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Sports & APIs – A Perfect Fit
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Excerpt: With the baseball season now in full swing, the NBA playoffs underway and the Stanley Cup playoffs right around the corner, it is an exciting time for sports.   And for sports APIs.   In the past few months, there have been a number of exciting events that have brought sports data and sports APIs to center stage. Sports are the perfect use case for APIs.   In a sports game, leads can change every minute, big plays can happen in a second and an injury can end a team’s dream of a championship in an instant.   If you are building an app that focuses on sports, you need to have immediate access to updated data.   That is why sports data API programs have flourished: ESPN, SportsData, CBSSports.... read the full post.
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Going the Distance with Walkscore’s Travel Time API
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Excerpt: You have a hectic business trip to Seattle coming up and its time to choose hotels. Sure, there’s cost, availability, checkout times ad whether it has a pool or gym to consider. But there’s another important factor: proximity. The Travel Time API demo uses Seattle. See graphic below.   You have 4 meetings scheduled over a couple of days: At Amazon’s headquarters, a drop in at Starbucks for a chat with a friend, meet at the headquarters of Walkscore, and then lastly at Zillow. So here’s the question: How can you find a hotel that you can walk to each meeting from, and how can you tell how long it will take to walk to each one? You obviously need to know how long each walk will take so you aren’t late.... read the full post.
Tags: Activity, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Excercise, Quantified-Self, Running, Sports
Today in APIs: ESPN’s API Opened and the BlockAvenue API
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Excerpt: ESPN’s newly opened API. Neighborhood data via the BlockAvenue API. Plus: Disrupt NY hackathon end of April and “we can’t let the Internet of Things become the Tyranny of Things”. As David Eason at Dzone reports, ESPN has released an intuitive, REST-based API that accesses its sports data. He’s done quite a bit of playing with it using the Mule Devkit, and likes what he sees, From headlines to team data and athlete data, from player stats to game schedules, the possibilities are “endless. ” BlockAvenue is now providing its neighborhood data through its API. Partner Rentanna provides a sense of how this can work. Below is a screenshot from Rentenna of rentals at the Vanguard Chelsea.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Local, Sports
Life Fitness' Open API Changes Future of Mobile Fitness Apps, Personalized Workouts
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Excerpt: Climb 100 floors on the stairclimber and earn a free smoothie? According to Life Fitness, the global leader in commercial fitness equipment manufacturing, these scenarios represent the new wave in fitness technology. Life Fitness introduces LFopen, the fitness industry's first and only open API (Application Programming Interface), that is changing the way exercisers interact with fitness equipment and, as a result, the future of fitness facilities. As the first equipment-maker to open its product platform to all developers last October, Life Fitness boasts the only true open API in the fitness industry.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Applications, Fitness, Google, Googlereader, Health, Healthcare, Ifttt, Interface, Programming, Sports
Life Fitness' Open API Changes Future of Mobile Fitness Apps, Personalized Workouts
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Excerpt: SCHILLER PARK, IL--(Marketwire - Mar 5, 2013) - Climb 100 floors on the stairclimber and earn a free smoothie? According to Life Fitness, the global leader in commercial fitness equipment manufacturing, these scenarios represent the new wave in fitness technology. Life Fitness introduces LFopen, the fitness industry's first and only open API (Application Programming Interface), that is changing the way exercisers interact with fitness equipment and, as a result, the future of fitness facilities. As the first equipment-maker to open its product platform to all developers last October, Life Fitness boasts the only true open API in the fitness industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Fitness, Health, Sports
Nike+ Adds API Developer Portal and Announces Accelerator Program
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Excerpt: Nike has launched the Nike+ API developer portal. The portal gives developers access to data captured by Nike+ FuelBand and Nike+ Running through an API. The goal of the developer portal and corresponding APIs consists of a health driven, forward thinking aim: The portal launch coincides with the announcement of the Nike+ Accelerator Program. Nike and TechStars will select 10 teams to develop applications based on the Nike+ platform for a three month period. Applications to participate must be complete by Feb. 3, 2013. Those interested can learn more at the FAQ site. The Nike+ API uses REST protocol and returns data in an XML format.... read the full post.
Tags: Accelerator, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Googlereader, Ifttt, Incubator, ProgrammableWeb, Sports, TechStars
Today in APIs: Nike Launches the Nike+ Developer Portal, Corporate Hackathons and Exploitation, and 11 New APIs
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Excerpt: Nike launches the Nike+ Developer Portal. The thin line between corporate hackathons and exploitation. Plus: Twitter libraries that support the latest version, Facebook cuts off access to Voxer over competition concerns, and 11 new APIs. Nick Summers reports in TNW that Nike has launched its Nike+ Developer portal ahead of it’s March startup accelerator. The event is organized around Techstars to identify developers who will create products and services for athletes using Nike+. As Summers reports, Nike stands out, Applications for the Nike+ Accelerator are open until February 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Athletics, Googlereader, Ifttt, Nike, ProgrammableWeb, Sports
How to create your developer account and apply for API keys
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Excerpt: This video walks you through the process of creating a developer account on ACTIVE Access (developer. active. com). It also explains how to apply for API keys and explore the API documentation. You can also learn how to sync your developer account with your affiliate account in order to earn commission from transactions that occur from your API implementation.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Content, Outdoor, Outdoors, Races, Sports
Livefyre launches on FOXSports.com
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Excerpt: Sports and social media were made for each other. You can watch the game and chat with your fellow fans and foes simultaneously on Twitter, you can keep the friendly childhood rivalries burning on Facebook, and blogs let you publish your views any topic from what LeBron was really thinking when he moved to Miami to your brother’s regrettable trade in fantasy football. Well sports fans, now you can express your unique perspective on every aspect of sporting news on FOX Sports sites in real-time conversations powered by Livefyre. Starting today, you can immerse yourself in sports conversations from around the world on FOXSports. com on MSN, and SPEED. com with other FOX Sports sites coming soon.... read the full post.
Tags: Comments, FoxSports, Livefyre, Network, Real-Time, Sports
Congratulations to SportsData LLC, The Latest API as a Product
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Excerpt: Here at Mashery, we admire the trendsetting that our customers bring to their markets. This year, creating APIs as products is one of the ways we see customers pushing the envelope in their markets. APIs as products help companies scale across new channels at rapid speeds because they simplify how developers discover, use and compensate companies for their products via APIs. Today we congratulate SportsData LLC on their new API, and on delivering a significant advancement in how the sports industry is evolving how it offers data for apps, games and websites.... read the full post.
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