With the devastating disaster that struck Haiti, we have all been individually pitching in to help the efforts. This is our effort, as a team, to respond to the needs of communities such as Crisis Commons by delivering a Haitian Creole translator which can be of help to individual users, as well as other technology projects that could use a scalable translation system in their relief endeavors.

The Microsoft Translator API can

With the devastating disaster that struck Haiti, we have all been individually pitching in to help the efforts. This is our effort, as a team, to respond to the needs of communities such as Crisis Commons by delivering a Haitian Creole translator which can be of help to individual users, as well as other technology projects that could use a scalable translation system in their relief endeavors.

The Microsoft Translator API can

• TubeSpy: TubeSpy is an application that shows the videos being watched on YouTube as they are being watched. APIs: YouTube. More at our TubeSpy profile.



• Beardscratchers Compendium: A music-based mashup that connects and filters disparate music metadata from across the Web, with an aim towards accuracy and focus on the music. Combines many different APIs from YouTube to Last.fm. APIs: Amazon eCommerce, Echo

In Auctiva’s announcement, CEO Jeff Schlicht explains what AMP means for developers:

“AMP allows developers to create whatever it is that excites them for the e-commerce world. By releasing AMP we hope to open a new range of possibilities and kick-start innovation in the e-commerce space.”

With the company’s experience writing software on top of eBay’s platform (our eBay API profile), Auctiva is well-positioned to pull this off. It knows the elements necessary for a thriving ecosystem. This is apparent in its read/write API, which includes options to add new merchants and products to the platform.

At least one developer has pounced on photo sharing on FourSquare, but not as you might expect. Rather than create a mobile application, Sam Street wrote his own API, Fspic (details at our Fspic API profile).

Street explained how photo-sharing is useful to the FourSquare API discussion list:

“The uploadPhoto API method will accept venue_ids and be able to perform venue checkins as well as text shouts. This makes for a great feature whereby you can see all the photos of a certain venue, and all photos of venues within a certain

Dictionary Definitions API: The Dictionary Definitions API from STANDS4 uses REST calls to enable you to get dictionary definition information in XML format for a given word.

Elev.at API: Elev.at is a web API that converts legacy/proprietary files such as Text (CSV, tab delimited) and XLS (Excel) into XML in real-time so that it can be consumed by Internet, mobile, and desktop apps. The source file must be reachable via a URL, or must reside within a ZIP file that is reachable via a URL. As the creators note:

A good way to get a sense of what you can do is to look at the 6 new functions added to the API:

• flickr.photos.people.getList, which will return the people identified in a given photo,
• flickr.people.getPhotosOf, which will find the photos that show a given person,
• flickr.photos.people.add, which will add a person to a photo,
• flickr.photos.people.deleteCoords, which will delete a face

The basic account lets you draw straight lines, curvy lines and several shapes: circles, rectangles and polygons. In all cases, you choose the color and line thickness. You can also add text or images over the map, as well as markers similar to those in the standard Google Maps.

The biggest additions to pro account are support for several external file types. Most notably, Shapefiles (a format used for much of the GIS data available) can be imported and rendered. Scribble Maps Pro also supports KML, the more open format popularized by Google Earth.

Scribble’s interface gets a facelift in the Pro version, as well. Photoshop-like layers help you make sense of the elements on your map. And you can style the lines in several ways, making for a better showcase of your work when you finally embed it on a webpage–perhaps the most important feature, which is available in all versions of Scribble Maps.

Lead Developer Jonathan Wagner explains the Pro features in

The first day of the conference will take place at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, followed by a 24 hour “Hack Day” at the Herbst Pavilion in the Fort Mason Center. The Hack Day includes meals, workshops, and some other goodies, as well as the opportunity to showcase your app or mashup in front of investors and members of the media. Speakers at the conference will include Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, as well as Ryan Sarver (Director of Platform) and

Embedding advertising in an application can be a tricky proposition for developers. Quite often the ads are obtrusive and not relevant. OneRiot believes that their solution is different, actually adding value to the end user experience.

The service is grounded on the premise that users of realtime web apps are primarily trying to find out what’s going on right now for a particular topic. RiotWise serves up links to web pages from a content network that helps users find out what’s going right now. It directly matches the user’s intent – in other words, it adds value to the users’ experience; it helps them do what they are trying to do.

The platform has already been implemented by a number of applications including Digsby and UberTwitter, and with click through rates  

Doris exposes nearly all of the site’s functionality, including task groups, one of the major differences between this and other to-do list services. Update a task’s status (is it done?), view the history and, of course, create tasks. Uses basic authentication and returns XML or JSON.

Our Doris API profile.

Hiveminder approaches its service in a way that lets the user decide how to use it. This ethos carries over to the API, too, which they say provides “building blocks to use Hiveminder however suits you best.” In Hiveminder, tasks have tags and due dates. And the API can create, read, update and delete anything.

Our Hiveminder API profile.

18amail API: An API to remotely connect to the 18amail.co.uk email marketing service. Developers can link their membership based websites and populate 18amail mailing lists in order to send out and track email newsletters.