Pinch Media Google Gadget released Thursday, May 21st, 2009

I’m announcing another API-related project from our users today, this time from @shifted1reality – a Pinch Media Google gadget. If you’re using iGoogle for your personalized homepage, you can now get your Pinch Media stats there.

For more interesting things you could do with our API, see our previous post.

‘Pinch Media Watcher’ iPhone application released Monday, May 4th, 2009

When we launched our developer API, we were hoping developers would use it to fill in gaps in our product offering – and you have! The first of a few interesting projects (that we know of – but we also like surprises) has launched: the Pinch Media Watcher, a native iPhone SDK application for viewing your application’s stats. Thanks to Graham Abbott, the developer, who built and released the application.

There’s still a ton of other projects we’d love to see built with our API. Just off the top of our heads, this includes:

  • dashboard widgets, for a variety of platforms
  • a native OS X application
  • integration with other iPhone service providers, including sales report parsers
  • e-mail alerts, text messaging, RSS feeds, etc. for easier consumption of stats
  • a ‘has my application been tested yet?’ service
  • sales and usage data ‘co-ops’ – share yours to see others’
  • integration into other analytics products
  • website ‘flair’ – show off that unique user number!
  • better data visualizations (don’t like our graphs? make a new interface…)
  • Twitter / IM bots for stats retrieval

If you’re working on one of these, or any other project involving our API, let us know — we’d love to help you promote it.

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