There is an ever-increasing amount of data available on the Web via APIs, waiting to be integrated by product developers. But actually integrating more than just one API into a product poses a problem to developers and their product managers: how do we make the data sources interoperable, both with one another and with our existing databases? Uberblic launches a service today to make that easy.
A location based product, for example, would aim to pull in information like checkins from Foursquare, reviews from Lonely Planet, concerts from LastFM and social connections from Facebook, and display all that along one place’s description. To do that, one would need to identify this particular place in all the APIs – identify the place’s ‘doppelgangers’, if you will. Uberblic does exactly that, mapping doppelgangers across APIs, as a web service. It’s like a dictionary for IDs, the Rosetta Stone of APIs. And geolocation is just the beginning.
Uberblic’s doppelganger engine links data across a variety of data APIs. By matching equivalent records, the engine connects an entity graph that spans APIs and data services. This entity graph provides rich contextual data for product developers, and Uberblic’s APIs serve as a switchboard and broker between data sources.
