The latest big social platform news comes from Bebo, the third largest social network in the US with 40 million users, who yesterday officially announced their Open Application Platform. The most notable part of the launch is that Bebo will be supporting both Facebook plus OpenSocial as “standards” and that the Facebook team has been [...]
Earlier this year in Beware Mashup Spam we saw how spammers were working on gaming Google Maps via mass uploads and creating questionable or false listings. Well, Search Engine Land’s Mike Blumenthal has just followed-up on his initial report with more in yesterday’s MapSpammers Getting More Sophisticated.
In a nutshell, Mike reports on get rich [...]
Yesterday LinkedIn made a broad set of announcements including a new user interface, additional features like a news feed, and more details on their new developer APIs and platform. The API will be phased in over the next few months and we’ve created our initial LinkedIn API Profile here. It looks like a full-featured platform [...]
Last Thursday at Amazon headquarters in Seattle, in a bid to win what might be the biggest web services-related prize to date, teams from 7 companies using Amazon Web Services APIs competed for $100K in the AWS Startup Challenge. As
Google continues to innovate on the API front, today releasing an API in a very different category: charting. What is it? From the FAQ: “The Google Chart API is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a web page. You embed the data and [...]
Of the the 2565 mashups listed here just over 9% are tagged “shopping”. That’s 338 shopping mashups. Each week we see a variety of the 33 e-commerce APIs used for interesting forms of shopping applications and this past week’s been no exception. The e-commerce API segment is so active that we’ve created a new section [...]
There are a growing range of open web service APIs providing email-related services, whether that’s for sending bulk emails, managing email marketing campaigns, validating email addresses, sending blog posts as emails or provisioning hosted email services. As of now, we have 16 email-related APIs listed here on ProgrammableWeb. Many of these are natural extensions of [...]
At last month’s Mashup Camp Europe over in Dublin, Ireland the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) team of Chad Dickerson and Tom Hughes-Croucher brought along their Y! video cam and journeyed out to see if they could get Dublin’s citizens and visitors to answer the question “What’s a mashup?”. From the dry delivery to the semi-censored [...]
The competition between enterprise mashup tools continues and the latest move comes from Serena Software who today began shipping their Serena Business Mashups 2008 platform. This release includes the visual design tool Serena Mashup Composer and the runtime engine called Mashup Server. As we covered earlier Serena’s looking to deliver point-and-click creation of business mashups [...]
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