Three different kinds of map examples added over the past couple of days (two of the geographic type, one of visualization sort):
Musicmap: Uses a Flash interface for a novel music search mechanism for finding albums similar to the ones you know.
Spam Map: The handy Mailinator service gives you free and disposable email address. But [...]
MashupFeed now supports the ability to view “recent popular” mashups in addition to the “all time popular”. Just click on Recent in upper right of Popular grid. As with del.icio.us/popular it can interesting to see what’s popular lately. In this case it shows the top 10 from the last 30 days. At the moment this [...]
David Berlind’s ZDNet post yesterday does a very nice job of analyzing the “exploding mashup ecosystem” and draws some accurate comparisons between the traditional operating system platforms and the new Internet platform. Check-out the diagrams. This ties nicely to some updates coming here soon.
This week Microsoft hosted their Search Champs v4 event in Redmond where they invited an interesting group of people in to preview search-related products, strategy, and more in order to get some very direct feedback. I was there and although some of what was discussed was under tight NDA some things weren’t. One of [...]
There’s a good podcast interview by Chris Law with MashupCamp co-organizer David Berlind. They cover a lot of ground including the inspiration and history behind MashupCamp, how the nascent eco-system behind APIs and mashups are setting the stage for growth and innovation of online applications, and some thoughts on where this all is headed.
Splogs, otherwise known as spam blogs, have become the latest online blight. And while these fake blogs are littering-up the Web there are some ways to fight back, one of which is through a service called SplogSpot. It’s a spam blog search engine that tracks splogs. For a little more background see Search Engine [...]
The Web Is the Platform, a new story by John K. Waters over at Application Development Trends magazine profiles the major web services developer programs from eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google and Salesforce.com (conspicuously missing is Microsoft). It includes some good analysis of the issues including this look at the ‘worries both ways’:
The relationships between [...]
Just a quick note on a couple of new APIs recently added to the API database:
Pepper: This API creates an open framework on top of Shaun Inman’s well regarded web site metrics and reporting product Mint. (Side note: Shaun is one of the speakers at next month’s sold-out workshop The Future of Web Apps taking [...]
If you want to create your own mashups and applications, here’s a few new how-to programming articles now available on the /howto page :
How To Add a Google Map To Your Web Page…Fast from Exploration Age shows how easy it can be to add a Google Map to any page. Nice straightforward demonstration.
Google Maps AJAX [...]
Note that the dates and location have now been set for David Berlind and Doug Gold’s Mashup Camp: February 20th and 21st at the Computer History Museum. Response to this event has been strong and it’s nearly full, so if you are interested in joining then you’ll want to sign-up soon. Less than 20 of [...]
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