Yahoo! announced yesterday the availability of their new Answers API. The API gives you the ability to get answers by questions, category and by user. Like many of the Yahoo! APIs data can be retrieved in XML and JSON but also serialized PHP which is a handy convenience for PHP developers.
Nice to see that [...]
The fall conference season is just around the corner and there’s a variety of events of interest to mashup and Web 2.0 developers:
Ryan Carson has put together The Future of Web Apps, Sep 13-14, 2006, in San Francisco. Good looking event with speakers include Kevin Rose (Digg), Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), Cal Henderson (Flickr), Dick Hardt [...]
According to the just released Gartner’s 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, mashups are nearing the hype cycle peak. They get a rating of “moderate” and Gartner’s analysis is that:
Mashup is rated as moderate on the Hype Cycle (definition: provides incremental improvements to established processes that will result in increased revenue or cost savings for an [...]
Duane Merrill over at IBM’s Developerworks just posted this good introductory overview Mashups: The new breed of Web app. He covers the various genres (as classified by tag here), the technologies including REST/SOAP, Ajax, RSS, RDF and screen scraping. And perhaps the most interesting part, the “Technical Challenges” section that looks at issues in data [...]
Continuing from yesterday’s note on 250 APIs here, this week also saw the mashup listings hit 900 entries. The overall distribution by type hasn’t changed all that much of late with mapping, photos, search, and shopping making-up the bulk of the listings. A couple of the more interesting new ones include:
Clockr: Clockr uses [...]
The new APIs keep rolling-out and the count here is now at 250 APIs. Overall, they’re currently being added at about a rate of one every other day. Besides the APIs from the GAMYe players (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo!, eBay), some of the more unusual ones include the Where’s Tim API to see where the [...]
In another of his thoughtful posts, Dion Hinchcliffe looks at the quest for enterprise mashup tools which would allow easy, or easier, mashup-style integration in an IT context. And finds that there aren’t that many. Yet. Dion notes that widgets are one simple option, with more and more available from all the major players (although [...]
Just a quick note on Goggles, the first attempt at implementing a (deceptively) simple but creative flight simulator on a Google Map. A fun little diversion. Pick from five cities and go. Arrow controls let you change altitude and turn your plane. Even supports flame-out crashes. Note that as the about page says, it was [...]
Today, in a follow-up to their spring launch of Pushpin LE — a supported, licensed mapping tool with Google Maps API compatibility — mapping vendor Placebase is taking-on Google Maps again, this time with a Dynamic Layers API. It’s the next round in the ongoing one upsmanship of the online mapping feature wars, Placebase now [...]
In a short piece entitled Non-Visual Mashups Rule, Dave Linthicum draws the distinction between visual and non-visual mashups. Visual ones are of course like all of the nearly 900 mashups here, with maps and photos defining the model. Non-visual mashups are more akin to enterprise integration software, invisibly making connections in the background:
Non-visual mashups are [...]
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