Archive for March, 2007

Mashups: Mix, Match, And Mutate

Looking for a place to live last year, Paul over Silicon Valley rentals on craigslist, the popular online classified-ad site. But the 3D-software engineer grew frustrated that he couldn’t see the properties’ locations on one map. So Rademacher hacked his own solution — a Web site that combines craigslist rentals with search engine Google Inc.’s […]

Legal Issues Arising from Web Mashups

As society has moved into the Internet Age, we are growing accustomed to having more and more data at our finger tips in more formats about more topics. Very simply, consumers are demanding a lot of content. In order to grab traffic and corresponding market share, entertainment and media companies are scrambling to try to […]

Making mashups work in the enterprise

There is value in enterprise mashups, but businesses need to engage in careful planning when taking the plunge. Enterprise mashups are growing in popularity and there are many mashups on the Web today. A mashup refers to a Web application that combines content from multiple sources, typically created using application program interfaces (APIs).
Echoing Gartner’s […]

Video: What are Mashups?

Learn in this video from an ZDnet editor what Mashups and APIs are and how you go about making one of the great wonders of the Web2.0.

Xing gets on the mashup scene with API launch

Xing, LinkedIn’s European cousin, has launched its API in preview mode with public release slated for launch later in the year. All the action just cause Xing doesn’t want to loose out on the mashup scene which has been catching up fast as more and more content gets widgetized every moment. Some of the Teqlets […]

Microsoft Joins the OpenAjax Alliance

The OpenAjax Alliance, which now counts Microsoft as its latest member, is producing a set of requirements it calls OpenAjax Conformance. These OpenAjax requirements are designed to offer seamless integration of Ajax technologies, including Ajax code that uses mashup techniques to draw in data from disparate platforms.
In a move that could signal a general movement […]

Enterprise Mashups: The Web 2.0 mix master

ImageEnterprise Mashups - instant, infinitely customisable web applications - are being hailed by some as the future of the Web and the natural result of the Web 2.0 ethos.
IBM’s chief technical officer Emerging Internet Technologies, David Boloker is an acknowledged expert on Enterprise Mashups and is part of an IBM team developing the technology and […]

BioDiesel Mashup for the ride home?

A friend of mine headed back to Seattle to move in a new apartment today. 970 miles eats up a lot of BioDiesel. Fortunately he found this Google Maps Mashup of US BioDiesel fueling stations! What a luck.
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Using Google, Microsoft & Yahoo APIs To Create Mashups

Application programming interfaces are what make location mashups easy to build. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo each have APIs that developers can use to overlay virtually any kind of information on a map.
Yahoo offers Ajax and Flash versions of its APIs, and Yahoo was one of first of the big portals to embrace GeoRSS, an extension […]

Sun Microsystems Launches The Big Mashup

In the last twenty five years, we have been living through the “Information Age,” so named because of the impact information technologies have had on our lives. It’s a valid label, as the commerce of information today represents a huge percentage of all economic activity in the world. Millions upon millions of people produce information, […]