One of the companies that had people talking at Mashup Camp earlier this month was Proto, an application for building “desktop mashups”. As they describe “Using our visual building environment, you can combine web services like Yahoo! Maps and Salesforce.com with desktop apps, like iTunes and Outlook. Build complete ‘composite apps’ in under an [...]
Want new APIs? Five new ones were just listed here at ProgrammableWeb in the past two days. Use them for making recommendations, hosting chat rooms, creating tutorials, managing web sites, or a set of services for getting reference data on anything from VAT rates to NFL team information.
Criteo: From their site “The Criteo predictive [...]
Continuing from Thursday’s best-of mashup roundup, here are a few new mashups worth highlighting. There’s more to these than just pushpins on a map.
GypsyMaps NYC: Yesterday’s Mashup of the Day, this very well designed and executed mashup gives you New York Subway and Bus Maps with interactive point to point directions.
Flickr Group Trackr: Allows you [...]
Flickr is one the most popular mashup platforms: as of today there are 159 Flickr mashups listed here. Now, Flickr made some very interesting enhancements to their service and API this week when they announced Machine Tags.
What are they and how do they relate to the API? From the announcement:
Do you want to search classifieds by photos rather than just text, see where there’s good EVDO wireless coverage, or win a game by showing your proficiency at swearing? If so, then these mashups might be of interest.
listpic: Listpic finds posts to Craigslist that contain pictures and allows one to easily browse through the posts [...]
Time for a quick roundup of some of the more interesting APIs recently listed here. This includes a storage service (as noted here earlier this week, storage in cloud via an API can be a profitable utility service), a Wikipedia wrapper, a US government-supplied service, another photo service, and others.
Omnidrive API: The very useful “universal [...]
Recommended reading this week comes from Redmonk analyst Anne Zelenka in a piece for GigaOM that gives a very good overview on Making Money in the Mashup Economy. This is part of her Mashup Camp 3 coverage — earlier reports are here. A few business models covered include:
Elastic Computing: The primary exemplars here being Amazon’s [...]
Last week’s Mashup Camp showcased some excellent mashups including the two first place winners. Along with those there were some other great contest entries, many of which have been added to the mashup listings here. Here are a few:
gigul8r: Gigul8r helps musicians get their gigs online, so they can share them on Web sites, MySpace, [...]
Yesterday the Mashup Camp attendees reviewed over 15 entries in the mashup competition and placed their votes for the best mashup. And the two top prizes went to:
The Hype Machine: An experiment by Anthony Volodkin that keeps track of songs and discussion posted on the best blogs about music. First prize: a nice new laptop [...]
Mashup Camp 3 at MIT in Boston wrapped-up yesterday. It was another well organized, well attended, very successful event organized by David Berlind and Doug Gold. The week began with two days of Mashup University. Lots of good, interesting discussions, some of which we’ve covered here: What Are Tools for Mashups?, and Making Money from [...]
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