Friday seems like a good time to review some diversionary mashups. Here are three recent ones of note:
Flickr Spy: See what gets uploaded to Flickr right now.
JukeboxTube: A jukebox-like playlist for YouTube videos. No need to listen to your own MP3s when YouTube already has everything online.
Ficlets: Collaborative short-story writing site using Creative Commons-licensed [...]
Ever since the very successful Yahoo! Hack Day last fall there’s been rumors about an API for Yahoo! Mail, the leading web mail service with over a quarter-billion users. And today it’s official: the Yahoo! team announced the Yahoo! Mail API.
You can see our new Yahoo! Mail API profile here.
Earlier today I spoke with [...]
Here are some mashups that highlight a couple mashup trends. First, that Twitter and the Twitter API are all the rage these days. Second, that mashups aggregating web stats and metrics are increasing popular (a recent TechCrunch post brought down the servers of one stats aggregator).
Twittervision: Watch twitters in real time with this [...]
The rate of new web APIs continues apace with our API directory now hitting an even 400 entries. If you View by Category you can see there are just over 50 categories of APIs now listed. Top 3 categories? Mapping, Reference and Internet.
The 400th entry is the Multimap API. The latest version of this [...]
Here’s a trend we’re seeing more of these days: vendor provided interactive API tools. These useful web-based applications let you test drive the methods of a given web API without having to write code. AJAX-style web forms let you choose methods and parameters, press go, and have data immediately returned in another part of the [...]
If you have ever wanted to create photo mashups using Google’s Picasa, now you can. As Sven Mawson of Picasa Web Albums Team announced there is now a GData API for Picasa. Media mashups are hot: as we noted in our piece on 200 Photo Mashups, photography-related mashups are one of the most popular genres.
You [...]
Awhile back over at the Yahoo! Developer Network there was this interesting post on WADL highlighting yet another acronym, but something potentially quite useful here. What’s WADL? It stands for Web Application Description Language, a project being managed over at Java.net, with homepage here. Sun’s Marc Hadley describes it concisely in this article:
WADL is designed [...]
Just a quick rundown of some notable mashup-related links and news:
In Read/Write Web’s Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services, Alex Iskold gives another good analysis of trends in the API and mashup space. In particular he looks at the strategic value of web sites becoming web services, but notes that until more than [...]
Our latest set of interesting new APIs are an office-centric group, with APIs for online project management, online contact management, and for web-based forms. Overall there are now 13 APIs tagged “office” and 3 tagged “pm”. Here’s more on the latest entries:
Goplan: This brand new online project management service from Fred Oliveira and the team [...]
In Microsoft seeks mashups for Live Search in bid to best Google, Computerworld reporter Eric Lai looks at how Microsoft is using their 2007 MVP Global Summit to actively invite a core constituency to write mashup applications on their Live platform APIs. In particular using their Live Search API. (See our collection of 11 Microsoft [...]
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