is fueling online innovation. Only a few years ago, complex data sharing among sites and applications was extremely difficult and often frowned on as a violation of good online citizenship at More»

Labels: API, mashups, new york times, nyt

Over the next few days we will be live blogging some of the action here at Mashup Camp 6 in Mountain View at the Computer Science Museum.
The first two of four days are ¨Mashup University¨ where companies will introduce their APIs and mashup enabling technologies. Then, at the ¨Mashup Camp¨ of the final two days we will review dozens of new companies that are using mashups in their projects and vote for the top mashup.
This morning Raymond Yee of UC Berkeley is introducing some of the basic concepts, with more complex stuff More»

Labels: API, developers, mashup camp, mashups

Tim Berners-Lee, the top candidate for “inventing the internet”, noted the coming power of the semantic web in a recent interview. Berners-Lee gave the following provocative example of the kind of functionality we’ll see when our online data stream starts to link with other data, and applications are built that can leverage all this new connectivity:
“Imagine if two completely separate things — your bank statements and your calendar — spoke the same language and could share information with one another. You could drag one on top of the other and a whole bunch of dots More»

Labels: API, powerset, semantic web, tim berners-lee, times of london

YouTube is opening up even more to the online community with a suite of APIs (application programming interfaces) that will allow websites, mobile devices, and more powerfully integrate YouTube content and capabilities.
Here are more details from Christine at the YouTube developer blog
Here is the YouTube announcement
For some time websites have been able to embed YouTube videos using a standard player, butfrom YouTube’s Press release this morning we learn that they have added added the following new API services for external developers:
*Upload videos and video responses to YouTube* Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, More»

Labels: API, developers, Youtube