Build Agnostic Map Mashups with Mapstraction
If you're getting ready to get create a map mashup, but you can't quite decide on which mapping API to use, you may want to check out Mapstraction.Read more
If you're getting ready to get create a map mashup, but you can't quite decide on which mapping API to use, you may want to check out Mapstraction.Read more
Voices.com is an online marketplace for voice-over talent, where clients looking for actors to provide narration for commercials, documentaries, video games and the like can search for that talent.Read more
The new Google Patent Search API is now available and lets you search over 7 million patents via code. It is part of the AJAX Search API suite of [...]Read more
AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money. AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform where developers profit from [...]Read more
AideRSS, an RSS feed filtering service, has recently made available a public API. The AideRSS tagline is 'Read what matters' and their mission is to "research every story and [...]Read more
How should the American federal government make available its data? In a preprint of a forthcoming paper from Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, Government Data and the Invisible Hand, researchers argue for the role of remixable data in [...]Read more
In Chicago today eBay will kick-off of their annual eBay Developer's Conference by announcing Project Echo, a way for outside developers to integrate their apps "directly onto the world's largest ecommerce site".Read more
Micro-commerce is an emerging global trend, from the microcredit pioneered by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, to micropayment systems offered by companies like ZayPay. ZayPay is used for payments [...]Read more
What happens when the API is technically secure but the environment, whether widget, web site or mashup, is not? Recent security breaches in MySpace and Yahoo, which led to the release of semi-embarrassing photos of prolific celebs Paris Hilton and [...]Read more
For many it's dream that computer programs would lets us see into the essential meaning of the words of a text like the Bible. Although we don't have such [...]Read more
What do online retailing and selling web infrastructure services have in common? It's a good question and one that Om Malik posed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at last week's D6 Conference in this very good, impromptu video interview.Read more
arXiv.org is an online archive of nearly a half million science, math, and computer science research documents.Read more
In yet another interesting API move, Google has just released a simple but useful API for managing AJAX APIs called the AJAX Libraries API. The goal is to help [...]Read more
Demonstrating a new way to build commercial applications on an API, Google's YouTube team have announced a new partnership with Sony that uses the YouTube API to allow players [...]Read more
Last week, Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash, the latest extension of their extremely popular Google Maps API.Read more
Seattle-based wiki and social network startup Wetpaint today announced Wetpaint Injected, a new embeddable publishing platform designed to allow creation of user-generated content directly within any site.Read more
Yesterday, Yahoo announced its new Internet Location Platform API, "a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth" that "provide the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary [...]Read more
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3000 mashups. That's how many mashups are now listed in our ProgrammableWeb directory as of last week.Read more
Thanks to some new API updates, one can now update the Location field in a Twitter user's profile using the Twitter API.Read more