AOL has released their AOL Video Search API. It’s based on their acquisition of startup Truveo back in January (all API methods are prefixed with “truveo”). They have created a pretty comprehensive developer center for their video search tools, which includes both a REST and AJAX API.
In addition, they’ve been smart and with searchvideo.com they [...]
According to reports like “Google office destined to be mashed” it looks like Google is planning to offer APIs to their Docs & Spreadsheets office tools lineup.
“We definitely want to build out APIs, especially for the spreadsheets side, as spreadsheets are more data-oriented, but maybe also for he word processor,” Google product manager Jonathan [...]
ResultR deserves mention as it’s a meta search engine mashup built by two self-described “Web 2.0 Kids” as a high-school project. With it you can create your own search engine by choosing from 30+ sources you might want to include in your results.
And under their “Popular searches” what comes first? Britney Spears of course.
In today’s Wall Street Journal is “Back to the Drawing Board” by Aaron Rutkoff, a “Time Waster” piece that gives a good, detailed report on Retrievr, one of my favorite Flickr mashups. The experimental project uses the Flickr API to let you search for images by drawing them. Use a set of standard paintbox-type tools [...]
“Web site that tracks 911 calls ignites concerns about security” reads the headline in a story by John Cook and Scott Gutierrez in this weekend’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. What is it about? It starts with this mashup, Seattle911, a site created last year by local resident John Eberly that takes real-time feeds of 911 calls provided [...]
Time for a Friday roundup of some of the more interesting mashups from the past week.
Rentometer: Genuinely useful mashup that can help you determine if you are paying too much in rent. Enter an address, apartment size, and rent. It maps nearby units and shows a meter of your price versus min, max and average. [...]
Quick note on a story run yesterday over at law.com by John K. Waters: Mashups to Re-Map the Legal Tech Market?. It seems that the first “legal-tech mashup” might be a Google Maps feature added to the Lawbase software suite from 25-year-old vendor Synaptec Software. The examples of how this might be used given by [...]
That is the message from Quentin Hardy’s interesting article in the current issue of Forbes: The Google Industrial Complex. He makes a good case for it. “Every time you run a Google search, you make its brain more powerful…With every ad click comes a little more revenue.” (Of course Forbes was also on the [...]
There has been a new flurry of APIs added here covering a range of interesting mashup possibilities. The overall total is now 289 APIs: click here for the whole list. As for the latest entries, this sampling gives some of the highlights:
ClearForest Semantic Web Services-1 API: Last week ClearForest launched a new hosted API [...]
Time for the near-weekly roundup of the more interesting mashups added here. Once again maps are lion’s share, although the YouTube API continues to find its way into more mashups, somewhat paralleling its rise in general. Here’s a sampling of some of 1,038 mashups on file:
New York Post Star Map: Page Six meets Google Maps. [...]
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