In a post entitled Why “Mash Ups” Matter Patricia Seybold applies her customer-centric perspective to the topic of mashups. She begins by giving some background on the topic and then getting into the core of her points which are that mashups enable customers to creatively consume your brand experience and that if you build them [...]
Here’s a couple of new Virtual Earth articles. First is this good one from Jonathan Hawkins on how he built a mashup of US national parks using Virtual Earth and Altas, the Microsoft’s Ajax framework. Detailed step-by-step instructions with lots of code and screenshots.
The second is this article from MP2K Magazine interviewing the folks from [...]
37signals, creators of the innovative and instantly successful BaseCamp, this week unveiled an API for it. The fairly thorough API is REST-based and is quite similar to their existing Backpack API.
See their blog and forum for more details.
The father of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee in this recent interview with the UK’s BCS gives his take on mashups:
Mash-ups are called Web 2.0, but they are data integrations – taking a piece of display technology like a map application and doing a handcrafted data integration. I’ve yet to see a mash-up that uses [...]
Windows Live Developer Center from Microsoft is now online. A bit sparse at the moment, but, gotta start somewhere. For now it mostly aggregates links to a few of the Live branded APIs and tools: Messenger Activity SDK, Gadgets, Live Custom Domains and ideas.live.com. Interesting Business Opportunities Page. Over the years Microsoft has a good [...]
What’s a scrAPI? A scrAPI, which at this point is more of an idea than a thing, was recently described by Thor Muller in his blog as a type of community-built API that provides a programming layer above web sites that don’t otherwise have an API. This intermediate layer, which exists independently of the destination [...]
Following-up on discussions last week about mashup business models, I was curious to look at the other side and see if API providers had disclosed any details about revenue or volume numbers directly attributable to their API-based services. While the direct dollar figures are not always available, here are a few related numbers:
Salesforce.com: Reported on [...]
In a well-written summary, Richard MacManus outlines a set of possible mashup business models including: advertising, lead generation and affiliate programs, transactional mashups, as well as noting other potential models of subscriptions, pay-per-transaction, premium services, charging business not individuals. He notes that for most part these remain to be proven in any significant way. [...]
Dan Cohen over at George Mason University looked that APIs listed here and asked a good question: Where Are the Noncommercial APIs?. He makes a number of valid points here:
One of my pet peeves as someone trying to develop software tools for scholars, teachers, and students is the lack of application programming interfaces (APIs) for [...]
The big API news today is that the web as platform now has a new world-class storage system designed specifically for developers: Amazon S3, their Simple Storage Service. Amazon has basically taken the online storage infrastructure behind their core online services and provided a public, fee-based interface to it. There’s now a viable “storage cloud” [...]
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