A French court has ordered Greenpeace France to remove this Google Maps mashup showing where Monsanto is genetic engineering maize. In retaliation Greenpeace members responded by going into those fields and carving a giant ‘X’ crop circle into the maize. According to this Greenpeace story:
The EU law says that member states are obliged to maintain [...]
Father of the web Tim Berners-Lee is working on a new project called Tabulator: “the generic data browser which lets you do useful things with your RDF data the moment it’s on the web.” In his post this week Slicing and dicing web data with Tabulator he includes some screen shots including data browsing and [...]
Some interesting thoughts from Tim O’Reilly and Jon Udell on the idea of Open Infrastructure. Tim recently had a conversation with Debra Chrapaty, VP of Operations for Microsoft’s Windows Live, where she noted that “In the future, being a developer on someone’s platform will mean being hosted on their infrastructure.”
Jon has followed-up:
The desktop isn’t [...]
Phil Wainewright over at ZDNet dug a little deeper into some news from Amazon and their just-out-of-beta Simple Queue Service (SQS). What he found was that SQS will be directly supported by Windows Communication Foundation, the web services foundation for Windows Vista (and to be retrofitted to Windows XP).
As he points-out this is interesting news [...]
Following-up on the last post, another set of the better new mashups:
flicktionary: Test your guessing skills and flickr picture choosing skills in this fun twist on pictionary. Beware — some people tag photos quite liberally.
Overplot: Good mashup that plots fun and entertaining quotes from Overheard in New York on a Google Map.
Dubyabot: A new MSN [...]
Besides all of the good mashups from Mashup Camp there has been some interesting, fun and useful mashups added to the directory here. The total is now at 850 mashups. Here’s a rundown of some notables:
The Sheep Market: 10,000 sheep created by online workers. An Amazon Mechanical Turk application. Each worker was paid 2 cents [...]
The first API from a state government has now been added to the database here, GovTracker from Rhode Island’s Secretary of State. Found via this series of articles:
Emerging eGovernment mashups from Phil Windley over at ZDNet.
This story from Jon Udell Open government meets IT notes that public data, made available electronically, can empower the citizenry [...]
A number of smart thinkers recently took another look at Google’s GData API and turned it into an interesting distributed discussion thread:
A Week in the Valley: GData in which O’Reilly’s Nat Torkington discusses his meeting with Chris DiBona and Mark Lukovsky at Google. Mark was the architect of Microsoft’s Hailstorm web services. Key observation: [...]
At Mashup Camp last week each attendee was given one wooden nickel with which to vote for their favorite mashup. Then on both days there was a “Speed Geeking” session during which attendees rotated through the Great Hall getting 5 minute demos from each of the 20+ mashup contestants.
And who won? Once all the [...]
A final roundup of reports on Mashup Camp 2. Check these sites for good, informative posts that both report on what happened at camp but also add a lot to the discussions:
Joe Hunkins, aka Joe Duck
Sandy Kemsley over at ebizQ
The official Mashup Camp blog
One other, fun mashup-related note, you can now secure your own I’d [...]
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