Going the Distance with Walkscore’s Travel Time API
blog.programmableweb.com
on 04/15/2013
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
Mashup Idea using Fleetly API
developer.active.com
on 01/08/2013
Excerpt: Fleetly recently announced the release of their Fleetly API to allow access to a rich range fitness content and information, including exercises, workouts, images and videos. It uses an OAuth 2. 0 login interface and access to the API is via calls to www. fleetly. com/api. This API might be used in conjuction with the ACTIVE APIs to create a unique mashup application that combines workouts and real events available for registration. Have you come across any interesting APIs that might make for a cool, new mashup? Let us know in the comments below. About Fleetly:
Fleetly is a fitness website that hopes to to increase user participation and achievement by making the activities social and competitive.... read the full post.
Tags: Activity, API-Evangelist, Content, Fitness, Outdoors
Excerpt: Fleetly recently announced the release of their Fleetly API to allow access to a rich range fitness content and information, including exercises, workouts, images and videos. It uses an OAuth 2. 0 login interface and access to the API is via calls to www. fleetly. com/api. This API might be used in conjuction with the ACTIVE APIs to create a unique mashup application that combines workouts and real events available for registration. Have you come across any interesting APIs that might make for a cool, new mashup? Let us know in the comments below. About Fleetly: Fleetly is a fitness website that hopes to to increase user participation and achievement by making the activities social and competitive.... read the full post.
Tags: Activity, API-Evangelist, Content, Fitness, Outdoors
