Microsoft Chief Architect Ray Ozzie kicked-off their Mix 07 developer’s event today by highlighting their “software plus services” platform strategy that aims to blend online and offline worlds. And although he alluded to Live APIs, much of the keynote was focused on Silverlight, their cross-browser plugin competitor to Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Expression, the suite [...]
Given that this week Microsoft is hosting their Mix 07 event in Las Vegas there’s sure to be lots of Microsoft API and mashup related product news. One early bit of news came Friday with the release of V5 of the Virtual Earth API. Microsoft has invested a good deal of effort in this API [...]
Can web mashups keep politicians on their toes? That’s the question raised by a story in yesterday’s Wired entitled “Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington’s Newest Watchdogs”. In particular, the story profiles: MapLight.org, a nonpartisan website offering legislative data; the widely debated and bitterly fought California SB217 which would have banned clear-cutting in ancient forests; [...]
Three new APIs were listed on the site today: one helps you see where $14 trillion in your US taxes go, another gives you search access to 7 million hours of videos, and the third can help you manage and integrate email marketing campaigns.
FedSpending.org: A tool for the public and journalists to find out about [...]
What’s new in mashups listed at ProgrammableWeb? Lately it’s been more about non-maps mashups and a broadening of the APIs being used. You can see happening in the highlights below:
FoxyTunes Planet: Universal personalized music mashup integrating many music resources into one convenient place, then making them available through the FoxyTunes browser extension, which supports more [...]
Besides last week’s big API news of the Google AJAX Feeds API and then the Digg API, other notable APIs have been recently added to our API directory including:
Twittervision: The folks behind the very popular Twittervision mashup that maps twitterers, now has its own API: “We wanted to publish easy ways for people to work [...]
At last week’s Web 2.0 Expo I gave a talk entitled “Open APIs: Big Picture and Best Practices”. It was well received and since so many folks have asked for the slides I’ve published them here as a PDF (1.9MB). InfoWorld reporter Jason Snyder was there and if you read his good summary you [...]
Digg’s Kevin Rose has just announced on their blog the much anticipated Digg API is now available. “We intend to make most of the data on Digg.com available through the API. Currently, you can use the API to request very specific information about news stories and videos submitted to Digg, digging activity, comments, and [...]
Google this week announced the release of the Google AJAX Feed API. What is it? It’s a JavaScript library that lets you mashup RSS and Atom feeds entirely on the client, thus no need for server-side coding. In addition, one of the useful core features is that it can automatically map XML attributes to a [...]
Salesforce.com and Adobe announced this week the Flex Toolkit for Apex which allows Flex-driven Flash applications to be integrated into Salesforce apps as first class citizens. This opens the door to a new class of rich Internet applications now delivered through an on-demand enterprise platform.
Third-party Flex applications are packaged-up and served from the Salesforce [...]
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