Traditional media’s use of APIs for promotional purposes is picking-up lately. Mike Pegg has been highlighting a few new Google Maps examples over at Google Maps Mania. The two most notable ones, now added to the mashup listings here are the Sopranos Google Maps mashup from HBO and the NBC’s Apprentice Cast Map from [...]
Veteran technology reporter Larry Magid just published this good introductory story on mashups and Mashup Camp over CBS News. Nice to see some more mainstream media coverage. And, as a bonus, you can also listen to Larry’s podcast interviews with myself, Taylor McKnight (creator of Podbop which won the best mashup award at last week’s [...]
Anyone writing mashups and web services-based applications in PHP should check-out the new PHP Developer Center at Yahoo!. It has some very useful how-to articles, code samples and other resources on using REST and SOAP, parsing XML, caching, geocoding, and more. The examples are Yahoo! based but the techniques and code can clearly be applied [...]
Scott McMullan, JotSpot’s director of developer relations, captured this good set of photos of the competitors in this week’s Mashup Camp mashup developer contest.
Podbop! This is the winning new mashup as voted by attendees at this week’s MashupCamp. Podbop’s creator Taylor McKnight was awarded a powerful Sun Niagra/TI Ultrasparc system by Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz.
Part of what makes this mashup a winner is that it’s genuinely useful: enter your city or other location and [...]
If you’re interested in goings-on at Mashup Camp Day 2, here are some good links:
Dan Farber at ZDNet has descriptions and screenshots of some of the mashups in competition today.
Photos tagged with ‘mashupcamp’ at Flickr.
And more new podcasts of the event from Podtech.net.
There’s a class of interesting new applications known as “memetrackers”. These apps use a variety of algorithms to identify, group and track memes. In this case as threads of conversation online. Examples include Gabe Rivera’s Memeorandum, Kevin Burton’s TailRank (for more on memetrackers see TechCrunch and Mashable).
Adam Green noticed that there’s an ongoing discussion among [...]
It was a very busy day at Mashup Camp. Big crowd, lots of energy, and lots of good discussions. Here’s some of the session notes from the mashupcamp wiki:
The day got of to a good start with a well-attended discussion on the issues and questions surrounding Business Models in Mashups.
Later was Indentity Management and [...]
Peter Rip takes a hard look at Some Problems With Mashups. He cites some very valid concerns: Can you add value? Can you build real applications? Consumer processes are simple (thus where’s value?), and consumer business models are tough on mashups. The last one means that APIs often imply: be successful using this, just not [...]
Adam Green has nice concise writeup on how he created his first Google Map by hand. Interesting part is how it follows what seasoned programmers do when tackling something they haven’t done before: start with something that works and then keep it working while modifying (aka hacking) and learning. In this case the end product [...]
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