Tag: api
NYT Developer Network
this would be a good time to make a bet as to when the NYT will predominantly produce for machines as opposed to humans.
Maps API Changelog
Echo Nest
Takes an MP3 and generates an XML file, which describes the track’s structure and musical content. Analyze outputs rhythm, pitch, timbre, and just about any aspect of an audio file with data synchronous to the underlying music precise to the sub-millisecond level.
Opensourcing Maps API Tests
We’ve open sourced our integration tests and are now ready to accept contributions.
pamelafox++ for pushing this through. i hope it has some good uptake.
Google Sheets Maps
In the past, Pamela’s blogged about ways to create map mashups out of published spreadsheets using the Spreadsheets GData API. Well now we have a more integrated approach using spreadsheets gadgets.
the easiest data-driven maps yet.
to make creating placemarks in Maps and Earth even easier, we’ve just released our new and improved Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0 tool.
Yahoo goes it alone
However, I have to lament yet more needless reinvention of contact schema. Why is this a problem? Well, as I pointed out about Facebook’s approach to developing their own platform methods and formats, having to write and debug against yet another contact schema makes the “tax” of adding support for contact syncing and export increasingly onerous for sites and web services that want to better serve their customers by letting them host and maintain their address book elsewhere.
why didn’t y! use opensocial instead?
Google Docs API
Instead of delivering just 1 or 2 new types of reports, or a new visual map mashup, we decided to deliver a platform on which anyone, not just Google, could build the next best thing. We even invited a few developers to try this with us, and they join us in this launch by featuring just a few of their creations, like Panorama’s pivot table, or Viewpath’s Gantt Chart, or InfoSoft’s Funnel Charts — all great tools for the student and enterprise user alike. We also built a few early gadgets ourselves which you might find useful.
opendoc / DDE 2.0
USASpending.gov
now you can query government waste via an API. they forgot &include_black_programs=true
LocationAPI
we still need a standard way to get at a location.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 