Givezilla is a company started by Richard Waldvogel in Longmont Colorado that helps nonprofits earn up to 10 percent of product sales made on their Web sites. They do this by helping nonprofits create specialized, no-cost storefronts — little Amazons — that allow visitors to purchase merchandise directly from a nonprofit’s site. Underneath the covers [...]
A new developer contest has launched: the Share Skype Developer Competition. There are three categories:
AP2AP Messaging
eBay Integration
Voice Services
First prize in each category gets you 2000 euros and each runner-up gets 500 euros. Deadline for entries is April 15th. The programmableweb.com/contests page has been updated with this and other contest news.
Good luck.
Good move by Salesforce.com in creating a live system status page at status.salesforce.com. It lets you see the current and historical status of their hosted services: up-down status, performance, and transaction volumes. Smart step in response to their recent availability issues. (Although the page could use a bit more explanation/definition of the data). Hopefully we’ll [...]
From a corporate strategy perspective what’s the relevance of your position within the complex mashup ecosystem? In what ways does API-based organic growth lead to more innovation in the software sector? These are two of the questions that faculty members Bala Iyer, Venkat Venkatraman and their research team at Boston University’s School of Management are [...]
Nearly all API providers place some sort of usage limits on their APIs. While not getting into the reasons why they do this — be it controlling costs, preventing abuse or other — it wasn’t until this week while updating the API database that I realized just how many ways this can be done. Here’s [...]
Continuing on the “portability theme” this week: the folks at StrataVarious, a Boston-based data visualization company, have put together this excellent side-by-side comparison of the leading online mapping APIs: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Concise use of space to give a quick sense of what the key similarities and differences are in code, UI controls, markers, [...]
Last fall, Adrian Holovaty when interviewed by the Associated Press about mashups was asked: what happens when Google maps is no longer free of advertisements? He responded that he’d already created a version of his award-winning chicagocrime.org site that ran on Microsoft’s mapping platform. Just in case.
His response highlights the fact that the web-as-platform is [...]
Over the weekend an interesting API was added to API database: one from 23, a photo sharing service. What’s notable is that their API is modeled after the popular Flickr API. They didn’t invent yet another incompatible API. Within minutes developers can port their applications from Flickr to 23. A very good, but quite rare, [...]
Since starting MashupFeed I spend less time in this blog pointing-out specific mashups and examples since they’re available via subscription. But, here’s an interesting one: United States of Ajax created by Jim Hamilton.
The core of it is based on the Yahoo! Maps API. It seems simple on the surface but there’s a lot going there. [...]
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