Developers using Amazon’s EC2 API might find this interesting: Amazon has created an open source project on SourceForge for ElasticFox, their Firefox extension that lets you create and manage EC2 instances from a GUI in the browser. The utility lets you launch AMIs (Amazon Machine Instances) and then find, control, replicate and shutdown running instances. [...]
If you’re interested in creating secure maps mashups the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has a new feature for you: SSL support. As .NET developer David Barkol points out: by providing SSL support the Virtual Earth API now offers something not yet available in Google Maps. This means developers can include a version of the VE [...]
The statistics are impressive – nearly 12,000 applications produced on the Facebook Platform since its launch on May 24th of this year and according to Adonomics those applications were used over 36 million times in the last 24 hours.
It’s success prompted Google to push out its OpenSocial platform, expected to be widely deployed in 2008, [...]
There has been an uptick in new APIs added to our directory and we now have 579 API’s listed. We continue to see lots of variety in the API styles (REST, SOAP, JavaScript) as well as the markets (email, e-commerce, reference, others). Here’s a quick roundup of three of the latest:
MailChimp API: Last month we [...]
Just in time for the holiday break here are two seasonal mashups, both with a good sense of fun. One is even a bit utilitarian if you ever happen to need to know how far it is from a given point on the earth to the North Pole. (You can also find 7 other holiday-themed [...]
Even wonder if the sites you log into on a regular basis might inadvertently let any of that information leak? If you want to see a very real, interactive example of just how prevalent this might be, just check-out JavaScript guru Kent Brewster’s series on “How to Tell if a User is Logged In to [...]
If you are interested in hosting OpenSocial compatible widgets in your web site you’ll probably want to keep an eye on the open source project Shindig. What is it? As Google product manager Dan Peterson describes in Let’s get this shindig started: “Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation’s incubator (as per [...]
The Flickr API continues to be one of the most popular Web 2.0 APIs and with a flurry of new photo mashups here lately, we now have 292 Flickr mashups listed. Overall they run a very wide range of creative applications, here are three of the most recent entries:
flickrbackup: A Java-based Flickr backup utility that [...]
Amazon has once again lead the industry by launching their latest infrastructure API, SimpleDB, a programmable database in the cloud (you can see more at our new SimpleDB API profile). It’s a forward thinking approach for a pay-as-you-go, scalable database that is very much in line with Amazon’s other popular infrastructure services like the S3 [...]
Just a little Friday note to highlight one of the most fun map mashups to date, the The Onion’s Our Dumb World map (our profile here). As they describe “Click on the Onion pins scattered around the globe to reveal mind-expanding factoids about the lesser, conquerable nations of the Earth. Come back each week to [...]
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