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The SciBite API provides access to SciBite’s real-time drug discovery search engine that combs developments in biotech and pharma. By tracking patents and clinical trials around the globe, scientific news, biomedical reagents and even biomedical job postings, SciBite provides unparalleled intelligence on drugs. Now all that is available for integration through its API. Acording to SciBite, its REST API (that returns JSON, XML and text), “…allows informaticians to access all of our data for their own data mining activities. Perform wide ranging queries to interrogate our semantically tagged news database. Find and mine new connections between drugs, companies, targets and indications. Access our trend analysis and user-ranking data to find the most critical resources.” This intelligence gathering is an old tactic catapulted to new uses with new technology. During World War II, a US intelligence unit was assigned to reading German newspapers as a means of understanding the enemy’s game plan. SciBite isn’t accessing “enemy” information, of course. But like that earlier effort, it concentrates on publicly available information–information that might make you wonder, gee, how can we gain an edge from looking at data that is available to everyone? Intelligence officials during the war were reportedly astounded by what they could learn. Today, SciBite offers the same panoptical scouring of data ranging across the entire fields of drugs and biotechnology, made possible by replacing human news readers with web crawlers searching databases. In offering an API, SciBite further magnifies this tried and true technique of analysis by putting the ability to manipulate it in the hands of those who can do that most effectively–its users. Sponsored byRelated ProgrammableWeb Resources SciBite API Profile

Google introduced a new real-time bidding platform called Open Bidder at Google I/O. It’s currently in beta status, and requires users to apply for testing. It’s described as a customizable toolkit for building real-time bidding applications, and combines Google Cloud Platform with DoubleClick’s real-time bidding. Google’s Open Bidder Team says in a blog post, “Currently, companies interested in building their own real-time bidding technology face significant barriers to overcome, including: Development and maintenance of a scalable and secure infrastructure for their bidder; Development of a robust system to apply bidding logic to incoming bid requests; Development of a bidder with sufficient latency at scale to meet real-time bidding requirements.” “Open Bidder removes these barriers by providing a customizable bidder toolkit with a reference implementation that developers can adapt to plug in their own bidding logic and data,” the team explains. “Additionally, we provide an administration console for managing bidder and load balancer instances within Google Compute Engine. With Open Bidder buyers can significantly lower the latency of their bidders by leveraging Google Compute Engine’s scale, speed, and proximity to DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Now buyers can focus on developing new and innovative bidding logic instead of worrying about the complexity of scaling to over 250,000 qps while responding in under 100ms.” Google has been working on the project for over year, and has been testing it in the alpha phase, but it’s now it’s ready for beta. If you want in on it, you can apply here. Documentation for Open Bidder is available here. Comments

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Hostelbookers has a new API. TippingCircle helps developers organize group payments. Plus: Miami Beach’s tourism API, Angelhack hackathon, and 9 new APIs. Hostelbookers Sees New API Integrated with Channel Managers Hostelbookers, a free service that helps travelers book stays in hostels, is seeing an uptake in properties using its API in preparation for this summer’s season in the EU. Ryan Bennett, Product Manager at HostelBookers, notes that among the list of those working with the API are ASSD, Availpro, BBliverate, GrowingStones, HostelSystem, Hotel-Spider, myallocator and MaxiMojo. and that, “It is exciting that we are finally able to offer our API. A two-way XML connection is the preferred choice for many properties and potential new partners. The fact that we can enhance our product offering on many levels is hugely appealing to us and in the long term, extremely beneficial to our customers.” Use of the API gives Hostelbookers access to a variety of properties that use channel managers for two-way XML. The value to hostel owners is clear: Hostelbookers offers greater visibility–and more business. Bon voyage! TippingCircle Launches New API for Global Social Payments TippingCircle has announced a new API to integrate the ability of users to send and receive money with friends and family in over 190 countries. TippingCircle allows you to split a bill–say a restaurant tab–among friends who then send you the money through their mobile devices. You can also fund raise for causes (see graphic below), start a pool to pay for a birthday gift or event like a wedding, or handle virtually any cost where payments from others need to be pooled. The TippingCircle API gives developers access to its method of integration with social networks, according to the press release: “In addition to P2P payments (person-to-person), the platform offers group payments and social fundraisers using tipping buckets. These buckets can be shared through Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks to collect payments for birthdays, weddings, sports clubs, and other events. Social fundraisers are helping people pay for medical bills, contribute to local non-profits, and support other good causes.” Developers can get started by requesting an API Consumer token, where there is a scaled level of permissions to the API, granted after a quick approval process, designed to protect certain functions and the end user. API News You Shouldn’t Miss Surveillance Planning App is based on Google Maps API SOA Software’s API Gateway Unifies, Integrates Core API Project Capabilities Miami Beach, Fla., Develops Tourism API Down with file attachments! Hail to the Google Docs API update TippingCircle Launches API To Let Developers Integrate Global Social Payments Into Web and Mobile Apps Runscope Lands $1.1M From True Ventures And Andreessen Horowitz For Tools That Address The Broken API Plague AngelHack Hackathon and Accelerator Program Offers Hackers Chance to Win Funding, Mentorship, Prizes and More HostelBookers.com Integrates New API With Multiple Channel Managers 9 New APIs Today we had 9 new APIs added to our API directory including a business sales and shifts information service, a bitcoin transfer service, a pre-order and pre-payment service, a streaming hockey video service and a mobile app installs tracking service. Below is more details on each of these new APIs. Bizimply API: Bizimply is a cloud service for viewing and managing day-to-day business operations. Users can view key numbers, sales targets, employee data, hours worked, customers served, and more from Bizimply’s dashboard. It also provides services for creating business reports and managing documents online. The Bizimply API allows developers to populate metrics with data collected from a business’s EPOS (Electronic Point of Sales) system, automatically generating sales records by shift. CatLab Bitcoin Gateway API: CatLab Inter

