If you’re interested in developing maps mashups using the Yahoo! Maps API but have not yet had the chance to use those APIs, you’re in luck. There’s now a very good book to show you the way, Yahoo! Maps Mashups by Charles Freedman. It’s a comprehensive overview of the three flavors of Yahoo! Maps APIs [...]
Looking for more APIs to combine using your favorite new mashup tool? 19 APIs have been added here in the last 30 days. Some are consumer-focused APIs and others have a distinctly more enterprise flavor.
Stikkit API: The “little yellow notes that think”, offer a pretty rich REST-based API to their service and they support [...]
Right on the heels of last week’s announcement of the first-ever telephony mashup contest from O’Reilly and StrikeIron, this week comes another: the Microsoft and BT Connected Services Sandbox competitions.
Check our Contests Page for this and the active and past contests.
What is this one?
Of all the hundreds of tags you can see in our mashup tag cloud, the second most popular behind “mapping” is “photo”. How popular? As of now there are over 200 photo-related mashups listed at ProgammableWeb — 202 by today’s count.
Also, you may not be aware that there are 14 photo-related APIs. The vast [...]
Not exactly sure when this API quietly launched, but Google has a Notebook Data API for their Google Notebook application. It’s another GData-based API, Google’s XML-based protocol that extends Atom and RSS. There are now 6 GData APIs, all of which are listed here at ProgrammableWeb along with mashups built with them:
Google Base API
Blogger API
Google [...]
Every day somewhere between 2 to 10 new mashups get added here at ProgrammableWeb. Which means there is rarely a shortage of interesting, inventive ones in the mix. This week’s include a plot generator, a creative way to perform authentication, and mashups being used by PBS broadcasting.
PlotShot, the Random Plot Generator: A random plot generator [...]
Want to build data-centric mashups mixing together structured data like RSS feeds? As of yesterday there’s a notable new player on the block: Yahoo! Pipes. From their site:
What Is Pipes? Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service [...]
Yesterday IBM officially announced the public availability of QEDWiki, their innovative tool for building enterprise mashups, or “mashup maker” as they call it. It’s not a tool you download and install, at least not yet: IBM is now offering QEDWiki as a multi-tenant service hosted on their alphaWorks site. Once you register for an account [...]
As you can see on the /contests page here, there have been lots of mashup contests on lots of topics held in the past two years. This week there’s an entirely new form of mashup contest for developers: the O’Reilly Media and StrikeIron Telephony Mashup Contest. What is it and how do you compete? [...]
The past two weeks have seen some unique new mashups added here at ProgrammableWeb. They benefit from a combination of less commonly used APIs, like Feedburner and Alexa Top Sites, along with some creative ideas and good execution. Here’s a rundown of the three
Delexa.org: Web Domains by Topic: Very unique mashup that uses the [...]
©ProgrammableWeb.com 2012. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
