In an interesting, perhaps inevitable, twist on maps mashups it looks like some companies have started using mass uploads to Google Maps to generate business. Using new variations on classic spammer techniques they get their companies to show up more often in Google’s results. How? In cases cited on SearchEnginewatch and by Mike Blumenthal they’re [...]
It’s not always easy being in the “mashup tools” marketplace these days. While the rapid growth of hundreds of open APIs presents new opportunities for mashup tool vendors, it’s not simple to find the right markets, users and scenarios to guarantee success.
First of all there’s already lots of competition. Just see in Dion Hinchcliffe’s [...]
Besides the APIs we highlighted in last week’s Games, Shopping and Bible post, here’s another mix of new APIs added in the past few days:
SlideShare: The very popular online service for sharing presentations on the web now offers a REST-base API. It allows for: Uploading presentations, retrieving embedcodes for slideshows, retrieving slideshows for users, retrieving [...]
If you’re interested in the chance to win cash and prizes for creating mashups then check out our Mashup Contests Page. At the moment there are 5 mashup contests under way with prizes up to $10,000. Keep in mind that 2 of these end next week:
Contest
Prizes
Deadline
Voxbone API Development Contest
$10,000 first place prize
July 31st, 2007
Clicky API [...]
Pownce, the widely discussed new service from Digg founder Kevin Rose for sharing messages, links, files and events, will soon be getting an API. As announced in their blog yesteday the API is due in September. As they note:
The lack of an API has been a major criticism leveled against Pownce from day one. The [...]
Our ProgrammableWeb mashups directory now lists 2128 applications which are using 243 different web services. Here’s a sampling of some interesting recent additions, only one of which is using maps:
Visualizing Earmarks: Graphically illustrates how Congress awarded earmarks in 2005 by agency, state and organization, as well as a searchable database of the earmarks and their [...]
Here’s an update on some of the newest of the 475 APIs in our directory. These three cover quite a range of subject matter: games, shopping and religion. Here’s the details:
EVE Online API: One of the largest game online game worlds, EVE Online, offers a REST API for accessing game data. If you are not [...]
Another eventful Mashup Camp wrapped-up on Thursday with announcement of the winners of both the traditional Speed Geeking competition as well as the new Best Business Mashup contest. The first place prize for the now classic Speed Geeking contest went to the creators of video aggregation service chime.tv, Taylor McKnight and Chirag Mehta. For McKnight [...]
There are some very interesting entries in the best mashup competition at Mashup Camp 4 this week. Here is a sample:
Twitterlicious: Twitter mashed-up with Del.icio.us. When you are viewing your or a friends timeline, you have the option to clip the tweet. This saves the tweet URL tweet in your del.icio.us account as a private [...]
Giving the kick-off presentation at Monday’s Mashup University portion of this week’s Mashup Camp 4 was an Introduction to Mashups from expert “masher-upper” John Herren. From the look of John’s slides posted on SlideShare it was very good general introduction to the topic. Herren used the notion of a Mashup Pyramid, shown below, as a [...]
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