Folks interested in "open knowledge" should check out CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of...

The fledgling location-based social networking service Brightkite, itself in limited beta, have announced the first release of its beta API (our API profile). The service...

Mass transit in metropolitan regions is becoming an increasingly popular mode of transportation for commuters faced with ever-increasing oil prices. As a result, there...

BroadSoft’s recent announcement of their new RESTful API and the supporting mashup contest is another sign that larger telephone operators will soon support...

This week TechCrunch announced an open API for its CrunchBase database of tech organizations and related information. The quickly growing repository contains structured...

Some exciting media API news this week as National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that it will release a public API in the coming days. NPR, an internationally...

Last.fm has announced a major upgrade to their API. Last.fm API 2.0 is replacing Last.fm’s original API, which is now considered legacy. Last.fm’s API is one...

ESRI, a leading GIS software provider, has released a public version of its ArcGIS JavaScript API that allows developers to integrate GIS functionality with web...

Today Yahoo announced the contest winners for the best uses of its SearchMonkey platform. SearchMonkey is a cornerstone of the Y!OS (Yahoo! Open Strategy) that we...

Yahoo has taken a major step in the evolution of search APIs with today’s release of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). The BOSS platform lets developers build...

In the past two weeks, video related mashups have been the largest category of new mashups added to the ProgrammableWeb mashups catalog. In the two weeks ending on July...

Can we exploit the extraordinary ability that humans have to read faces to make sense of abstract data — by rendering data as concrete facial features?...