PUBLIC MARKS with tags data & api

It's funny how you don't hear so much about service mashups these days, despite their undeniable coolness. I'll assert that it's because developing for Web data in the browser is bloody hard work, especially when there are NxN arbitrary API mappings to know.

The main aim is to get up a functioning API and a GTFS importer, then everyone and anyone can help build all the other services just by talking to the API. And we can dump all the data in to Brandon Martin-Anderson's graphserver to route against.

Even beyond the this challenge, World Bank wants to build an ecosystem of developers. And the release of more data sets is certainly a boost to those efforts. The World Bank now offers around 4000 development indicators via its API - up from around 2000 last spring.

Huge amounts of data are available online via APIs, but often in forms that aren't viewable by non-technical folks. This tool lets you play with examples from a handful of popular APIs.

the essential idea of their API is quite simple and familiar: every major kind of data resource has a bookmarkable Web address, and the document found at that URL can have a structure suited to its content and links to related resources.

These new interfaces enable developers to do nearly everything that you can do at http://blockchalk.com. It’s now possible to build client applications, mash-ups, and other tools based on BlockChalk geolocation data and services.

You can read the full API documentation here: BlockChalk API v0.6

So what does this mean? It means that BlockChalk is now more than just a nifty GPS app for your iPhone. It’s an open platform for storing and accessing user-generated content within a geographic context.

What makes the BlockChalk platform unique?

* It’s dead simple. There are no badges, medals, points, unicorns, pirates, or other viral gaming craziness. BlockChalk is about locations and the messages people leave there, that’s it.

MRD (That’s Machine Readable Data – I couldn’t seem to find a better term..) is probably about as important as it gets. It underpins an entire approach to content which is flexible, powerful and open. It embodies notions of freely moving data, it encourages innovation and visualisation. It is also not nearly as hard as it appears – or doesn’t have to be.

Thematic Mapping API is a new JavaScript library which allows you to create thematic maps from your own data source.

The goal of Swift is to provide an API (for programmers) and data set (for researchers) about an arbitrary set of RSS feeds. Swift is a database and a user interface; we are currently focusing on utilizing the open source freebase.com repository as a central store of our curated data.

The Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive. Its goal is to create an online catalog that contains one web page for every book ever published. To do this, it accepts data from a variety of sources: libraries, publishers, book-sellers, and individuals.

We now have an API, which you can use to extract data from bkkeepr and build fun applications around it.

The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data. Through the SHOW and DESC commands we enable developers to discover the available data sources and structure without opening another web browser.