The humongous amount of data that Twitter generates daily, is spawning a new breed of company that is analyzing the data and providing value-added services on it. While the data mining and intelligence applications are still in their infancy, there are interesting applications that you can use today.
Web APIs and mashups are not only of interest to the developer community. There are also research activities that look at how to improve various aspects of API design as well as services’ and mashups’ implementation and deployment. If you are interested in a cutting-edge research that may influence the future of Web APIs, then you should look at series of workshops on Web APIs and Service Mashups.
Careful what photos you tweet–and where you were when you snapped the shot. There’s another site designed to warn you against the hazards of over-sharing. This time it’s not related to active location-sharing, but instead accidental. The meta-data stored in your photos may be giving away where you live.
It seems that news pieces are rarely written from a neutral point of view these days, and political news can be especially prone to bias. But how can the average reader, who probably has no idea of the political ties between those mentioned in a news piece, see the larger picture? Sunlight labs, who are dedicated to creating tools that make government data more accessible, have a new service that helps you see the story behind the story.
Yahoo has removed the commercial restrictions on Yahoo Updates API, its social streams service that provides real-time user activity data. In addition, Yahoo increased the usage limits to make the platform more viable for commercial websites.
The conference that’s been called Geek Spring Break is about to close its PanelPicker, the tool it uses to accept votes from the community. South by Southwest Interactive isn’t until March in Austin, but voting closes Friday at midnight. There are a handful of API-related panels, so get your votes in. The community’s votes count for 30% of the say in what gets chosen for SXSW 2011.
Arguably, Salesforce.com brought the software-as-a-service (SaaS) concept mainstream. Today, if software isn’t available as a service, it’s considered old school. But software — as a service or not — is just a container. What makes software valuable has always been what it does to data. Now, in the same spirit of service-oriented architectures and SaaS, a new concept is emerging, Data-as-a-Service (DaaS).
With the real-time web being claimed by some to be one of the core components of Web 3.0 it’s unsurprising that we are seeing more real-time APIs and real-time mashups being developed. One mashup has just been created using Kwwika and Superfeedr to demonstrate how two real-time platforms can be integrated to create a real-time news reader application.
We have mashups to help us figure out where we want to go, the best way to get there, and then what’s the coolest stuff to do when we get there. One thing that’s often overlooked is how much it’ll cost us to get from point A to point B.
Seattle based Front Seat software launched a new service to rank public transit for an area. The service almost perfectly illustrates the value of open government data. The “Transit Score” offers a handy location score that’s compelling because transportation is a major factor in picking an affordable place to live.
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