Google has just released a set of components called libjingle that give third-party developers powerful new tools for integrating with Google Talk. This is the company’s next step in creating a formidable communications platform. The libraries implement two of Jabber’s proposed XMPP extensions: Jingle, which can be used to initiate and negotiate a wide range [...]
Yesterday Yahoo! unveiled their new JavaScript Developer Center and further support for JSON web services serialization (where JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, a nice alternative to using XML in JavaScript code, and is an open data format that del.icio.us has supported for awhile).
So what? Well, using JSON is another smart move by Yahoo! [...]
A group of students from Allegheny College recently launched a new site, Gnosh, an experimental meta-search tool somewhat similar to gada.be. It allows you to search for a term and retrieve results from a large range of search engines and social services. [via]
As reported by Gary Price at Search Engine Watch, Google has just release their Google Homepage API. More on the Google Blog. And it was just this week that Yahoo! renamed Konfabulator to Yahoo Widgets. And there’s a growing number of Microsoft Gadgets as well.
Google posted an initial set of homepage modules available in their [...]
John Battelle delivered the web platform story of the day yesterday by reporting Amazon will make Alexa’s 5 billion web documents and 100 terabytes of data available via the Amazon Web Services Platform. See his story for some interesting possibilities and there’s also a good summary at Wired.
There is a (reasonable) fee for using [...]
Joshua Porter just posted a very good Introduction to Web 2.0 and useful set of reference links at Squidoo
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Ryan Carson, creator of DropSend has setup a very good one day conference for February 8th in London on The Future of Web Apps. Impressive speaker lineup includes principals from Flickr, del.icio.us, FeedBurner, Mint, 37 Signals, and [...]
The Metro System of Naples, Italy shows you the main lines and stops of that transit system and yesterday became the first Italian example added to the mashup database.
Here’s a sampling of some of the new APIs added to this site’s database in the past month:
WSRelater: What is it? An interesting new service, currently in alpha, from Chris Law and Paul Martino’s AggregateKnowledge service. As they describe:
WSRelater is a web service for suggesting items of interest to a user based on the behavior [...]
Whether or not you believe in ghosts you might want to check out HauntedMap.com. It uses MSN Virtual Earth maps and draws data from a few different sources such as HauntedHouses.com to show you the location of haunted houses across the US. Probably one or two in your area. Check out the great ghost map [...]
The big mapping story yesterday was the release of Microsoft’s Windows Live Local with its amazing bird’s eye imagery. Somewhat hidden in the flurry of press coverage and blogging was the release of an upgrade to the Virtual Earth API (that brand lives on but now appears as a “Powered by Virtual Earth” subtitle). As [...]
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