Developers now have an additional opportunity to contribute to their karma by developing socially conscious applications with the newly released Kiva API (our new Kiva API profile). Kiva, a person-to-person micro-lending site, announced the release of the RESTful API on its new developer blog earlier today. This is great news for the mashup community.
Create social change with your unique mashup idea. That’s the pitch to mashup developers from the folks at NetSquared for their NetSquared Mashup Challenge.
How much impact does your daily activity have on the environment? You might be able to answer this question using new carbon footprint calculation mashups built with our recent API listing: AMEE, the Avoid Mass Extinctions Engine. AMEE launched their platform in June of this year and their mission is to “Enable any climate campaign [...]
Can web mashups keep politicians on their toes? That’s the question raised by a story in yesterday’s Wired entitled “Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington’s Newest Watchdogs”. In particular, the story profiles: MapLight.org, a nonpartisan website offering legislative data; the widely debated and bitterly fought California SB217 which would have banned clear-cutting in ancient forests; [...]
Dan Cohen over at George Mason University looked that APIs listed here and asked a good question: Where Are the Noncommercial APIs?. He makes a number of valid points here:
One of my pet peeves as someone trying to develop software tools for scholars, teachers, and students is the lack of application programming interfaces (APIs) for [...]
Givezilla is a company started by Richard Waldvogel in Longmont Colorado that helps nonprofits earn up to 10 percent of product sales made on their Web sites. They do this by helping nonprofits create specialized, no-cost storefronts — little Amazons — that allow visitors to purchase merchandise directly from a nonprofit’s site. Underneath the covers [...]
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