2006 was a busy year in the world of web APIs and mashups. Here’s a quick summary of the ProgrammableWeb metrics at the end of the year.
1,404 Mashups listed here. At the beginning of the year where there were 245 listed. Here’s the current summary pie chart distribution by top tags:
As you can see, the [...]
One of the most popular tags for classifying mashups on this site is “travel”. How popular? So far, 102 mashups at ProgrammableWeb have this tag. Most are mapping-related, often used to highlight locations for a specific destination like French Champagne houses, UK Bed and Breakfasts, NYC Broadway Shows or Hollywood celebrity hotels (and gossip):
Other travel [...]
There’s been quite a buzz in the blogosphere over the past two days since Brady Forrest over at the O’Reilly Radar blog pointed out that Google deprecated their SOAP search API (see also Philipp Lenssen). If you go to the SOAP Search API homepage you’ll see the message “As of December 5, 2006, we are [...]
As noted yesterday, winning mashups have been announced for contests from both Rhapsody and our sponsor ClearForest. As with Rhapsody, the ClearForest team had good success in getting a very creative range of entries. Because the ClearForest API provides semantic textual analysis many of the mashups do interesting things by processing current news data.
Optevi News [...]
As noted earlier this month a number of this fall’s mashup contests have reached their deadlines for entry submission. For two of them, the Rhapsody Web Services Contest and ProgrammableWeb sponsor ClearForest’s Semantic Web Services (SWS) Mashup competition 2006, the mashup entries have now been reviewed and the winners announced. Here’s Rhapsody’s announcement and here’s [...]
Today the the 350th API was added at ProgrammableWeb. Lots of variety. Last week’s API review Pings, Wikis, and Twitters highlighted some newer companies with APIs, but here is another set, this time with some pretty familiar names:
WebEx: The main player in on-demand collaboration software now offers three sets of APIs into their services with [...]
Quick pointer to a couple of interesting, thoughtful posts on mashups this week:
The growth of mashups continued throughout 2006: Dion Hinchcliffe does a good thorough review of the state of mashups today: lots of examples but lots of unanswered questions and models yet to be defined or proven (the “value proposition”), potential support issues, monetization [...]
While the pace of new APIs over the past three weeks wasn’t up the nearly one per day rate the month before, there have been 26 added over the past 30 days. Included are APIs from big established providers and small startups. Below are a few of note with more coverage coming in the next [...]
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