One API to Link Them All

[maxstoller]

Foursquare is working on a venue harmonization map that does this. See: http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/03/14/1up-the-importance-of-...

[dannyr]

For our startup, we are matching place ids to different services which includes Yelp, Facebook Places, Google Places, and Foursquare.

We plan to make this publicly available thru an API when we have thousands of places matched.

[jtwb]

This sounds like YQL, e.g. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=show%20tables&....

[mikeknoop]

I think it comes down to marketing. I did not know YQL offered proxy access to all those APIs.

[cao825]

See also: http://www.TheEasyAPI.com

[kylek]

Quick note for OP - I got two copies of the signup email after signing up

[raintrees]

And in the darkness, bind them? Who is Uberblic Labs Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschraenkt)? My German is non-existent...