Given the availability of these good APIs from Amazon, eBay and Shopping.com it should be no surprise that “shopping” is a popular mashup theme. As of now there are exactly 100 shopping-related mashups listed here. That’s about 7% of the total. Some of the better ones include:
iPod Radar: Helps you find iPods and accessories as [...]
The database here now includes 270 APIs. Here is a sampling of the latest additions:
SwapThing: From the community driven swapping site. “My Thing for Your Thing” as they say.
Strike Iron Address Distance Service: Calculates the distance between two addresses in both the U.S. and Canada. The distance is calculated as the straight line distance between [...]
At the VON 2006 Conference in Boston this week AOL will demonstrate the use of three new VoIP Internet telephony APIs as part of their AIM Phoneline service. As reported in InformationWeek:
AOL hopes the Open AIM Phoneline initiative would encourage the building of devices and software that add functionality that consumers find attractive. AIM Phoneline [...]
The past few weeks have seen a variety of interesting mashups added here. Some include:
Massachusetts Campaign Contribution Map: A map of contributions to 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaigns. Uses the Google Maps API and data from the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political finance. One of the most extensive use of data with layering on Google [...]
While it may just be a blip in the steady stream of new mashups, there has recently been an uptick in the percentage of non-Google Maps mashups added to the database here. If you look at the Top Mashup Tags Chart you can see that for the last 14 days there has been more entries [...]
A long time wishlist item for ProgrammableWeb was rolled-out over the weekend: big screenshots for the mashups. Many readers had commented that having thumbnail images was nice but it would be much handier to have screenshots large enough to get a good sense of what the mashup site really was. So now when you go [...]
Last week Flickr announced a great set of enhancements to their service: geotagging of photos on a map. Once again they’ve done a nice job in the interface by making it really, really easy. Drag-n-drop them on the map and you’re done. See this screencast for the how-to. As reported in the Flickr blog there [...]
Ryan Campbell over at Particletree wrote this nice introduction on How to Add an API to your Web Service. Good for beginning without too many assumptions about what you do or don’t know about things like REST or SOAP. He outlines many of the decisions you’ll have to make including data format support and error [...]
If you wonder which of the 267 APIs on this site people view most often you might be surprised. It’s not Google Maps, it’s YouTube. Which has been true for quite some time. But the number of mashups using YouTube has been small, until recently when they’ve started to pick-up. Today 2 new YouTube mashups [...]
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