Just a quick pointer to a fun writeup by Jenny Shank about her husband Julien’s experiences of creating and publicizing the very good mashup WeatherMole. The second segment of the story is a great account of the cycle of publicity that many mashups hope for.
Jenny correctly guessed that early on I had noticed [...]
The sharp team over at WeBreakStuff have some interesting observations on development using the search engine advertising APIs. Always good to hear some direct insights on real-world challenges developers face as well as a comparison of using 2 like APIs, in this case Google Adwords API and Yahoo/Overture Ads.
Take a look at MapCruncher. A very interesting new map mashup technique from the folks at Microsoft Research. It basically allows you to overlay any digital map image on top of a normal, zoomable Virtual Earth map. As a local Seattleite, nice to see their example of bike trails in this area. More details [...]
Robots are invading Microsoft. Or at least that’s the goal of the contest launched yesterday over at the new Windows Live site robotinvaders.com. $40,000 worth of prizes are up for grabs to the developers who create the best “conversational robots”, or bots, for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Prizes include a $10,000 Alienware MJ-12 [...]
With this weekend’s addition of Flickr Group Browser, FlickrRandom and GeotagIt there are now 68 Flickr mashups listed here.
Besides the ones above, some of the most interesting mashups all-round have been built using Flickr’s API: Colr Pickr, Spell with Flickr, the Fastr game, Bubblr, FlickrSudoku, Virtual Places, matchr puzzle, and retrievr.
These makeup about 10% [...]
The current issue of New Scientist has a good story by Paul Marks on mashup security entitled “Mashup websites are a hacker’s dream come true”. This is an interesting topic that hasn’t received a lot of attention yet, but will once a few headline-grabbing security breaches occur via mashups.
It covers a variety of issues [...]
AOL has just released an RSS-based API for accessing Music now information on members, artists, albums, charts and playlists. It’s a fairly straightforward API. For example, to get the latest releases use the URL /rss/newreleases/ (from the domain aol.musicnow.com), or, to get the top Eric Clapton fans use /rss/artist/topfans/?id=211. All results use RSS.
This week’s addition of the API for Australian online mapping site ZoomIn brings the total number of APIs listed here to an even 200.
Been a busy week already on the mashup front:
Dion Hinchcliffe made some good observations about creating great mashups and why the growth of the mashup ecosystem might be being held back. One of the factors he cites is lack of good tools support. Ning is one of the few contenders thus far, but competition is [...]
Where does Anna Kournikova go shopping in Miami? What are Alex Rodriguez’s favorite NYC hotels? You can now get the answers to these and other pressing questions at CelebFavorites.com, a new celebrity+maps mashup from Microsoft.
Created as a promotional vehicle for Windows Live Local it includes restaurant, hotel, shopping and cultural recommendations from 8 celebs. Others [...]
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