A quick update from Mashup Camp 2:
For some thoughtful, strategic thinking on the topic of mashups see Mashup Camp: Day 1 from RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady
Following along a couple of those themes, there’s this post from Oren Michels, CEO of promising mashup-focused startup Mashery
ZDNet’s Dan Farber has a brief update on Mashup Camp brainstorms
Mashup Camp [...]
People have started posting photos from Mashup Camp 2 at Flickr. They tend to be classified under one of two tags: mashupcamp and mashupcamp2.
Mashup Camp Day 1 is underway. I recommend using this session grid in the wiki as a way to see what people are talking about. As the day goes on most of the session titles will link to session notes (note that as of now some don’t). Here’s a few:
Ajax Design Patterns
Wiki as Mashup Platform
Microformats [...]
Amazon’s S3 storage service seems to be taking-off quite nicely. As noted in today’s announcement they have over 800 million data objects stored on the service yet they only launced just over 4 months ago. People are finding a variety of interesting uses for the cost-effective services from backup to digital asset management to software [...]
The first day of Mashup Camp’s Mashup University took place today and if you want a good run-down on what took place check-out Joe Hunkins’ excellent summaries.
Web mashups are a very new phenomenon but they already have their signature industry event: Mashup Camp. Today marks the kickoff of Mashupcamp 2 and looks like it will be terrific. The last one was a big success for a number of reasons: the enthusiastic and interesting crowd, the virtues of the unconference format, and [...]
Phil Wainewright over at ZDNet makes some very good arguments about the challenges of enterprise mashups in his post Google Maps, the fool’s gold of mashups. He begins by noting that nearly two-thirds of the 800+ mashups here are maps mashups and their ubiquity comes from more than their ease of implementation and visual appeal, [...]
There has been a flurry of new mapping-related APIs added to the API database here. These include MetaCarta, Mapstraction and Map24. This brings the total number of APIs with some mapping-related characteristic to 23. You can see them all here.
This includes well known APIs like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live maps; geocoders like geocoder.ca [...]
It was bound to happen — an abstraction library to hide the differences between mapping APIs: Mapstraction. It’s a collaborative effort initially funded by the UK property finder Nestoria. As they describe:
Mapstraction is a library which provides a common API for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft’s javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another [...]
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