Wow! Yahoo announced yesterday its new Yahoo! Updates Firehose service in initial release. This thing sounds massive: “Yahoo! Updates aggregates social updates from Yahoo! and across the Web: It includes a real-time […]
New York Times Congress API: Version 3
Oh, New York Times, how you irritate me with your constant talk of a paywall (I don’t care if you institute it, I’m just tired of hearing the endless coy reveal and […]
Monitoring Site for API Services
WatchMouse last week launched a new site called API Status, available at http://api-status.com/. This Web site is very simple; it just monitors the status of APIs. The site monitors the performance of […]
More Subject Headings for NYT Data
The New York Times’ Open Blog announced this morning the addition of about 5,000 new subject headings to the Linked Open Data repository at http://data.nytimes.com/. I covered the initial release of 5,000 […]
WorldCat Releases a Basic API
WorldCat announced last week the availability of a basic API. The new API isn’t as fancy as the WorldCat Search API, but does provide information on authors, titles, ISBNs, and OCLC numbers. […]