ProgrammableWeb Features API Contest Winners

Aug 5, 2008 | No Comments

Recently ProgrammableWeb featured the winners of the WeatherBug API contest. It’s great to the have ProgrammableWeb sharing the winners with their audience as we have with ours. As previously mentioned, each entry was well done and all of the participants did a fantastic job with their submissions. As we have mentioned previously, the winners of [...]

WeatherBug API Winners Announced

Jul 22, 2008 | 3 Comments

The WeatherBug API contest has been a tremendous success. We had so many entries submitted that even after we have reviewed and judged each of them, I am still working to get each of them posted here at Inside WeatherBug. Having said this, if you find that you did not win this time around, you [...]

AirMe – WeatherBug API Entry

Jul 19, 2008 | One Comment

With Apple’s latest iPhone release, the new iPhone App Store has been all the rage. Well as it turns out, one of our entries to the WeatherBug API Contest was an iPhone application that not only adds a whole new dimension to uploading photos to Flickr, it does so while providing a tag relating to [...]

WeatherTrac – WeatherBug API Entry

Jul 17, 2008 | No Comments

As programming languages go, Perl is for me at least, is one of the great ones. And it is in this spirit that I was thrilled to see that we we have a Perl entry to the WeatherBug API contest. This bundle of Perl programs is known as WeatherTrac. WeatherTrac is at its heart, a [...]

Major League Baseball Weather Widget – WeatherBug API Entry

Jul 11, 2008 | No Comments

PHP has been on fire throughout the WeatherBug API contest it seems. And who can blame the developers, it is rather flexible which in turn provides a world of functionality for everyone involved. Today’s WeatherBug API entry is going to grab the attention of most of the baseball fans here in the States in a [...]

WeatherBug On Programmable Web

Jun 17, 2008 | No Comments

Today I was alerted to WeatherBug’s API contest receiving press in the Programmable Web blog. Some of the highlights include: How the WeatherBug API provides access to over 8,000 weather tracking stations. How developers can use the API to display live weather conditions, daily forecasts, United States camera images and severe weather alerts. That the [...]

Twitter Up Some Weather Data

Jun 8, 2008 | No Comments

I have fast become a fan of Twitter over other social networking tools, however one thing I would just love to see is a Twitter setup for my local weather! Well the other day I happened upon this tool that pings Twitter using the provided PHP code as you see in the article. The basic [...]

A Weather API In Action

Jun 2, 2008 | 3 Comments

Providing a good API is not just allowing developers to take your data and create mashup programs for others to enjoy, it is also about ensuring that your company has its hand on the pulse of what the users are asking for. Having a firm grasp on what their users want already by launching their [...]

The Weather On Your Dash

May 15, 2008 | No Comments

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/wlMpmecVKuU" width="325" height="250" wmode="transparent" /] First it was the Magellan Maestro(TM) Elite 5340+GPRS, now Dash Express has jumped on the bandwagon with their inclusion and access to WeatherBug data for their brand of next-gen GPS unit. Thanks to the MyDash portal, Dash users will be able to discover and add-on new applications to further [...]

WeatherBug For Linux Is Live!

May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

After months of work and beta testing on a multitude of Linux distributions, WeatherBug is proud to redefine the way we retrieve weather data on the Linux platform. Initially launched on Linspire’s CNR.com website, WeatherBug for Linux is the aftermath of the success seen with the previous beta application, WeatherBug Tempest. So what is new? [...]