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Monthly Archives
October 31st, 2005
Shadows
Shadows, the new twist on social bookmarking, offers an API to their service. What’s Shadows? From their site:
Shadows is a social bookmarking service for discovering, sharing and managing information on the web. Shadows supercharges this information with a “Shadow Page” — a community blog for any web page that includes views, ratings, tags, and comments by you, your friends and the Shadows community.
For a quick profile of the service see TechCrunch. The API itself has a fairly simple REST-based design with methods for managing posts and tags. As they note it’s nearly identical to the del.icio.us API. Authentication is HTTP Basic and developers are advised to follow a small set of ‘good citizen’ requirements such as at least one second between queries and identifying yourself via your User-Agent string. See this site’s Shadows Profile for a summary.
Posted by John Musser as APIs at 1:15 AM | 1 Comment »
October 30th, 2005
Real-time Shopping Price Checks
Ever find yourself out shopping and think, “Hmm, I wonder if I should buy this thing now or would it be cheaper if I went home and bought it online?”. Now you don’t have to wait. Use your mobile phone, dial-into Amabuddy, and enter the product’s UPC number. You’ll get back pricing and rating information. This service’s “real time price checks” are built on the Amazon APIs.
It’s not alone in this space and competes with other, bigger mobile shopping services like Froogle, Smarter.com, and Buyscan.com. See this story in the Boston Globe for more details (but beware the annoying pop-unders).
Posted by John Musser as Examples at 6:10 AM | No Comments »
October 28th, 2005
More Yahoo! Maps Mashups
Continuing the review of interesting mashups built on Yahoo! Maps, here’s more via their developer’s site.
- San Diego Trolleys: First and foremost is this brand new mashup from Jeffrey McManus (director of Yahoo!’s Developer Network). Also check-out his handy Yahoo! MapMaker for Excel that gives you an easy template for creating Maps without coding.
- Speaking of which, here’s another one Jeffrey created that can quiz you on your knowledge of Provincial Capitals of Canada. See if you can guess the name before you click on each icon.
- Potrero Hill Crime Map: Another crime mashup, this time of the upscale San Francisco neighborhood.
- San Francisco area traffic cams plotted on a Yahoo Map.
- Southern Maryland Homes for Sale.
- Nationwide What You Need Mashup: Yahoo! hacker Mike Heideman pulls a lot franchises together under one roof of Americana - fast food, wifi, diesel, hotel, and car rentals.
- San Diego area bloggers from Joe Crawford.
- Seattle Italian Food in the Captitol Hill neighborhood. From food206.
Posted by John Musser as Examples, Mapping, Yahoo at 12:10 AM | No Comments »
October 27th, 2005
Frappr
Frappr (Friend Mapper) lets you see the zip code where your friends live or work, letting you find out who works in the office building next door and who lives in the apartment complex across the street.
Posted by John Musser as Examples at 6:30 AM | No Comments »
See 911 Calls in Real Time
Use Seattle911, a Google Maps + seattle.gov mashup by John Eberly, to see what’s going wrong where in Seattle right now. As John says:
I created the site because I was new to the area and found the live 911 data interesting. But I always found myself going back and forth between google maps and seattle.gov to figure out where each of the incidents was located. So, the idea struck me, why not try to hack together a little mashup using my favorite map application, google maps, and share it with the community.
A classic maps mashup.
Posted by John Musser as Examples at 1:44 AM | 2 Comments »
1000 Flowers Bloom Podcasts
Chris Law, creator of the wsfinder wiki and blog, has just started a very interesting new blog, 1000 Flowers Bloom, subtitled ‘Silicon Valley is fertile ground’. He’s starting with a series of podcast interviews, the first with Toni Schneider, Yahoo!’s VP of Developer Relations discussing their API strategy and the latest interview with Microsoft’s Chief Blogging Officer, Robert Scoble. Good interviews with real substance. Nice transcript snippets on the site. Definitely worth listening to.
Posted by John Musser as General at 12:20 AM | No Comments »
New Flavor Mashups
Francis Shanahan has created a couple of interesting mashup variations.
- Zuggest: His take on “Google Suggest” only in this case with Amazon and he calls “Amazon Zuggest”. It dynamically searches Amazon as you type, no need to hit Submit or Enter.
- Popup Search Blog: Flickr + Yahoo + RSS combined in an ‘interactive blog’ where you can web search on blog context without leaving the blog.
Posted by John Musser as Examples at 12:10 AM | No Comments »
October 26th, 2005
More NYC Mashups
The gothamist just noted a few NYC-centric mashups (in turn via Google Maps Mania):
- NYC Marathon Map: shows this year’s course. From Brian Timoney.
- Slice NY Pizza Map: links you to pizzeria reviews at “America’s Favorite Pizza Weblog”. With fun slice-shaped map markers.
- Williamsburger Community Guide: Can help you find where the hippest hangouts are.
Posted by John Musser as BestMashups, Examples, Mapping at 1:05 AM | No Comments »
Jobster
Sometimes you run across mashups when not really expecting them. This just happened to me: I heard a radio interview with Jason Goldberg, the CEO of the intriguing new social-networking-ish job search site Jobster, and see that if you enter a zip code when you search it plots the company locations onto a Google Map.
Posted by John Musser as Examples at 12:31 AM | No Comments »
Seattle Mind Camp
For those of you up here in the Seattle area remember that the Seattle Mind Camp is just around the corner on Nov 5-6th. What is it? Not entirely sure, but the central question posed by the organizers is: “What happens when you put 150 of Seattle’s smartest geeks in an empty office building for 24 hours?”. Great looking attendee list and appears to be filling-up fast. Should be interesting. More details at: http://www.seattlemind.com. See you there.
Posted by John Musser as News at 12:01 AM | 2 Comments »
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