Picking-up from the last summary War, Spam and Disease, today’s rundown of new mashups is definitely on the lighter side (three of which have been picked up from here by notable sites this week including LifeHacker, Digg and Google Maps Mania).
Moodgeist: Moodgeist is an experiment to show what is currently happening in the Skype [...]
Following close on the heels of last month’s platform news, this week Salesforce.com is making developer news again, this time with their announcement of AppStore, their vision for monetizing the AppExchange marketplace. What is it? For Salesforce.com customers it aims to be one-stop shopping for trying, buying and deploying on-demand applications. For developers it is [...]
If you’re here on the ProgrammableWeb site or subscribing to this blog there’s a pretty good chance you have at least a passing interest in what new and notable in the mashup space. Now there’s another way for you to see what’s happening: the handy new Mashup of the Day Google gadget (known internally as [...]
Time once again to see what’s most interesting from the latest set of mashups. And, as you can see from the post’s title, a bit more serious in the subject matter this round. First some general ProgrammableWeb metrics: 1337 total, 174 in the past 30 days, and a 30 day average of 5.80/day. Mapping as [...]
As most mashup developers know, only a small fraction of the most useful data on the web is provided through a proper API. This is why parsing data from RSS feeds or screen-scraping HTML is such a widely used mashup technique. But often that’s a lot of work, the kind of work that’s better done [...]
Speaking of last week’s post on contests, there are 4 mashup competitions ending this month, including one today. Besides AOL’s contest, others ending in the next few weeks include the GoodStorm API Developer Challenge, the GeoIQ Mashup Contest and the ClearForest Semantic Web Services Contest from ProgrammableWeb sponsor ClearForest.
In just over 15 months there have [...]
In an interesting short piece at Federal Computing Week, reporter Bob Brewin looks at Amazon.mil? and how the Department of Defense might utilize web service APIs like those from Amazon, Google and others.
In a recent test, the Defense Information Systems Agency [DISA] compared the cost of developing a simple application called the Tech Early Bird [...]
Late last week Google quietly announced their Google Spreadsheets API, the latest in their GData family of APIs. What does it allow you to do? From their announcement: “The Google Spreadsheets data API allows client applications to view and update Spreadsheets content in the form of a Google data API (“GData”) feeds. Your client application [...]
Yesterday AOL and TopCoder announced the Web AIM Mashup Competition, with more here in the press release. They are offering prizes up to $5,000 to a developer who creates the best mashups built on their new OpenAIM initiative. The contest window is short and entries are due by December 6th. See also our /contests [...]
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