In Online growth maps a future, reporter reporter Lara Sinclair at The Australian takes a look at mashups from a down-under perspective.
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have all released mapping tools for markets such as the US, but developers have had limited access to the tools needed to build mashups in Australia.
That will change [...]
Web mashups got their start here in the US but the rest of the world is starting to catch-up. What are the clues? Take press coverage for one. There’s been a couple of good international stories on mashups the past few weeks, including these two:
Zerreiß mich, kopier mich: from Christian Stoecker at Der Spiegel covering [...]
Version 2 of ProgrammableWeb.com is now live. What’s new? Just about all of it, every page is different. Perhaps the biggest change is the addition of 3 “dashboards” which now serve as the site’s main hubs.
Home Page Dashboard: The home page has gone from being just a static site index to a useful page that [...]
There’s a minor tiff brewing over Google’s pending changes to their AdWords API. The API facilitates creation of tools for interfacing with their popular advertising program and is used primarily by advertising and marketing agencies.
The changes, scheduled to be activated on July 1st, were announced on the AdWords blog. WebProNews gives a good overview [...]
Forbes ran an interesting article by Rachel Rosmarin yesterday entitled Making Money From Online Maps. A few interesting tidbits from the story:
The online audience for mapping sites increased by 20% last year.
Mapquest’s monthly audience is 46.4 million visitors, larger than Yahoo! (20 million) and Google (19.1 million) combined.
And that a beneficiary of this competition are [...]
In one more little use of Google Maps by the publishing industry, the Daily News in Bowling Green Kentucky has begun using them for yard sale mashups.
And what does the paper get out of it besides a little PR? Actually, a few extra bucks: they up-sell customers who ordinarily get one day classified ads [...]
This week’s launch of Google Calendar has raised some interesting discussion about how ‘nice it will be’ when they offer an API for it. Charlene Li at Forrester discussed this and Dare Obasanjo followed-up with good points as well.
In looking here, there are currently five APIs tagged with ‘events’, the closest tag to ‘calendaring’ here [...]
The one-upsmanship in the mapping space continues as Yahoo! has just released v3 of their mapping products and their map APIs. On the mapping product side some slick new features including:
Satellite Views: Like this image of Disneyland.
International Cities: Including Hong Kong, Gstaad, and Stuttgart.
Their APIs have been updated to support the new features. More at [...]
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