Continuing from Friday’s best-of post, here are some more notable new mashups. These weekly summaries are now getting longer– in two parts — because of the increased volume of mashups. Even between these two posts they only cover about one out of every five entries this past week.
Flickr TagMan: Simple hangman game for Flickr tags. [...]
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ClearForest: The new ClearForest Semantic Web Services API gives [...]
There is more censorship occurring online than you may be aware of. But this is an issue that Amnesty International is hoping to shed more light on. How? Through an API of all things. It’s the latest part of their irrepressible.info campaign launched earlier this year. The API provides access to their database of [...]
This past week the innovative real estate valuation site Zillow released their much anticipated API (see here for Programmable Web entry). A nicely designed API with two sets of functionality: home valuation and property details. On the valuations side, besides getting their trademarked Zestimate home valuations you can also get home valuation charts, market trend [...]
Another busy week of new mashups, with an average of more than five per day, with no signs of letting-up. The API of choice continues to be, surprise-surprise, Google Maps. A few of the other APIs used include Trynt API, the Amazon E-Commerce API and the Vast API.
Flowser: is graphical Amazon Browser. Type [...]
Last year in this post I mentioned some research being done by Bala Iyer and Venkat Venkatraman at Boston University — now at Babson College — where they have been investigating ecosystems and multi-sided markets. A particular focus has become what is happening with the major online platform vendors and the mashup space. Last fall [...]
Years ago most schoolchildren in the US “knew” that if you dig a hole straight down through the earth you end-up in China. But of course that’s not true, no matter where you are in the US. From nearly anywhere in the contiguous 48 states you end-up in the Indian Ocean. How can you [...]
According to this recent CNET report, “Google, BEA in enterprise portal mashup talks”, the two companies are in partnership talks on a new initiative to deliver tools for enterprise developers. The tools would allow creation of composite, mashup-style applications using BEA’s WebLogic Portal along with Google APIs like their popular maps API. The key piece [...]
The 8 new APIs listed here over the past 7 days brings the overall total up to 300 APIs in the directory (and mashups are at an even 1100). The average for the past month has been close to one API per day. More coming soon. Here’s a rundown of some of the latest:
Revver: The [...]
Time for a review of some of the more interesting new mashup arrivals. Over 25 new mashups have been added in the past week alone. Subject matter includes games, sports, news, music, shopping, pets and others. Click here for the full list by date.
Endgame : World War: Claims to be the first massively multiplayer online [...]
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