One of the traditional issues with software-as-a-service products is limited ability to customize. That’s one of the issues Salesforce.com is looking to tackle at this week’s Dreamforce Conference when their new Force.com, or “platform as a service”, is combined with Visualforce, a set of tools for “user interface as a service”. As you can see [...]
Here’s a somewhat unlikely mashup niche: finding a parking space for your vehicle. These 6 mashups give you ways to find a spot at the airport, in NYC, SF or other locales, and to do so by mobile phone and even with realtime space availability:
Parking Carma: Unique service that determines the real-time availability of parking [...]
Just yesterday we saw how mashups can become aqusition targets and today we see how a company’s internal mashups can become part of their external products. Yahoo’s vice president of Yahoo’s advanced development Bradley Horowitz has just announced that two innovative projects created during an internal Yahoo “Hack Day” event earlier this year, have been [...]
Demonstrating that a sufficiently talented solo mashup developer can succeed in building an application worthy of purchase by a major corporation, David Schorr’s terrific Weatherbonk was aqcuired by The Weather Channel Interactive yesterday. The mashup does a great job of integrating disparate sources like weather and traffic cams, news reports, multiple data sources, and historical [...]
Mashups shouldn’t be just for software developers, especially not business mashups. That’s the message from Serena Software, who yesterday unveiled Serena Mashup Composer for “point-and-click creation of Business Mashups”. It’s an application, a platform and a marketplace aimed at an audience of Office power users. You can sign-up now for a beta of the tool [...]
In a very interesting interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Sean Ammirati at Read/WriteTalk asks some good questions about the role of the the Twitter API in their success and plans going forward. Two things that jumps out is that Biz’s comment that the API has 10x the traffic of the website and that of [...]
Firefox has become a very popular development platform and it’s no surprise that some of the hundreds of developer-built extensions are using third party APIs like those listed here. As of now you can see 12 Firefox mashups listed here at PW. Some worth checking-out include:
Shareaholic: The most recent addition to our listings, this Firefox [...]
The number of web service APIs for data storage in the cloud keeps growing. The latest entry comes from startup Nirvanix and you can see our Nirvanix API profile here. Nirvanix describes their storage services as an Internet Media File System (IMFS). It’s a fairly rich API with nearly 75 pages of documentation. Their API [...]
If you keep an eye on the Most Popular New Mashups section of ProgrammableWeb you get a reasonably good sense of which mashups folks think are most interesting. One that quickly rose to the top of the list recently is a Big Huge Labs. Home of “fd’s Flickr Toys”, it’s a great mix of over [...]
The shopping comparison service EarlyMiser is a classic example of a useful eCommerce application built using a set of third party APIs. In this case study interview we speak with EarlyMiser founder Brian DeSpain who gives us the background on this application, its business model, and some interesting insights from their experience in working with [...]
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