Web Serice and Mashup Pros and Cons and the First Google Clone
Over at Web Directions South, a good collection of pros and cons regarding web services and mashups from Kevin Yanks and Cameron Adams. Some choice things from the list Having an API allows external...
View ArticleMashups versus Facebook
I’ve been playing around with the Facebook API over the last few weeks. There’s only a very limited Ajax capability in the API — they call it "Mock Ajax" — that allows you to sub some very restricted...
View Article.Mac improvements: That's it?
Amidst all the hardware news at Apple’s Mac-focused media event last week, it was easy to overlook the announcement of some tweaks to the widely reviled .Mac web-services suite. Easy to overlook not...
View ArticleTibco GI/Craigs List Bashup
Over at Ajaxian you can read about a pretty cool remix of Craig’s List, somewhat similar to what I’ve been working on with GWT. I’ve termed this a "bashup," rather than a "mashup," because it kind of...
View ArticleTop 15 music APIs to power your next mashup
Music and the web have a long history, from Napster through the iTunes Store to the MP3 blogs of today. For Web 2.0 hackers, however, the availability of public APIs proves pretty hit or miss. Cool...
View ArticleSMash – Something Useful from the OpenAjax Alliance?
In the announcement that the OpenAjax Alliance had released OpenAjax Hub 1.0, and would start to work toward 1.1, there was one thing that caught my interest: the news that 1.1 would support secure...
View ArticleEveryblock, Another Missed Opportunity for Newspapers
Earlier this year I attended TECH cocktail’s first Chicago conference. They’ve been filling a much needed local networking role for technology entrepreneurs, and their first conference here was both...
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