Google Data API team has announced the support for Contact Groups and Contact Photos in the new Google Contacts API. With Contact Groups functionality, web applications will be able to offer grouping the contacts, access to Google Contact groups, and the basic CRUD operations on contact groups. The Contact Photos feature will allow for accessing, [...]
Thomson Reuters has launched a WordPress plugin, Tagaroo, which provides automated semantic tags for your blog posts. The inclusion of these tags makes the blog post search engine friendly as well as more convenient for the users to find information. Apart from the metatags, Calais Tagaroo also provides a real-time Flickr photo search which suggests [...]
Sony has integrated the YouTube API in its PlayStation 3 games which will allow the developers to create games with added YouTube related features. The integration will allow for creating games that enables the users to upload in-game video captures directly to YouTube. Mainichi Issho, a popular PS3 game in Japan, is the first to [...]
AOL is planning to open its email API for the third party developers to develop and deploy applications. The plan is to open the content part of email using which developers will be able to build communications and social networking applications which can be added to email interface. Richard Landsman, VP of Technology at AOL, [...]
Google has added a new feature in Google Maps API which provides accurate results for over 50 million addresses in the U.S. Aptly named, rooftop geocoding, the service lets you exactly point the map marker on the roof of any house or building using the street address. A useful feature for finding the exact location [...]
iGoogle, the Start Page service from Google, is slowly turning into a platform for building social and commercial applications. In March, Airtel had partnered with Google to launch Airtel Live, built on top of iGoogle. Further, Google added the facility to share and collaborate on Google Gadgets through iGoogle start page. Today, Google has announced [...]
Frengo, provider of mobile social applications, now supports OpenSocial networks and has launched the OpenSocial Mobile Toolkit. The Frengo OpenSocial Mobile Toolkit will let the developers extend their OpenSocial applications to mobile users. The API can be used to develop notification based events for mobile phones and threaded messaging features for managing conversations from both [...]
buzzd and V-ENABLE have announced a partnership to provide location based nightlife information to mobile users who use V-ENABLE’s Mobile 411 service. buzzd, an editor-controlled, location-based event and venue information provider, lets its users find real-time reviews on venue and events etc. from the user’s own network and the community. V-ENABLE offers automated, voice enabled [...]
LinkedIn has announced partnership with BusinessWeek.com to extend the benefits to business professionals using both of these services. Basically, it is an integration of LinkedIn API by Business Week on their story pages. It is a two-way agreement under which BusinessWeek.com has integrated a LinkedIn widget to show a user’s connections at companies mentioned on [...]
Today, it seems like API launch day. Mashable reports that Ustream.TV has launched its API. In my previous post, I had covered the launch of FriendFeed API. The Ustream API is not as comprehensive as FriendFeed and it also limits the number of calls to 5000 per developer key per day. In nutshell, this is [...]
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