BEA AquaLogic Targets Enterprise Mashups

John Musser, July 17th, 2007

The enterprise mashup tools space continues to expand with this week’s announcement from BEA of their latest AquaLogic tools. This set of three Web 2.0 and social computing enterprise products includes Pages, a tool for lightweight web page creation, Ensemble, infrastructure software for mashup applications, and Pathways, an information discovery tool that combines social bookmarking [...]


Wesabe: An API for Your Bank Accounts

John Musser, July 16th, 2007

Banks and financial institutions may well be the last class of services to offer open APIs. In the meantime developers will have to look elsewhere to get this sort of data and so it’s notable that last week the first banking-related API appeared via the innovative personal finance service Wesabe. You can get details on [...]


New Web APIs: Adobe and Autodesk

John Musser, July 13th, 2007

A quick update on two new notable APIs in our directory, one from Adobe and the other from Autodesk. Here’s an overview:

Adobe on AIR API: In what’s probably the first API created as part of a product marketing tour, the folks at Adobe have created the Bus API to allow mashup development around this summer’s [...]


New Mashups for Video and Music Search

John Musser, July 12th, 2007

There’s been an increase in the number of web mashups for video and music lately. Here are three of the more interesting ones from the past two weeks:

Chime.TV: Slick Flash-based video aggregation service. Videos from blip.tv, Break.com, DailyMotion, Google Videos, Kewego, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh.com, YouTube all in one place. From Taylor McKnight, the creator of [...]


Mashup Camp 4 Next Week

John Musser, July 11th, 2007

Mashup Camp 4, the premier event for mashup developers and API providers takes place next week in Mountain View. There is no better place to go to meet with the key players in this field: mashup developers, API providers, tool providers, VCs and a range of other interesting folks (see the Who’s Coming List).
Camp organizers [...]


2 New Google APIs

John Musser, July 10th, 2007

Google continues their rapid expansion of new APIs — we have just added two more to our listings: the Google Safe Browsing API and the Google Custom Search API. What are they?
Google Safe Browsing API: How does Mozilla Firefox help prevent phishing attacks? It uses this API. As Google describes it: “The Safe Browsing API [...]


IBM’s Project Zero

John Musser, July 9th, 2007

IBM is working on a new product, now called Project Zero, designed to enable agile application development with a strong emphasis on REST architectures, mashup-style integration and Ajax interfaces. Their home page gives you a good summary:

Project Zero is an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next [...]


Intel’s MashMaker Coming Soon

John Musser, July 6th, 2007
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Intel is about to announce a new mashup construction tool call MashMaker later this month according to this story in vnunet [via]. Intel researchers demonstrated the appliction at Research at Intel Day last month. From the description in this Intel research paper from SIGMOD 07 (PDF) and this paper from Intel (PDF) it has elements [...]


New APIs: Printing and US Gov Documents

John Musser, July 5th, 2007

A quick update on a couple of the newer API additions to our directory, the first as a way to extend web-based printing and the second as a means to access over 300,000 US government documents.

Tabblo: A suite of simple developer tools from HP for making web sites more printable. This initial release provides a [...]


Skype’s New Mashup Contest

John Musser, July 3rd, 2007

Want a free trip to Prague this September? The trip is yours if you create the winning mashup in the new Skype Developer Mashup Competition. The Skype API opens-up the Skype platform and as you can see from the examples below it lets developers do some useful and innovative things. As for the contest itself, [...]


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