<p>Showcase your Location app in the second edition of Foursquare Global Hackathon. CardShark, an API for Business Card transcription. Plus: RunKeeper at Quantified Self, Build an App on the human genome via the 23andMe API and 14 new APIs.Foursquare Global Hackathon is back</p><p>The second edition of the Foursquare Global Hackathon is back. This edition focuses on the Connected Apps Platform, which lets you augment the Foursquare experience with your application. It will be held on November 3 and you can participate in the all-day event at Foursquare's NYC or San Francisco office. Global participants can also take part via various Foursquare Meetup groups. The prizes are sure to be interesting with last years winners getting a championship belt and also being featured on the Times Square giant screen. To sign up, visit the Meetup page and follow hackathon.foursquare.com for more news.FullContact previews CardShark API for Business Card Transcription</p><p>Do you have a pile of business cards and wished that there was a solution to not just transcribe this information but also push that into your CRM? FullContact, that is focused on solving the world's contact problem has released CardShark , an API that helps you do exactly that. The process is simple: Scan a Card, POST the image via the CardShark API and receive a JSON/XML record in minutes. The CardShark API is currently free to use in Beta phase.</p><p>23andMe, an API to explore the Human Genome</p><p><a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/09/14/today-in-apis-foursquare-hackathon-cardshark-api-personal-genome-api-and-14-new-apis/">Keep reading...</a></p>