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Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Fitness, Currency, and Images. Highlights include an API for investment platform Rentablo and an API for data about emotional triggers in movies, TVs and books. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
Freelancer.com has made a name for itself in the outsourcing world with a simple platform for hirers to access freelance work across the board. Through its API, Freelancer.com takes its service a step further through automating hiring of Freelancers. Could the human on the hire-side be obsolete?
Plume Labs made its air quality data API available to third parties through the Plume.io platform. The data is gathered from over 12,000 monitoring stations, 80 public agencies, and growing crowdsourced participants. Plume AI algorithms consider the data and forecast air quality and variances.
Building on last year's launch of the Lyft API, Lyft has announced a Dispatch Developer Program that allows riders to use Lyft's on-demand transportation network without a Lyft account. Third party business' manage the Lyft account, and own the end user experience through an existing relationship.
Last year, Yelp introduced its completely new Yelp Fusion API. Since its introduction, Yelp has dedicated most of its resources on the new API, and encouraged developers to migrate to Fusion. Over that time period, Yelp has added new features, fixed bugs, and now signals the end of the legacy API.
Scale has released an API that connects apps and workflows to a human workforce. After a single line of code calls the Scale API, Scale assigns a human member to complete the requested task. To start, the Scale workforce supports phone calls, transcription, and categorization services.
Little over a year after Uber released its API, Uber continues to add features that propel its offering well beyond a simple ride sharing service. Uber Trip Experiences allows third party apps to access a rider's Uber app and trip details. Think about a ten minute playlist, for a ten minute trip.
FundPaaS has launched the FinTech industry's first Investor Onboarding API. The API integrates with crowdfunding portals to provide investor-related data.
APIs new to the directory today include a customer predictive analysis service, a crowd-based payment platform, a plagiarism checker, and more.
Algorithmia's live, crowdsourced API is designed to make it easier for developers to create, discover and use algorithms from within the open marketplace.
Sidecar announced same-day package delivery alongside its existing ride-sharing services. Sidecar expects "People + Packages" to represent half its revenue by the end of the year.
TomTom launches an API that allows businesses to integrate end-user map feedback contributions into pre-existing maps, decreasing the time between detection and and updates.
Crowdfunder.co.uk provides an API that simplifies third-party crowd commerce integration. The API is currently in open beta and users are encouraged to provide feedback.
Growstuff announces an open planting database to assist home growers with geographic, crop, and climate specific planting advice.
Historically, entrepreneurs and businesses in need of capital to bring their ideas to life had limited options, such as venture capital, bank loans and credit cards. But thanks to crowdfunding services like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, it's now possible for entrepreneurs and businesses to raise money from consumers willing to pre-order their wares.
When it comes to security in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) it’s clear that the convergence of both digital and physical paradigms in going to be required. At the South by Southwest conference next month Brivo Labs will release APIs designed to allow developers to achieve that goal.
Well over 600,000 developers participate in a topcoder community that not only allows them to expand their development skills, but also gives them access to projects where they can get paid for participating.
GreatNonprofits; leading developer of tools that allow people to find, review, and share information about charities and nonprofits; has announced that it will launch a bi-directional API. The API will allow information to flow two directions. Reviewers can submit reviews via the API and third party applications can include reviews within content. Craiglist founder, Craig Newmark, recently invested in GreatNonprofits in hopes that it would become the Yelp of nonprofits.
You are a major brand wanting to advertise. Do you: A) hire an advertising agency and pay big bucks for photo shoots, or B) crowdsource images from your fan base for free? The Olapic API integrates answer B into other apps.
What happens when Joe Investor ("sophisticated" or otherwise) backs too many ventures that go bust that take him down with them? Now that crowdfunding is legal thanks to the JOBS Act passed in 2012, scenarios like this and worse have the potential of becoming much more frequent. But just because it's legal doesn't mean it's free of regulation. In fact, the regulations that are still being hammered out promise to be fierce. How will a crowd sourcing investment site, or an enterprise looking for financing on one of those sites, keep track of it all? Actually, that may not even be possible--unless the funding portal uses a service like the Crowdbouncer API.
The 600 million numbers that Truecaller has in its directory have been collected via crowd-sourcing. Truecaller’s users can share their contacts and in return they get access to search in the collaborative database. Thanks to this collaborative data solution, the directory is growing and being updated continuously. It also contains numbers that no other directories have, e.g. pre-paid phones.
BancBox, payment services provider, has announced a new service and correlating API: BancBox Crowd. BancBox Crowd consists of the first independent escrow service for debt, equity, and revenue share crowdfunding portals. The service provides an online portal that eliminates the legacy escrow process (e.g. paperwork, waiting, etc.).
iDreamBooks, book review aggregator, deems itself the "rottentomatoes.com for books." iDreamBooks searches reviews across media outlets and compiles the data to a single, comprehensive repository of review. iDreamBooks offers developers access to the reviews through the iDreamBooks API.
As I continue to report on new APIs popping up all over the Internet, one theme has caught my attention: systems powered by simple information tasks completed by humans. It’s developing trend in which humans take requests from software systems, complete them, and feed the results back into the system. This is a fundamental shift in computing. Now, Human input is no longer solely for the purpose of controlling or directing the application. It has become just another functional component of the system. The human is taking the place of a software component and can in some instances be described in terms of expected inputs and outputs.
In this age of automation and separation it is surprising to find human components of automated services. QuickTate believes that humans are still better than computers at speech recognition and that’s why the QuickTate API is built around living breathing typists. The company has taken the old model of a transcription service and revamped it to take advantage of the internet age that we live in: typists are distributed rather than co-located and jobs can be submitted via API from any number of applications.
