08 Apr 2009 Showcases API, Mapping, Real Estate

Powered by the big announcement from the Open blog, we're looking at visualizations using Real Estate data. The New York Times today released the Real Estate API providing percentiles and counts for real estate listings and sales in New York City. Read more
19 Mar 2009 Showcases API, News, Processing, Radial

Jer over at blprnt.com played around with the newly launched The Guardian API and created some great looking visualizations. He already did similar visualizations with the NY Times API and again he's sharing his experiences working with the API. Read more
17 Mar 2009 Datasets, Notes API, News
The Guardian is the next newspaper to open up their content following the example of The New York Times.
The platform consists of two major components:
1. The Content AP (Access their content database)
2. The Data Store (High quality and curated datasets free to download)
The platform is currently in beta trial and only limited acces will be granted. Read more
09 Feb 2009 Datasets, Notes API, Arduino, Mapping, PhysicalComputing
pachube.Apps is a repository available at http://apps.pachube.com of Pachube applications and feed ‘plugins’ & ‘plugouts’ that can be used either as Pachube input feeds, or to modulate and generate Pachube output feeds – no coding necessary! Read more
05 Feb 2009 Notes API, Geo
Google released a small application to share your location called Google Latitude. You can start let your mobile device automatically update your status or manually enter the data via the Web. Currently it’s available for mobile phones (iPhone support following soon) and as a iGoogle widget. It seems to be a little less engaging for [...] Read more
Datasets, Notes API, Search
The NY Times blog Open announced the release of the Article Search API for the archive of the New York Times.
The Article Search API is a way to find, discover, explore, have fun and build new things. We’ve accumulated quite a few blocks/articles over the last 28 years — all of them tagged and labeled with loving care. Read more
22 Jan 2009 Tools API, Charts

Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google's Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google's interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google's eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries, and Earth). Read more