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Some Twitter users may have, at some point, had the need to share a conversation or a string of tweets with other people, and would have been left frustrated with the discovery that there wasn’t really a way to do that. This was the very frustration that fuelled the creation of TweetVue; a tool that makes it possible to share Twitter conversations with other people. In addition, TweetVue’s API gives developers access to this data, allowing them to access and share these conversations. A tool like TweetVue would be quite useful in instances where a user may need recaps of current events, recaps on specific conference tweets, to share conversations with friends who may not have otherwise been able to see those conversations, or even just for fun to see tweet conversations between celebrities. The tool allows users to put their name on a conversation, give that conversation a title and link it to a website if need be. In addition, users are able to easily add TweetVue to their bookmark bar for more convenience. TweetVue’s third party API makes it possible for developers’ Twitter clients to send tweets to TweetVue and get backlinks to those tweets, essentially allowing clients to offer a conversation view and a way to share that conversation with others. It supports HTTP GET/POST calls and returns JSON or XML formatted responses. To access an API key and for for further API documentation, developers can head to TweetVue’s website. Sponsored byRelated ProgrammableWeb Resources TweetVue API Profile

As we announced earlier this month at the annual Adobe Max Conference, DMXzone has been working on extension that provides complete support for Twitter Bootstrap in Dreamweaver. With the DMXzone Bootstrap you'll have a crafty tool in your hands to edit your layouts fully visual in DW design view and experience the great bootstrap power with its responsive grid. This and many more comes on DMXzone next week so stay tuned.

Khronos Group, open standards consortium behind some of today’s most innovative technologies, has announced a new initiative to develop an open, royalty-free API for advanced, low-level control of mobile and embedded cameras and sensors. Khronos created the Camera working group to develop the API and is currently recruiting participants. All participants may contribute to the standard and the group will collaborate with other working groups to enhance its effectiveness. Khronos President, Neil Trevett, commented: “This working group has been catalyzed by listening to the application developer community wanting to push back the limits of mobile vision processing. Khronos is the ideal forum to define this low-level, foundational hardware control API that needs deep insights into silicon and sensor design.” Khronos has already begun development on vision and image processing APIs, but it recognized the ongoing lack of a camera API with low-level control of the camera sensor, lens and flash to generate the input image stream needed by cutting-edge computational photography and computer vision. The group aims to create a cross-platform API that offers features like burst control over sensor, flash and lens, system wide time stamping and more. The Camera working group will launch work in July 2013. Those interested in joining the group and contributing to the project can request more information at the Camera working group site. Mobile and embedded devices continue to be equipped with sensors and processing power for advanced camera control; yet, no standards body has addressed control from a unified position. Khronos plans to answer this call in July. Sponsored by