FYI, the eBay Developers Conference is coming-up June 10-12 down at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. Looks like a very full agenda and includes PayPal and Skype development as well.
Wade Roush over at The MIT Technology Review wrote this enlightening piece on the new Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service. He does a great job of “running the numbers” on the costs of online storage.
[Amazon S3 charges] $0.15 per gigabyte of storage used per month, plus $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred. That’s a [...]
Jackson West over at GigaOM has this interesting update and analysis of Cooqy. Cooqy uses the eBay API to create an alternative interface to auctions, buyers and sellers. Good detailed analysis of a mashup.
Catching-up on API contest news: in the Microsoft / Amazon Web Services contest there were 3 top prize winners. First place winner received a $5,000 Amazon wish list fulfillment. Nicely executed, creative applications. They are now all listed at ProgrammableWeb:
My 10 Wishes: First Prize winner. Lets children pick what they want for Christmas from custom [...]
Alex Barnett points-out that as part of yesterday’s upgrade to Local Live that Microsoft also made some API-side updates to their Virtual Earth Map Control. Useful enhancements include geocoding (address lookups including ambiguous addresses), driving directions with polylines, and GeoRSS support for encoding location data into RSS. In addition, there’s a new SDK.
For good coverage [...]
A number of new APIs have been added here this month. The overall total is now at 208 APIs. Interesting new additions include:
Remember the Milk: Personal task management.
iShareMaps On Demand: UK postcode geocoder.
Performancing: API for retrieving blog metrics.
Civic Footprint: Lookup the political geography of Cook County, Illinois.
Once again, Europe’s interest in mashups was apparent at ProgrammableWeb as there’s been a lot of international visitors here recently, this time courtesy of “Web 2.0: un site pour geeks et pour curieux”.
There haven’t been many French mashups here so far. Perhaps more will appear this year since maps are the major source of mashups [...]
After a bit of a lull the pace of new mashup activity seems to be picking-up again. A lot of very interesting mashups have been added here lately. Here’s a few:
Daylight Map: Excellent visualization of current daylight and nighttime regions around the world. Use the Options bar on the right to tune the settings.
Relate-a-zon Game: [...]
“So everyone in our tech bubble thinks open data is a good idea but hardly anyone is doing it.” This and other very spot-on observations about the issues surrounding open APIs and the data they provide from Paul Hammond’s excellent presentation last week at XTech as very nicely summarized here by Suw Charman. Paul’s [...]
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