At last week’s Web 2.0 Summit I had the opportunity to meet with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos to talk about their API and web services strategy. While much of what Jeff had to say had already been covered elsewhere in the press, the thing that comes across in person is just how clearly he sees [...]
Time for the latest roundup of best new entries in the Programmable Web mashup database. It’s been two weeks since the last best-of review and since then 89 mashups have been added, a good 6.4 per day on average for that stretch. Once again mapping APIs, like Google API and Virtual Earth API, have taken [...]
Grazr, the startup focused on making integration of structured data from multiple sources easy, has just launched GrazrScript 1.0. What is it? Grazr itself is an application development system for feeds and GrazrScript is a programming language for feeds. It is an interesting product with the potential to make a variety of complex mashup development [...]
This week’s issue of BusinessWeek has a four-part special report entitled “CEO Guide to Mashups” by Rachael King. The articles cover the enterprise mashup space, consumer mashups, mobile and banking mashups.
Building a Business on a Mashup: “These combos of disparate programs or Web applications are in the hobbyist phase, but entrepreneurs are seeking to turn [...]
In news closer to home, as Tim O’Reilly noted this week, in conjunction with this year’s Web 2.0 Summit O’Reilly Media has just published a 100 page report Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices, with yours truly as the author. It is a pragmatic guide to the why, what, how and who of Web 2.0: [...]
Do you have a online product or service that offers an API, or perhaps you are considering offering an API? If so, the new startup Mashery wants to talk to you. Launched yesterday, their service is designed to provide an out-the-box hosted solution provisioning and managing APIs. This includes a lot of the often under-appreciated [...]
The one-day Widgets Live event was held yesterday in San Francisco. The very worthwhile event was put together by Naill Kennedy and Om Malik as a way to bring together the players, products and developers in the “emerging widget economy”. As they note “Web pages have gotten smaller, included as components within the desktop, personal [...]
One of the features that was quietly rolled-out on Programmable Web earlier this year are Developer and Mashup Wikis. What are they? They let anyone who registers an account here to customize their profile page and lets registered users who share mashups here to customize the mashup description. Of course this is better shown by [...]
As of today there are 310 APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb. That’s nine new ones in the past week and 26 in the last 30 days. Good healthy variety of new APIs including:
PhishTank: PhishTank is a free community site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data. The API lets you check and submit [...]
Just in time for next week’s mid-term US elections, just listed here is this API from The Institute on Money in State Politics. And in this case, it’s the domain name that’s more telling: followthemoney.org. It’s quite an impressive store of data on the who, where, when and how much of campaign contributors across the [...]
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