The Web 2.0 Expo keynote yesterday from Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos focused entirely on the family of Amazon Web Services APIs including S3 storage API, EC2 compute services, and the Simple Queue Service. While Jeff wouldn’t disclose which, he acknowledged they are working on other APIs in the ‘web infrastructure stack’.
In particular he revealed some [...]
If you’re interested in developing with any of the many Google APIs, you may want to mark May 31st on your calendar. That’s when Google is hosting their Google Developer Day 2007 in ten cities around the world. It gives you a chance to meet the Google developer product teams, maybe learn more about GData, [...]
Want to buy a slightly used mashup? For $10,000 you can own the outdoor community site MyOutdoors.net. The site, created in 2006 by brothers Dale and Brian Beerman, “provides everything the outdoor community needs to find and create journal entries of their outdoor activities”. You can see their ProgrammableWeb listing here.
Why is it for sale? [...]
Why take the trouble to open up your software to third-party add-ons through an API? Revenue, exposure, empire-building, and maybe now add to that list “API extrapreneurialism”. When you harvest the talent of outside programmers to improve and extend your product, sometimes the logical result is to purchase the company that took the [...]
Two new APIs added over the past couple of days are SharedBook, for reverse publishing of web content and Cicero, a tool for finding US elected officials by address. There are now 410 APIs listed.
SharedBook: An interesting new service for reverse publishing, so among other things you can turn web sites, including user-generated content, directly [...]
Just a quick note to remind civic-minded developers that there’s one week left in the Sunlight Congressional Mashup Contest, which ends on April 15th. Use mashups as your own way to shed lite on the US Congress. Our earlier coverage is here in Mashup Congress, Win Money. Speaking of which, we’ve listed this contest entry [...]
If you want to learn more about the real story behind mashups, APIs and tools — the good, bad and the ugly — you’re in luck. Today we’re introducing a new feature on the site: the ProgrammableWeb Case Studies. In this ongoing series we’ll be going behind the scenes of the programmable web by talking [...]
The maps mashup landscape changed forever yesterday with Google’s announcement of My Maps, a new service which allows non-programmers to easily create maps mashups. With tens of thousands of maps mashups out there already this of course quickly lead to a tremendous increase. And while some of the basic features have been previously available from [...]
Here’s an interesting set of new mashups, all three quite visual: visualize the relationship with your friends, get a map-centric view of Twitter activity, and make Skype more visual by integrating web maps.
Friend Explorer: Relationship visualization mashup. Graph your Facebook friends and their connections to each other.
Twitter Atlas: Most recently posted Twitters locations plotted on [...]
In addition to the new enterprise APIs, the latest entries to our API listings in the past few days cover widgets, events and music. Here’s a summary:
yourminis: Launched last fall, this Flash-based widget startpage from the folks at Goowy now has a Flash API so you can develop your own widgets. Because they’re Flash widgets [...]
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