Four months ago we launched the WhitePages.com Developer API to the general public and at the time we were going to be excited if we had a hundred active developers using the API within the first year. I can proudly report that we have greatly exceeded our initial expectations.
There have been conversations springing up on other online forums, people requesting it be integrated into their favorite application and over five hundred active developers. One fifth of those have queried our API over a thousand times and many of those have exceeded ten thousand queries. Several small search engines have integrated our API into their results and two developers have launched Applications into the Apple iPhone store.
In conjunction with the launch of the API we announced a contest for the best iPhone application and the best social networking application to utilize the API. I’d like to give my thanks to all those developers who entered the contest. We saw some really great entries but alas there can be only two winners of the MacBook Pro’s we are awarding.
Adam Leonard of Caffeinated Cocoa won first place for his iPhone application ‘People’. ‘People’ is an excellent straight implementation of our services on the iPhone and allows people to save or merge pertinent results directly with their phones address book.
Trevor Hall took first in the social networking category for his facebook.com application ‘Visual Directory’. ‘Visual Directory’ encourages a real world connection with your friends by finding and mapping likely matches and providing contact information.
Coming in second were Philippe Furlan with an integration of the reverse_phone API into his ‘SearchQuest GPS’ iPhone application and Bryce Baril of Market Outsider for PartyBot.
You can see more about the contest at developer.whitepages.com or via this press release
This posting is also cross posted to our developers blog.
