www.apifinder.com - the essential directory for application programming interfaces

What is APIFinder? APIFinder is a growing index of various application programming interfaces (APIs). An API provides a set of instructions that you can use to make new software interoperate with existing applications. This site is also a place to share ideas and advice on how to use APIs in your programming. This site grows in part through community contribution so please submit your favorite APIs as well as articles and API-related projects today!

BDLive.com Developers' Disc

The BD Live developer disc includes sample code, definition of available APIs and allows for collaboration. This includes the ability for developers to download each others applications to their home theater. The API's allow the quick creation of user-friendly DVD-like experiences. Check it out

BDLive.com Developers' Disc
The BD Live developer disc includes sample code, definition of available API’s and allows for collaboration. This includes the ability for developers to download each other’s applications to their home theater. The API's allow the quick creation of user-friendly DVD-like experiences.

By: Mike Rohde

Date Added: 05/07/08

Notches API
Notches is a free, open, universal platform for reviews. The platform does normalization, entity aliasing, summarization, personalization, spam prevention, gaming detection, and recommendations and provides total access to the database via the API.
Additional Reviews-related API's:

Yahoo! User Product Review API

QuarkRank API

Yelp API

By: APIFinder.com Staff

Date Added: 05/05/08

Orange Suite of Social Network APIs
Orange now offers several APIs for all types of Web 2.0, SaaS and Social Network solutions.
Additional Social Network-related API's:

Open Social API

Facebook API

Digg API

By: APIFinder.com Staff

Date Added: 05/05/08

Google AJAX Language API
Translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript with the AJAX Language API.
Additional AJAX-related API's:

By: APIFinder.com Staff

Date Added: 05/05/08

BookMooch API
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. All the API calls support XML output, by adding &o=xml on the GET url line.
Additional book-related API's:

ISBNdb API

O'Reilly Safari API

By: APIFinder.com Staff

Date Added: 04/30/08

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Build Your Own Messaging Application in Java with jYMSG
This new Java API provides you all the necessary functionality to build your own messaging application in conjunction with Yahoo's instant messaging and chat software.

By: Glen Kunene

Date Added: 02/08/08

iPhone Development: Pros, Cons & Resources for the iPhone SDK
This article discusses why you should or should not use Apple's iPhone SDK. Also discussed are some limitations to the SDK along with available resources to help you develop applications. By Andrew Reutter and Andrew Trent
By: areutter Date Added: 03/26/08

Building Executive Dashboards with Google Chart
Implement dynamic, entirely browser-based executive dashboards with the freely available Google Chart API graphing library.
By: ebegoli Date Added: 03/20/08

Using Google's Data API in Brew: An Introduction
Add functionality to your Brew applications with IWEB and Google's powerful Calendar API.
By: haseman Date Added: 02/08/08

Building Robust UIs in Mono with Gtk#
Learn to use the native Gtk# GUI toolkit to build Mono-based desktop applications today.
By: atroelsen Date Added: 02/07/08

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Clean Up Function Syntax Mess with decltype

The funky syntax of a function's return type isn't just unreadable in many cases~~#151;it's also a common source of maintenance problems. However, with the new decltype operator your functions will look much cleaner and easier to maintain.

Sutter Speaks: The Future of Concurrency

What does the future hold for concurrency? What will happen to the tools and techniques around concurrent programming? In part two of our series, concurrency guru Herb Sutter talks about these issues and what developers need to be reading to understand concurrency.

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Comparing Multi-Core Processors for Server Virtualization

Intel IT tested servers based on select Intel multi-core processors to analyze the potential role of each in our data center server virtualization strategy.