With Google’s recently released GData API for Google Base (see the ProgrammableWeb API database entry here), there is renewed debate on their grand strategy. Is it a better mousetrap? Lock-in? Neither? For good commentary see these posts from Marc Canter and Chris Messina (with lots of trackbacks from there leading to more discussion). In the [...]
A year ago this week ProgrammableWeb launched. Of course it’s been quite a year here and a lot has changed since then. Just start with the core database: there has been a sixfold increase in the number of APIs and ten times as many mashups. Here are the basic numbers:
320 blog posts
262 APIs
942 mashups
From a [...]
It is not primarily about APIs and mashups, but Amazon has once again upped the web-as-platform ante, this time with yesterday’s announcement of EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud. What is it? A form of on-demand utility computing that enables fast, cost-effective provisioning of services via virtual server instances you setup on Amazon’s infrastructure. This provides scalability [...]
Mike Pegg does a great job tracking the most interesting maps mashups over at his Google Maps Mania. Occasionally he also does a roundup of tools for creating or enhancing Google Maps. Follow this link to see his eighth roundup of these tools along with links to the previous seven roundups. Good mix of Google [...]
Alex Bosworth over at Source Labs (and creator of the great open source resource SWiK) writes consistently good posts and Monday’s was no exception: How to Provide a Web API. In it he addresses the question of “What are a few simple rules for providing a web API?” with these five points:
Keep it clean and [...]
Every day ProgrammableWeb has a Mashup of the Day featured on the home page and the Mashup Dashboard. Today’s is a unique one in that there’s a lot more money at stake than usual: it’s the Salesforce for Google AdWords application which combines Salesforce.com and Google AdWords.
It’s based on a product from search marketing [...]
At some point before long mashups will start becoming more utilitarian and less one-off novelties. Currently one of the more useful utilities built on web APIs is the blueorganizer Firefox extension from adaptiveblue (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor). It’s a “smart bookmarking” tool well suited to managing links related to products and media — books, movies, music [...]
There has been a lot of notable API and mashup-related news, product launches and commentary lately. Here is a rundown of some of the better ones:
The very interesting Dapper service officially launched yesterday. It is designed to allow anyone, including non-coders, to create an API for any web site (akin to earlier discussions here about [...]
Amazon’s Jeff Barr has an interesting post about shopping at the Life2Life store in the virtual world Second Life. The store blends the real and virtual by creatively building on the Amazon API and the Second Life API. In that virtual store you can search the Amazon catalog, discover items, add them to your cart, [...]
In one of the year’s more interesting API announcements, the hugely successful social networking site Facebook launched their own API this week. Up to this point most social networking sites including MySpace have been notoriously walled gardens (back in February I reported on a home-grown Facebook API). For a high-level overview of this one, [...]
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