AOL, who now have 10 open APIs listed here, are live webcasting later today the 2007 TopCoder Open from the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas. This has been called the major league of programming competitions with $260,000 in prizes and about 4,600 developers orginally entered worldwide.
See it live at 4pm ET today at dev.aol.com [...]
One of the primary issues facing map mashup developers isn’t a technical one but a business one: how to make money from their mashups. Often you’ll see Google AdSense ads ringing a mashup as basic strategy for generating a bit of revenue. This problem is one that IDELIX Software, a veteran Canadian developer of visualization [...]
With the very recent addition of APIs from video services Veoh and LiveVideo there are now 13 video-related APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb. Some you’re more likely to be familiar with like the YouTube API, the Revver API, the Yahoo Video Search API and the AOL Video API. Others include the Dave.TV, the Blinkx API and [...]
Digg has announced the winners of the Digg API Visualization Contest. You can read about them here on Digg. Ten finalists were selected by the contest team and then Digg community members used their diggs to vote for the winners. The winner? Digg City, shows the 10 newest popular stories. The more popular the story [...]
Here are a few of the more interesting new APIs added to our API listings in the past week. They are top quality entrants in popular categories — our listings include 54 mapping-related APIs, 15 widget-related APIs, and 11 APIs tagged “government”.
ClearSpring API: The folks at widget creation, deployment and tracking service ClearSpring have been [...]
eBay topped five other leading Web 2.0 developer programs including Yahoo, Amazon, Google, PayPal, and Microsoft in a study published this month by Evans Data Corporation. The 34 page report entitled “Developer’s Choice: Web 2.0 Developer Programs” is based on a recent survey of 400 developers and is available at the EDC site, free registration [...]
Following-up on the most recent best-of roundups including 3D UFOs and Twitter, YouTube and Last.fm mashups, here are some more interesting mashups from the newest mashups listed:
What if I walk the world in a straight line?: Imagine where you pass if you take a long walk in a straight line around the world, which places [...]
Keeping up with what’s new on the mashup front, here is a roundup of some of the more interesting new mashups:
Skype to-and-from Twitter: A mashup to allow you to post Twitters from Skype and receive your friends Twitter timeline into Skype.
Moonplex 3D: This Flash-based app lets you upload a photo of your house to see [...]
A few new entries of the 453 listed here cover video, photos-plus-maps, and purchasing phone services. Note that video APIs continue to proliferate, there are now 12 APIs tagged video in our listings. Here are more details on the new APIs:
Panoramio API: This Spanish service lets users geolocate, store and organize their photographs and to [...]
While most of the news in the enterprise SaaS space is often generated by Salesforce.com, another smaller but very interesting player is Etelos who offer a general-purpose multi-tenant application platform designed for the SMB market. Their strategy is to help those companies and the thousands of ISVs that serve them to have a fully hosted, [...]
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