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Continuing the series on books for mashup developers — last week Flickr Mashup Books — here is a quick summary of books that can help you build mashups with the various Amazon APIs.
Note that the Amazon APIs are quite popular with 94 Amazon e-commerce API mashups listed at ProgrammableWeb. And you can use the [...]
Mike Pegg does a great job tracking the most interesting maps mashups over at his Google Maps Mania. Occasionally he also does a roundup of tools for creating or enhancing Google Maps. Follow this link to see his eighth roundup of these tools along with links to the previous seven roundups. Good mix of Google [...]
ProgrammableWeb’s 2005 year-end ’stats’: 137 APIs & 275 mashups.
This time next year? We’ll see, but somehow suspect by then this year’s numbers will look tiny by comparison…
Happy New Year to all!
Tom Evslin, in a typically thoughtful pair of posts, Bubble 2.0 – It’s The APIs and Bubble 2.0 – Why Not APIs?, addressed the topic of APIs. Beginning with a concise historical background he covers the strategy behind providing APIs and answers the question, why would a provider not want to build an API? [...]
Below are a sampling of some of the other, non-mashup link contributions folks have made recently.
Andrew Bidochko added a link to Map Builder where you use a web form to build your own Google Map without any coding. Quite slick.
Send a fax from PHP using this new example from Interfax. You can send a [...]
Chris Law, creator of the wsfinder wiki and blog, has just started a very interesting new blog, 1000 Flowers Bloom, subtitled ‘Silicon Valley is fertile ground’. He’s starting with a series of podcast interviews, the first with Toni Schneider, Yahoo!’s VP of Developer Relations discussing their API strategy and the latest interview with Microsoft’s [...]
Two API additions today:
Urban Dictionary: an API for when you’re curious about what frontin, party foul, low pro po, and tool really mean.
AmphetaRate: a news feed aggregation service.
Chris Law who last week started the wsfinder wiki, blog and very interesting Map of the Web 2.0 World has suggested that it might make sense to join forces, along with the new Web API Tracker blog, “give the community one definitive place to go” for Web API resources. I completely agree. Given the [...]





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