Another little threshold has been crossed here: there are now more than 500 mashups listed at ProgrammableWeb.com. Pace has certainly picked-up over the past couple of months. As shown on Mashup Feed the average new mashups per day is up to 2.81. And that is just those added to the database here. This is up [...]
Earlier this week CNET News.com published Boob tube meets online maps as TV fans get creative. The story looks into the recent proliferation of media and celebrity-based maps mashups including The Geography of Seinfeld, the HBO Sopranos Map, and Jacktracker for 24.
There are a few interviews including one with Mike Pegg of Google Maps Mania [...]
Expect to see a lot more APIs and mashup tools from Yahoo! in the coming months. APIs are due soon for photos, calendaring, shopping and bookmarks. To complement these a new Application Gallery is coming. And, there’s also been some updates to the Yahoo! Product Search API.
For more see CNet and Information Week.
Bigger-than-average API news this week. First is AOL, with the world’s largest IM community, has announced an API for AIM. Developers can now create applications and mashups on top of their messaging infrastructure using an officially sanctioned API, althoughfolks have been doing it via GAIM and others before. The core capabilities include: AIM Presence, AIM [...]
Newsweek’s March 6th issue covers the mashup trend in Time For Your Mash-Up?. The article covers all three main flavors of mashups: music, video, and web. As with the CBS coverage last week, it’s a good, concise, mainstream introduction. Thanks to Dion Hinchcliffe for pointing me to this story.
Nice of reporter N’gai Croal to [...]
The other big API news to start the week comes from MapQuest with their announcement of the MapQuest OpenAPI. They’re an established player in online mapping but a latecomer to the open API party. It looks like they’re going try and play off their strengths which include high-quality maps and good routing. Here’s the first [...]
There’s a good new article over at O’Reilly’s XML.com: Seattle Movie Finder: An AJAX- and REST-Powered Virtual Earth Mashup. It’s by Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo who gives a good nice review of how he built a map-based means for browsing movie theater locations using XML, ASP.NET, and the Virtual Earth API.
Richard MacManus over at ZDNet takes a look at Mashups: who’s really in control?. In particular he opens by emphasizing that:
In the mashup ecosystem, let’s get one thing straight. The data owner is ultimately in control, because a mashup developer is reliant on data owners to keep the supply of data flowing.
Sometimes data services that [...]
New APIs keep coming-in. The API count is now up to 166. Five were added yesterday. Here are a few notable additions over the past couple weeks:
Wayfaring API: This useful service allows you to easily build personalized maps on top of Google Maps. Their brand new REST API provides a way to automate map creation. [...]
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