Tom Evslin, in a typically thoughtful pair of posts, Bubble 2.0 – It’s The APIs and Bubble 2.0 – Why Not APIs?, addressed the topic of APIs. Beginning with a concise historical background he covers the strategy behind providing APIs and answers the question, why would a provider not want to build an API? [...]
Adam DuVander has used the RSS feed of the Washington Post and Google Maps to create a World News Maps. There have been other news maps mashups before but the useful variation here is how it tries to show a simple interpretation of newsworthiness. How? By using color to represent the quantity of stories in [...]
Some market segments have taken to adding maps as features to their sites more quickly than others: real estate, job search, news, and anything ‘local’ (even the seminal mashup HousingMaps was all about real estate). Following along that path of local content, the latest category of sites leveraging maps are the new generation of community [...]
Want to know which mashups and other examples people find most interesting? Try programmableweb.com/popular. As inspired by del.icio.us/popular this new feature lets you see which links are most popular with users. In this case rather than users’ bookmarks it’s mashups and other API examples. It’s a little feature but kind of interesting to see.
There are [...]
Colin M. Saunders has used web services to create two unique stock market type games. The first, AlexaDex, is a market-style game based on website values. You sign-up and start out with $10K of funny money you can invest in URLs. The value of any given URL goes up or down over time based on [...]
When Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf was asked what he thought of the mashup phenomenon in a new ComputerWorld interview he responded:
I can’t tell you how excited I am about it. We know we don’t have a corner on creativity. There are creative people all around the world, hundreds of millions of [...]
Auction Mapper is an interesting little application built on the eBay API that gives fast Flash-based search results on a map (and not Google or other public API map). But it’s useful for being more search than map. Sliders above map that display items based on criteria such a price, number of bids, time/deadline, and [...]
So in all of the recent flurry of new Yahoo! APIs where most attention went to Maps (again), there were a couple others worth noting:
Term Extraction API: This service returns a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. It’s a contextual search technology and is one of the technologies used in [...]
Mark Zeman has created Flickrmap, a web service that allows you to put a Flash based world map on your own website or blog. Flickrmap automatically searches your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Flickrmap. It maps photos based on tags you supply like city or country name [...]
Frederic Vavrille, based in France, created LivePlasma, a visually rich Flash application that builds on the Amazon recommendation API to show the relationship between movies, bands, actors, etc. Similar to the previously mentioned CoverPop you can go straight from interacting to making purchases. [via]
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