[4eyes] Blog and catalog of Web APIs

[Saiph Savage]

Folks,



Searching for Web APIs (Like Twitter’s, yelp's,Netflix’,mtd's , etc.), I
found the site “Programmable Web”:

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory



The link above is for a catalog of APIs for everything from Twitter to
Weather Underground to piles of weird little data sources I’ve never heard
of.  I thought this could be very helpful for the people in the lab that
were working with Twitter, Facebook and other related data.



The site also has a blog which reports on new APIs they’ve found.  Very
handy.



Also, if you haven’t looked at http://www.data.gov/, it’s worth a look.  The
site is the result of the initiative to make more US Government data
accessible to the public – and more importantly for the lab, accessible in
machine-readable formats.  From that site you can download databases or
connect to live sites dealing with where wildlife refuges are, on-time
arrival stats for airlines, water quality assessments, weather forecasts,
earthquake occurrences, mass transit usage stats, surveys of what people do
with their time, Education, IRS, FBI, Homeland Security, Census, and piles
and piles of other stuff. (Your tax dollars at work!..)


Cheers~





-- 
Norma Saiph Savage
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