Mobile Data Wonderland - Finding the right API
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This was a presentation I gave way back in 2010 for a Mobile Summit at Yahoo. While many of the APIs mentioned in this presentation are no longer usable, it's worth uploading as a bit of history. I've removed links to internal Yahoo APIs.
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Mobile Data Wonderland - Finding the right API
- 1. Mobile Data Wonderland Where did you get that API? Mobile Developers Summit 2010 Ted DRAKE
- 2. Where are you now? • You know how to build a mobile app • You know how to make it accessible • You know how to populate it with YQL • You know how to make it look purty • But do you know where to get the content?
- 3. • Geo Specific Information • News, Sports, Weather • Social Networky stuff • Information from the Device • Music and Entertainment • Travel • Personal Stuff • A Final Answer • Cool data What do you need?
- 4. Where am I? • Get Geo Locations: Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Yahoo! PlaceMaker, Google Places, Place Cast, BuddyCloud • Share Locations: Yahoo! Fire Eagle, Spot2.be, OpenGeoTracker • Mapping: Yahoo! Maps, Open StreetMaps, Google Elevations, Koordinates GeoReach, Spot2.be, Google Latitudes
- 5. What can I see? • News and Events: Local News, Upcoming • Local Shops: Yahoo! Local, Yelp, GeoReach • Traffic: Yahoo! Traffic, SF Muni
- 6. It bleeds - It leads News • News: Yahoo! News, Finance, BOSS news search, New York Times, NPR • Trends: Daylife, OneRiot • Government Data: Sunlight Labs, Drumbone, Good Guide, Transparency Data, LittleSis, U.N. Data
- 7. It bleeds - It leads Sports • Sports Data: Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports • Social Athletes: Active, Fan Feedr, OpenFooty, Motorsport Reg, Golf, Run Saturday
- 8. It bleeds - It leads Weather • Weather Data: Yahoo! Weather , Weather Underground, NWS • Environment: First Look, OpenEco, Amee, GDAC [YQL], USGS
- 9. I just ... • Social Networks: Facebook, Four Square, Flickr, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Twilio, FriendFeed, Gowalla, MeetUp • Connections: Yahoo Mail / Messenger /Contacts • Shoutouts: Yahoo! Meme, Twitter, Google Buzz, Social Graph • Sharing: Face, Bu.mp, Notify Me, Whoozy,Twitrpix
- 10. I just ... • Social Activity: Yahoo! Firehose, Social Mention, Delicious • Social Analysis: Klee,, Meaning Tool, InfoChimps • Social Trends: Mood of the Nation, Poll Daddy, What the Trend
- 11. I need a beat • Music Data: Yahoo! Music, Billboard, BBC Music, last.fm, iTunes, ArtistData • Tickets: Ticketfly, Ticketmaster • Movies: The Movie Database, Netflix, Yahoo! Mobile Video • Music Engines: Bandcamp, Grooveshark, eMusic, JamBase, Spotify, Soundcloud, 8tracks • Comics: ComicVine
- 12. Are we there yet? • Airplanes: Runway Finder, Flig.ht, FlightCaster, FlightView[$], Flight Wise [$], Pidgets • Locations: Flickr Places, Snapfish, To.uri.st • Translations: Forvo • Travel Guides: Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Travel, NileGuide, Dopplr, Lonely Planet • Reservations: Hotwire, GroopBuy, Kayak • Trip Plans: TripIt
- 13. I’m learning • Contextual and Semantic: Yahoo! CAP, Zemanta, Open Calais • Search: BOSS, Hakia, WolframAlpha • References: Biblia, Yahoo! Spelling Suggestions, Yahoo! Answers, Thesaurus, Wikipedia • Science: ChemCaster, DeepDyve, Biodiversity, NCBI, PLOS, cPath, AMEE
- 14. • Astronomy: HelioViewer • Archeology: OpenContext • Legal: WebLaws • Reading: Feedbooks I’m learning
- 15. I am, I have, I owe • Market: E*Trade, xIgnite [$], SEC Watch, Ameritrade, Kaching • Currency: Exchange Rate, Xurrency • Payments: PayPal, WePay • People Search: White Pages, Zoom Info • Jobs: HotJobs, Linkup • Business Services: Time 2.0, Zoho, Remember the Milk, Bill.com, Blinksale
- 16. I am, I have, I owe • Personal Finance: Yahoo! Finance portfolios, Intuit • Real Estate: Trulia,Fizber, Zillow, Walk Score, Rent Rent, Rentrange • Shopping: StickyBits, Zappos, Etsy, ShopZilla • Goodstuff: All for Good, Kiva, Donors Choose
- 17. What is my phone doing? • On the phone: Intel CPU, Prowl, Ericsson • Carriers: Sprint Telephony, Orange Voice • Specs: WURFL, Handset Detection
- 18. Resources • Programmable Web • Many of these APIs are in Y.Q.L. • Mashable • Hacker News
Editor's Notes
- Buddy Cloud and PlaceMaker will find locations from a text sample Open Street Maps: data can be stored locally for offline usage Koordinates: layers for maps, such as what side of a hill is the most shady
- GeoReach: Location based services, retail
- NPR: National Public Radio
- Active: Highschool sports Fan Feeder: sports aggregator OpenFooty: Soccer Sports: rss feeds Fantasy Sports: api
- NWS: National Weather Service GDAC - Global Disaster Alerts Amee: energy usage around the world - has yql table First Look: wind, solar, water data
- Twitrpix: upload image to flickr and twitter Klee: Internal service that filters twitter InfoChimps: twitter authority service
- Klee: Internal service that filters twitter InfoChimps: twitter authority service Yahoo! Firehose:
- Mobile Video: returns mobile optimized video content
- Pidgets: airport finder Dopplr: community travel information FlightCaster: on time predictions Internal Yahoo! Travel is a yql table to their vespa database. contact Joe Donovan josephd@yahoo-inc.com for any travel-specific data usage. This may require clearance for licensing.
- PLOS: Public Library of Science DeepDyve: scientific and medical journals cPath: medical search and database AMEE: compute carbon footprint ncbi: The National Center for Biotechnology Information - access to biomedical and genomic information.
- HelioViewer: solar events All for Good: volunteer opportunities First Look: wind, solar, water data
- WePay - Rasmus startup, group money management
- WePay - Rasmus startup, group money management Fizber: has neighborhood data, such as school information Walk Score: How walker friendly is a nieghborhood Rent Rent: Craigslist ads via an api Kiva: microloans
- WURFL returns all information about the phone. Handset Detection does similar Intel CPU returns hte current status of the intel processor Prowl: hooks into apple’s Growl service