Microsoft Maps Mashups

John Musser, September 30th, 2005

A interesting set of mashups built on Microsoft MapPoint and MSN Virtual Earth (many available at the Virtual Earth Gallery):

NASA Space Station Map: See the current location of the NASA Space Station overlaid onto a MSN Virtual Earth (VE) map.
geotagr: Use MSN Virtual Earth to geotag your Flickr photos or browse tagged photos on VE [...]


Mashups: Tagzania, Hibbard, LinkPut

John Musser, September 29th, 2005

Since the Mashup Matrix went up this week there’ s been lots of positive feedback, new mashups submitted, and site traffic has gone up again (thanks in part to pickups by O’Reilly Radar, BusinessWeek and activity from del.icio.us).
Here’s some of the added mashups:

Tagzania: Social bookmarking and folksonomies for Google Maps .
Where’s Tim Hibbard?: Interesting [...]


Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix is Online

John Musser, September 26th, 2005

The Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix is now online here at ProgrammableWeb.
What is it? It’s an experimental interactive grid with Web 2.0 API’s along each axis and the intersecting cells correspond to the mashups made by combining each pair of APIs. As you move the cursor across the grid a box dynamically displays [...]


Hurricane Rita Mapped

John Musser, September 23rd, 2005

Near real-time tracking of Hurricane Rita overlaid onto a Google Map. From the Central Florida Hurricane Center.


Urban Dictionary

John Musser, September 23rd, 2005
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Two API additions today:

Urban Dictionary: an API for when you’re curious about what frontin, party foul, low pro po, and tool really mean.
AmphetaRate: a news feed aggregation service.


Examples: Web Cams and Deals

John Musser, September 22nd, 2005

Examples added today:

Dealazon: an Amazon API-based appliction from Pete Freitag. Offers deal search and RSS subscriptions.
Web Cam Locator: uses Google Maps to show web cams by location.


A Couple More Mashups

John Musser, September 21st, 2005

A couple of interesting mashups:

Placeopedia: allows you to geographically place Wikipedia articles on top of Google maps.
Daily Mashup: combines currently popular items from Flickr, Del.icio.us, furl, and Yahoo News.


CheapGas and SmugMaps

John Musser, September 20th, 2005

A couple of examples / mashups added:

Cheap Gas: a clever way to find cheap gas (if that’s still possible) via combination of Google Maps and gas price data.
smugMaps: overlays smugMug photos onto Google Maps.


HotOrNot API

John Musser, September 18th, 2005

A couple of interesting additions to the API database:

HotOrNot, the dating/rating site that had quite a buzz last year, also offers an API. There’s also a fun mashup of this with Google Maps.
Cdyne provides a variety of data over web services. For example, includes Phone Verifier and Credit Card Verifier functions. Primarily a commercial, [...]


Web API Sites, Unite

John Musser, September 16th, 2005

Chris Law who last week started the wsfinder wiki, blog and very interesting Map of the Web 2.0 World has suggested that it might make sense to join forces, along with the new Web API Tracker blog, “give the community one definitive place to go” for Web API resources. I completely agree. Given the [...]


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