9 New API Consoles: Stuff Geeks Love for Your Holiday Hacking »

Our holiday gift to you: nine brand-new API Consoles to assist and inspire you in your holiday hacking. Apigee API Consoles make it easier to learn, test and explore APIs by letting you view request/response pairs, get past authentication quickly and find problems faster. We've hand-picked nine of our favorite APIs on the cutting edge: from APIs that help you predict the future, solve your coding questions, track your quantified self, or harness facial recognition technology, there's something here for every geek. 

You can check out all 30+ of the APIs we support, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, on the API Providers page. Here's a sneak peek at the new ones:  

Freebase: Read and write access to the Freebase graph of people, places and things. 

 PageSpeed: Integrate PageSpeed performance analysis into your development workflow. 

Ruby Gems: Interact with RubyGems.org to query and create gems, mange owners and more.**

** (Thanks to Sebastian Spier, who first built out the Ruby Gems Console on his blog - check it out! Thanks Sebastian.)

Face.com: Build applications with facial recognition capability. 

Stack Exchange: Create apps or scripts that can access Stack Exchange questions, answers, comments, badges and more. 

Google Prediction: Harness Google's cloud-based machine learning tools to analyze your data. 

Google Web Fonts: Include high-quality web fonts in any web page. 

Pivotal Tracker: Access and manipulate agile project management data including projects, stories and tasks. 

Fitbit: Bring Fitbit health data into your apps, including user activities, sleep, heart, glucose and blood pressure information. 

Let us know what you think, and other APIs you want to see. Email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).