WSFinder

Can we break 100?

Wow - we had a lot of people submitting stuff in the last 24 hours.

We are now up to 95 APIs and 14 examples of the APIs in use. Can folks help us break 100 before the weekend is out?

Latest APIs:

StrikeIron Canada Geocode Service  -  Lat/long from Canadian Address
StrikeIron US Geocode Service  -  Lat/long , FIPS, census info from US address
ZipCoder - Lat/Long and more from zip codes
Scribble  -  Bookmark things and share them
xwiki   -  Open source Wiki
Yahoo   -  API for Ads on Yahoo! Search Marketing

Latest Examples:
BetterPPC  -  Automated Google Ad Words (Yahoo! Search Marketing coming soon) copy-testing service

Also - someone corrected the name for the provider of the Bible Information. It's Crossway Bibles.

Thank you!

Chris

89 APIs and counting

Well we're up to 89 APIs now and I have to say that it's really cool to see the community adding stuff. Can someone help me break 90 100 before the weekend?

I've added an area to each category so that people can put examples and mashups as well. Hopefully we'll start seeing lots of activity there. I know that there are tons of Google Maps API mashups out there and I'm curious to see if there are others using different APIs.

Here are the new APIs that have been added:
URLtrends - Returns search engine rankings, blogs, bookmarks, search terms, Alexa Rank, Pagerank, Dmoz (ODP categories) and more for an URL.

Blogdigger -  Search for blog posts by keyword, links, media, geography, more. Note that for Blogdigger I couldn't actually find a page that had a lot of information on the APIs themselves. Anyone have a link to those?

Smart Travel Deals -  Search for travel deals

Example added
Foundcity - Urban Bookmarking Tool for your cellphone. Uses Google Maps API.

Chris

Things to do to the Wiki

I thought I'd give folks some insight into some of the things we're thinking about for the wiki.

• Add a section for applications that are using webservices. They're there right now but honestly I think they're way too hard to find and add to. I'll fix that in the next few days.
• I'm thinking about adding a section for upcoming Open APIs. So for example there are folks like Odeo who have announced that they are going to be doing Open APIs but haven't yet.  I'd like to keep the directory fairly clean in terms of only having APIs that you can use today in a separate section but it would be cool to let people announce their intentions too.
• Make the font size bigger. Anyone know a lot about MOIN and want to help with that?
• Let people subscribe via RSS to changes to the wiki. Anyone know how I can do that?

Chris

TechCrunch likes us!

A very nice post from TechCrunch that you can see here . TechCrunch is a very cool blog that keeps up with the latest and greatest Web 2.0 applications that are out there. I have them prominently in my bloglines to let me know about new apps that they profile.

I am hoping that the companies they blog about open up their APIs and let other developers do some cool things with it.

Chris

We are up

I've been scouring the web for some time trying to compile an initial list of APIs that people could use to create applications with and now that we're up to over 80. I think it's pretty cool.

It's our hope that you find this resource useful and that it inspires you to create some cool applications using these Web Services. Please let us know once you do create them and we'll add them to the examples pages. Or just add to the wiki yourself!

We also hope that this effort will encourage more companies and developers will open up their APIs and let other people have access to them. We've seen many examples of great new things that have been created using open APIs that no one would have anticipated before. A burst of cool new services is emerging and we want to help accelerate that process.

This blog is going to be used to talk about what is going with the WSFinder Wiki as well as interesting thoughts we have on Web 2.0 and Web Services in general.

Drop us a line and let us know what you think! I'm at chrislaw(at)gmail(dot)com

You can get back to the WSFinder Wiki here at http://www.wsfinder.com

Chris