<p class="MsoNormal">Folks,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Searching for Web APIs (Like Twitter’s, yelp's,<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Netflix’</span>,mtd's ,
etc.), I found the site “Programmable Web”:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory">http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The site also has a blog which reports on new APIs they’ve
found. Very handy.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Also, if you haven’t looked at <a href="http://www.data.gov/">http://www.data.gov/</a>,
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!..)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers~<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Norma Saiph Savage<br><br><br><br>