As Michael Arrington at TechCrunch notes today, the Web 2.0 Workgroup is now up to 20 blogs. You can subscribe to the set by importing the one OPML file into your feed reader. It’s a terrific group to be a part of — here’s a breakdown by category:
Analysis & Trends: Read/WriteWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe,Susan Mernit’s Blog, [...]
Just a quick update on some interesting new examples showing how more folks are now using MSN Virtual Earth (VE) maps. The first two are more broadly interesting (eBay+VE and Chinese Podcasters) and the third is a bit more of a technical demonstration.
Podlook: Plots Chinese podcasters on Virtual Earth maps so that users can [...]
Microsoft architect Nikhil Kothari has created a sophisticated and visually rich mashup with Virtual Places (note that this mashup only works in IE at the moment). As he explains, it’s a mashup that uses Amazon, weather.com, Flickr, Feedmap, GeoBloggers, GeoURL, MSN Search and MapPoint. If you check it out try zooming-in so the overlays of [...]
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s CTO, went public on Monday with their plans for extensions to RSS known as SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions): “Using RSS itself as-is for synchronization wasn’t really an option. That is, RSS is primarily about syndication — unidirectional publishing — while in order to accomplish the ‘mesh’ sharing scenarios, we’d need bi-directional (actually, [...]
CoverPop is a great use of Amazon Web Services toolkit by Jim Bumgardner (aka KrazyDad): hundreds of similar Amazon product images merged into a single page that you can interact with by zooming-into individual items and ultimately buying on Amazon. There are versions for art books, digital cameras, cult movies, science fiction books, every guitar [...]
Quick follow-up to the new /contests page: it now includes the Extend Firefox Contest. Mozilla Corp. is looking for ways to show off the new features in Firefox 1.5 by getting developers to create new, creative extensions that take advantage of those features. 3 Grand Prize winners will each get a Alienware Aurora 7500 Firefox [...]
Digg + slashdot + del.icio.us/popular are a regular browsing cycle for some folks so the diggdot.us mashup combines them into a unified format, eliminates duplicates and adds a few extras. It’s brand new so it will likely go through refining shortly (ex: some duplicates still get through). [via]
The latest in a flurry of press stories on mashups is from CNET this time: Mapping a revolution with ‘mashups’. This fairly long article covers similar ground as prior stories. Mostly focused on maps where it’s the ‘ability for anyone to add information to a map that is increasing the usefulness exponentially and has inspired [...]
By combining weather camera data of the AWS WeatherBug network with Google maps, Brady Davis created a handy way to find US web cams. When you click on a point you see the latest available image captured from the camera. The zip code search centers the map on the specified zip code and loads all [...]
Not only did Peter Rukavina create a nice Google Maps mashup that displays up-to-minute information about the Charlottetown bus system, he tells us how he did it in his wiki. The Making of the Charlottetown Transit Map is quite a good how-to that goes from start to finish including PHP, JavaScript and MySQL source code. [...]
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