Just a quick post on some good recent links on widgets and Pipes. First off, with 11 widget APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb and thousands of widgets created to run on them, widgets are something you’ll be hearing more about here.
Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1 and Part 2: Dion Hinchcliffe gives a good run-down of [...]
Some of the most interesting mashup possibilities surround government and politics, so it’s great to see the Sunlight Foundation yesterday announced the Mashup Congress Contest:
The Sunlight Foundation is celebrating Sunshine Week with a $2,000 prize for the best “Web 2.0 Mashup” about Congress. The contest deadline is March 17.
Contest judges are digital technology pioneer Esther [...]
SQL is going social with Facebook’s newly announced data access mechanism the Facebook Query Language. What is it? From their site:
Last week we released a whole new version of Platform. On the surface it may look similar to the old version, but under the hood it is a totally new implementation. And, starting today you [...]
Looking beneath the covers of the collective buzz around yesterday’s launch of Google Apps for Your Domain Premium hides a new set of Google APIs that, as they describe, allow you to “integrate and extend”. How? With their new Provisioning and Single Sign-On APIs.
See our new ProgrammableWeb entries: Google Provisioning API and the Google [...]
Here’s a set of fun and sometimes useful mashups. Use them to help with: where to go to lunch today, how to get the cheapest event tickets, and visualizing the vast amounts of data you can get with the Google Base API.
Wheel of Food: The most fun way to pick a restaurant near you. Enter [...]
Yesterday, Trulia, the real estate search startup, and one of the oldest mashups on this site, just announced their new API. This REST-based API provides access to two primary types of data: local real estate price trends and real estate search behavior online. It should lead to some very interesting mashups.
This release is also notable [...]
The latest APIs added to ProgrammableWeb once again cover quite a range: new web services for photo and media sharing, questions and answers, authorizing online payments, and getting details on your US government representatives.
Faces.com: Use the extensive APIs from Faces.com to manage media, do geo-searches, check profiles, manage blogs, post comments, and manage profiles. Both [...]
It’s hard to find an online real estate site today that does not in some way incorporate maps. And so it’s no surprise that another of the top ten tags at ProgrammableWeb is “realestate”, now with 78 mashups tagged realestate. Keep in mind that the first, and still one of the best all-time mashups, is [...]
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OpenKapow: The online mashup builder community that lets you easily make mashups. Use [...]
Recommended reading is Olag Kharif’s brief report in this week’s BusinessWeek on “Social-Networking Sites Open Up”. It has the sub-head “Facebook, Friendster, and others are starting to let third-party developers build new features to attract more users – and profits”. The article predicts many of the bigger social network sites like MySpace, LinkedIn, and Friendster [...]
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