UMap, provided by AFComponents, is a Flash ActionScript mapping API that allows developers to create custom map mashups with interactive data layers. Umap includes a variety of features including support for Flash/Flex versions, custom map tiles integration, KML support, and other capabilities (see our UMap API Profile for more).
AOL and TopCoder have announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. As I described in May, the contestants applied AOL’s Truveo Video Search API to develop “a cool widget, gadget, mashup or web application.” The $100,000 contest awarded $10,000 first place prizes to nine competitors.
Last month Yahoo! announced BOSS, its Build Your Own Search Service, which “allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search.” The REST API allows developers to get results in XML or JSON format for web, news, and image search queries. Recently the official Yahoo! Search Blog showcased a handful of the best mashups that third-party developers created in BOSS’s first month of operation.
After much anticipation since its private beta release in March, Yahoo! has made Fire Eagle publicly available. Fire Eagle is an open geo-location platform that allows users to broadcast their geographic location to the Web while at the same time giving the the ability to easily control how and on which sites location data is shared (our Fire Eagle API profile).
Last month reported on how the UK government has established the Power of Information Task Force to lead a massive data sharing effort aimed at fostering social and economic progress by enabling widespread access to government data.
Map mashups continue to be extremely popular, as evidenced by the high percentage of mapping APIs in our API Directory and map mashups in our Mashup Directory. Whether you’re just getting started with map mashups, or you’re a veteran map mashup developer, there are several tools out there that can help with your development efforts.
Dipity is an innovative web service that lets users create interactive multimedia timelines for anything from breaking news to Internet Memes. But the real action is behind the scenes with their extensive web service, which allows third parties to build and manage timelines programmatically (our Dipity API profile).
The world of video APIs continues its impressive surge, with 40 APIS now listed on ProgrammableWeb, up from the 30 video APIs profiled in February and more than double the 19 video APIs from last fall. And more video mashups appear every week, now with 340 video mashups listed.
Yesterday at the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog Jim Bumgardner, a front-end engineer and “Yahoo! Music Nerd,” announced the release of the Yahoo! Music API.
Swivel, along with its cousin IBM Research’s Many Eyes, is helping make sharing, visualizing, and discussing data on the web fun and addictive. How? Take, for example, the following Swivel-hosted graph, which shows the Growth of Creative Commons Photos on Flickr to millions of photos.
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