As promised, the team at Netvibes, the very popular customizable homepage, has released the developer preview of their Universal Widget API (UWA). Widgets developed using this API work not only on Netvibes but many other widget platforms and blog systems: Google IG, Apple Dashboard, and so on. It also includes the ability to widgetize any [...]
Yesterday we looked at interesting new mashups not using maps and so today we’ll look at a few new ones that do use maps, but are not repeats of the other 969 maps mashups in our listings:
EPA Superfund Site Locator: How close do you live to a Superfund toxic waste site? Integrates EPA Superfund XML [...]
Here’s a mix of new, interesting mashups that use a wide variety of the 395 APIs listed here, none of which are maps.
The Ad Generator: A generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans, then paired with Flickr images, generating fake advertisements [...]
With the latest set of APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb you could: find a name for your new web domain, report on its health, setup email campaigns to promote it, and integrate it with PSTN voice services. Here’s a quick rundown of what they are:
Domain Tools API: This XML API provides domain resellers and registrars access [...]
Want a “mashup” job? While you won’t yet find a lot of job descriptions with the word mashup in them, you can see in this trend graph from meta job search engine indeed that the number of jobs containing “mashups” is going up:
The line is at zero until the spring of 2006, then starts to [...]
One of the more interesting APIs added here recently comes from BT, British Telecom. It’s not so much a single API but a set of early beta APIs code-named Web21C, part of their larger £10 billion 21st century network initiative called 21CN, an IP-based, multi-service network. Functionality provided in this initial release includes SMS, voice [...]
One of the more promising tools for mashups just got a boost: Grazr founder Adam Green announced in their blog they just closed a $1.5 million Series A round of financing and that industry legend Dan Bricklin, creator of Visicalc, has joined their board of directors (lead investors include folks who worked with Adam when [...]
What do you get when you use APIs to mashup retail shopping, auctions, analytics, reviews and coupons? For the VC-funded startup Mpire, you get a very useful set of shopping tools, what they call a universal shopping experience. They’ve used APIs from providers like Amazon, Shopping.com, eBay, Yahoo! Shopping and others, taken that data and [...]
We’ve been covering lots of new APIs in the blog lately like the Trulia API launch and the new Google Apps APIs, but there are a couple other new ones to check-out:
Democracy In Action API: No sooner did we profile a set of government-related APIs than another one was added. From their profile: “We’re a [...]
What happens when you offer cash prizes to developers in order to create telephony-based mashups? We found out last week at the O’Reilly ETel Emerging Telephony Conference where they and StrikeIron announced the winners in the O’Reilly Media and StrikeIron Telephony Mashup Contest (see our previous coverage). And as it turns-out, there were some very [...]
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