One of the cool things about the web is discovering new things. Whether it’s new music, an great web site or interesting people, the possibility exists for something exciting to be a click away. We constantly get new mashups submitted to our directory that focus on discovery and today we’re bringing you some of the newest and best.
Recently we have seen some imaginative mashups centered on books. From mapping story locations, building communities around book genres and even discovering the most obscure connections between details in your favorite stories, these mashups are nothing short of creative. In addition we’ve rounded up a couple of standard book search and recommendation applications. Some of the popular APIs used include Google Maps and Amazon.
As we sit here in Seattle fighting the snow and ice this week, I find myself looking at a lot of maps. Weather maps that show that the snow will, in fact continue to fall, neighborhood maps to see what others stuck at home are tweeting about, and even maps of warmer places because one can always dream. We took a look at some of our favorite mapping mashups over a year ago so today is a good time to see what is new.
College hackathons have proliferated on the northeast over the past two years, from HackNY to Startup Weekend Princeton, to PennApps, which the Dining Philosophers hold at the University of Pennsylvania on a weekend early in each semester.
This year theme was simplicity; taking a complicated app and making it easier. Of the 42 demos presented Sunday afternoon (livestream archive here), here are some of the coolest hacks that took full advantage of available APIs.
Where do you want to go eat? What movie should we watch? What do you feel like doing this weekend? Any of those questions sound familiar to you? Sometimes the answer is simple, but other times you simply don’t want to be forced to think. Fear not, ProgrammableWeb is here to help for those days when you’d rather let someone else do the decision making for you. These mashups take advantage of popular social APIs such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp and Last.fm to gather a wide range of recommendations. Give them a try, your new favorite thing may be just around the corner.
Recently we’ve seen a number of foursquare mashups and apps being submitted to our directory so today is a good time to take a look at some of the best. Each of the mashups below take advantage of the foursquare API to perform a variety of tasks from providing real-time info about local places, sharing music playlists, automating check-ins and more. Give these a look and let us know of other great mashups out there.
2011 was another great year for mashups. At ProgrammableWeb we saw over 900 new mashups added to our directory. Popular app categories such as mapping, search and shopping continued to lead the way. This year however saw social apps continue their rapid growth from the last couple of years. As 2011 comes to a close, we take a look back at some of the best and most popular mashups that were submitted.
It seems like analytics are everywhere today with businesses trying to make sense of the mountains of data they’ve collected to improve their users’ experiences and increase their own bottom line. Whether it’s tracking site visitors, following online conversations, understanding how leads turn into customers or increasing mobile engagement; businesses have a vested interest in using tools that turn their data into profits. Developers in the ProgrammableWeb community recognize this and frequently submit anaytics mashups to our directory. Today we’ll take a look at some of the best ones that we’ve recently come across.
As the year comes to a close and holiday season looms, many of us look forward to taking a few days off to take a break from all of our hard work and relax. What better way to unwind this holiday season than by catching up on all of the movies you missed this year? You’re in luck as we’ve gotten many great mashups this year that let you watch movies and trailers, browse your Netflix queue (you do still subscribe to Netflix right?) and share with your friends. Popular APIs for these mashups include Rotten Tomatoes, YouTube and Netflix. So without further ado, kick off your shoes, grab some popcorn and give these movie mashups a try.
Looking for work? We’ve all been there and know that at times the job search can be daunting. Jobs mashups have been submitted to our directory in higher numbers recently so today we’ll take a look at some of the best. A sampling of recent job search mashups leverage a variety of sources to help you find the perfect job. These include social APIs such as Twitter and LinkedIn as well as traditional job board API CareerBuilder.
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