Radio Station Mashup

John Musser, November 30th, 2007

Lots of radio stations would be glad to have devoted fans able to create web mashups like the KEXPlorer. This mashup is intended to “enhance the listening experience” of the popular community supported KEXP station in Seattle: follow along as you stream KEXP, tag the songs you like, post comments, and send SMS to get [...]


New APIs: Lifestreaming and Online Games

John Musser, November 29th, 2007

We added a few new web services to our API listings yesterday, bringing the total to 559. Two of this latest batch include one API for “lifestreaming” as well as an online gaming API which gives you access to a turn-based multiplayer strategy game. Here’s a quick overview:

Aevum Obscurum API: The AO API allows connecting [...]


Google’s New API Moves Outlook to GMail

John Musser, November 28th, 2007

If you’re at an enterprise that’s been thinking about transitioning your email infrastructure to a hosted software-as-service model then Goolge’s new Apps Email Migration API may be of interest. As you can see in our API profile the Atom-based API is designed to let corporate developers and email administrators do things like selectively move email [...]


36 Last.fm Mashups

John Musser, November 27th, 2007

If you want to see an interesting set of music-themed mashups, checkout our list of 36 Last.fm mashups all of which in some way utilize the Last.fm API. Many provide unique ways to search for artist data, photos and videos and connect these to Last.fm playlists. Here are three of the most popular entries (note [...]


10 Online Storage APIs

John Musser, November 26th, 2007
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If you offer an online storage service, it’s becoming increasingly important to offer an API to it. With this month’s addition of the DigitalBucket API, we now have 10 storage APIs in our listings. Some of these services focus on the API first (or only in the case of Amazon S3), others offer free and [...]


Thanksgiving Day Trivia Map

John Musser, November 22nd, 2007

Since it’s the Thanksgiving Day holiday here in the US it seems appropriate to point-out that today’s Mashup of the Day, the Thanksgiving Day Trivia Map includes: US cities and towns named Turkey (the most common meat served today), or that claim to be the turkey capital of the US or world, or are named [...]


Amazon Picks Finalists for $100K Prize

John Musser, November 21st, 2007

As we reported earlier, the Amazon Web Services team is offering over $100,000 worth of prizes in their AWS Startup-Challenge and yesterday they announced the 7 finalists. Each of the entries are leveraging the Amazon APIs like EC2, S3 and Mechanical Turk to build their businesses. Amazon is going to fly these finalists to an [...]


Access Denied: Mapping Web 2.0 Censorship

John Musser, November 20th, 2007

See how censorship targets online communities around the world with the Access Denied Map (see our full mashup profile here). As mashup creator Sami Ben Gharbia


eBay Serves 5 Billion API Calls Each Month

John Musser, November 19th, 2007

The first of the Web 2.0 APIs came from eBay back in November 2000 and they’ve come a long way in the 7 years since then. Our eBay API Profile is one of the most frequently visited on ProgrammableWeb. As you can see in this recent post from the eBay Developer’s Blog comes some interesting [...]


How to Avoid Extinction

John Musser, November 16th, 2007

How much impact does your daily activity have on the environment? You might be able to answer this question using new carbon footprint calculation mashups built with our recent API listing: AMEE, the Avoid Mass Extinctions Engine. AMEE launched their platform in June of this year and their mission is to “Enable any climate campaign [...]


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