ProgrammableWeb’s 2005 year-end ’stats’: 137 APIs & 275 mashups.
This time next year? We’ll see, but somehow suspect by then this year’s numbers will look tiny by comparison…
Happy New Year to all!
Seems like folks are starting to get a little more creatively provocative with mashups as we near year end:
Slut-o-meter: Evaluates the promiscuity of the subject you enter by comparing the number of Google search results with and without “safe-search” enabled. This gives the “Promiscuity Percentage”, calculated as: Pr(slut) = 100% ((unsafe-safe)/unsafe). Try your favorite celebrity [...]
Niall Kennedy reverse engineered Google’s Reader and uncovered an API in there. Which, as it turns-out, the Google team says will be available early next year.
Just catching-up on some recently added mashups. This one entitled Read All About It combines Amazon’s book catalog and MSN Virtual Earth (now Windows Live Local) allowing you to browse for books via online maps. This image shows the map of Hawaii in the main window and books such as “Fodor’s Hawaii” and James [...]
In honor of the holidays is this Christmas-themed mashup: SantaStars.com. Use it to find elaborate Christmas lights displays. Readers can add comments and vote for favorites. The current #1 house is in Richmond, British Columbia and has 87,625 lights. [via]
One of the new mashups added earlier this week is the World Volcano Browser which displays volcanoes of the world on a Google Map. The data comes from the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Vulcanism Project. Certainly are plenty around here in Seattle…
Copyscape is an interesting business built on top of the Google Search API. Their services include:
The free Copyscape service for finding copies of your content on the Web by typing in the address of your original web page.
The advanced Copysentry service provides comprehensive defense for an entire website. Copysentry automatically scans the web daily and [...]
In a good overview post entitled Web services for dummies, ZDNet’s Richard MacManus looks at the debate over web services protocols and the complexity vs. simplicity continuum.
Continuing their onslaught of new APIs, Yahoo! yesterday announced a set of new Travel APIs that allow you programmatic access to the Yahoo! Trip Planner.
As they note: “The Yahoo! Travel Trip Plan APIs have been designed to operate just like the Yahoo! Search APIs, so if you’ve already written code for Yahoo! Search you can [...]
You can now take your choice of how to virtually tour New York City (and although not as good as the real thing, the virtual city doesn’t go on strike):
Virtual NYC: Navigate through the streets of New York using thousands of pictures and reading the city’s history. 16 tours currently available.
NYC POV: Takes the Quicktime [...]
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