A well attended Mashup Camp session hosted by Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk and StrikeIron’s Dave Nielsen lead to an active discussion on questions and issues around commercialization and business issues of APIs and mashups. Below are my rough notes from the session.
How are developer ecosystems best managed. Analogy made to old Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) [...]
Mashup Camp 3 kicked-off today here at MIT in Cambridge (a two day event follows on the heels of the Mashup University earlier in the week). One of the first sessions was Mashup Dev Tools, a discussion lead by Dave Nielsen of StrikeIron. It was a very interesting discussion where one of the primary challenges [...]
Continuing from yesterday’s summary of notable new mashups, here are a few more worth seeing:
Adding Tags to MyBlogLog: Here is a fun little hack with MyBlogLog, the addition of del.icio.us tags. You will be able to tag your visitors and immediately see what you and others have had to say. When your readers click a [...]
Now with 1,452 mashups listed, it’s time for our regular review of some of the more notable new and interesting mashups added to ProgrammableWeb. Most of this set have some degree of utility value depending on what your need or interest is: keeping your web site running, keeping up with terror threats, or finding lost [...]
eBay has recently enhanced their API to allow intellectual property owners to report violations programmatically. A set of three APIs let Verified Rights Owners (VeRO) Program particpants to track and report items that infringe on IP copyright
This story at AuctionBytes points-out that eBay has been sued by IP rights holders like Tiffany claiming that eBay [...]
Twice in the past month Google has caused a bit of a stir with their APIs. The first happened when they started charging for their AdWords API and the second when Google said Goodbye SOAP Search API.
Ron Drabkin gives an excellent summary of the AdWords issue over in VentureBeat’s The Google API kerfuffle, and [...]
2007 is off to a good start on the mashup front given the variety of new ProgrammableWeb entries. New ones include video mashups, utility mashups, and tools for keeping an eye on US politicians. Overall there are now 1432 mashups and 356 APIs here.
ZonTube: Nice combination of Amazon music with YouTube videos. Useful [...]
Findory founder Greg Linden has announced interesting new API updates. Findory uses personalization technology to find content tailored to your interests automatically. They spider thousands of news, blog, and multimedia sources to match reading history to new material. What’s new? The API now lets you basically build your own newsreader. From the announcement:
The new version [...]
Just a short note on upcoming conferences: Mashup Camp 3 is happening in two weeks in Cambridge. The attendee list once again looks like a very interesting group and I’m sure there will be plenty of good discussions.
And next month is O’Reilly’s ETel Conference covering what’s new and interesting in web telephony. And it [...]
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