Semantic Web Mashups and Freebase

John Musser, March 20th, 2008

Want to see who influenced Marcel Duchamp, or who he was influenced by, or his peers? Yesterday’s Mashup of the Day, Free Influencer, is one semantic web style way to see these connections.


When ToS Enforce the Word of God

Raymond Yee, March 19th, 2008

Developers know that it’s a good idea to carefully read the terms of service (ToS) for APIs you use. However, it’s all too easy to ignore a ToS as nothing more than legal boilerplate.


45 Mashup Contests and Counting

Kevin Farnham, March 18th, 2008

If you know how to develop mashups then you may be in line to win some very big prizes. To get a sense of just how much money and how many prizes, take a look at the ProgrammableWeb Contest Guide and you’ll find that there have been more than 45 mashup contests thus far.


Google Releases API for Book Search

Raymond Yee, March 17th, 2008

As announced on the Official Google Blog and Inside Google Book Search, Google has just released a Google Book Search Book Viewability API.


Yahoo Search and the Semantic Web

John Musser, March 14th, 2008

Yahoo has announced a concerted effort around their upcoming open search platform to push open web standards including microformats and semantic web formats like RDF and XFN.


Microsoft’s Data Stack Goes Up to the Cloud

John Musser, March 13th, 2008

Building on their flurry of announcements around last week’s MIX08 event, Microsoft’s Live Platform Services GM, George Moore has just outlined in the dev.live blog how Microsoft plans to unify their storage solutions from on premise all the way up to cloud storage.


New YouTube API Means YouTube Anywhere

John Musser, March 12th, 2008

The most popular video API is about to become more popular. As just announced by Googe’s Jim Patterson on the YouTube blog, YouTube Everywhere, the YouTube API has just been upgraded with some very powerful new features.


Yahoo Joining OpenSocial, NYTimes Report

John Musser, March 12th, 2008

The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo May Join Google-Led Social Networking Alliance. In the post from Miguel Helft, the word is that Yahoo intends join the Google-led alliance “as early as this week”. As we reported earlier today, there has been lots happening with OpenSocial and we’ll be hearing more shortly. Here’s more [...]


Latest OpenSocial News from GSP West

John Musser, March 12th, 2008

While there may not be as much buzz about OpenSocial right now as there was at launch, lots of progress is being made by folks inside and outside of Google.


36 Photo APIs

Kevin Farnham, March 11th, 2008
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Most people don’t realize how many popular photo services like Flickr, Smugmug and Picasa offer web APIs. In this overview, we’ll take a look at the breadth and power of currently available photo APIs and the types of photo mashups developers are building with them.


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