Archive for April, 2007

Digg floats API, phishing mashups to come

Identity, copyright remain top concerns for those looking to make good on fledgling API model.
Digg is just the latest in a raft of Web 2.0 darlings to open their data doors to developers by way of APIs. The Digg API — announced yesterday at a party to celebrate Digg’s 1 millionth registered user — will […]

Startup readies AJAX development tool

Start-up Bungee Labs is launching a beta program to allow Web developers to create and deploy hosted Internet applications and Web tools using Asynchronous JavaScript XML technologies.
Developers who use the product Bungee Connect will be able to create Web applications that use services from Amazon, eBay, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, RealNetworks, Salesforce.com and Yahoo, Bungee Labs […]

Mashup to enable transportation management

A variety of pressures are leading a growing number of companies to look for collaborative transportation opportunities with other shippers to get better access to capacity and/or reduce transportation costs. Several software companies already offer collaborative capabilities.
Now, interesting news that a submission from Deepak Sharma of Tata Consultancy Services has won the first phase of […]

Google Maps Tap Ajax To Syndicate Feeds

The Ajax Feed API lets a developer tie a syndication feed to a mashup with two lines of Javascript, so they don’t need to know the details of what XML format would accompany a designated feed.
Google is making it easier to distribute new Google Maps mashups via an automated syndication feed, such as RSS.
That may […]

Building a Geographic Mashup in Visual Studio

Because it displays in a browser, you build your mashup as a Web application. You can begin by creating an HTML or ASP.NET project from Visual Studio, depending on your application goals. Once your project is created, open a new HTML document. From there, calling maps in Virtual Earth is easy. The SDK, found at […]

Google Brings Map Mashups To The Masses

Google wants to make everyone a mapmaker. The search company on Thursday introduced My Maps, a service that lets users create and customize Google Maps.
Developers have been doing just that since Google made its Maps API available. Being able to use Google’s code and add in your own bells and whistles has resulted in sites […]

Mashups: The new breed of Web app

A new breed of Web-based data integration applications is sprouting up all across the Internet. Colloquially termed mashups, their popularity stems from the emphasis on interactive user participation and the monster-of-Frankenstein-like manner in which they aggregate and stitch together third-party data. The sprouting metaphor is a reasonable one; a mashup Web site is characterized by […]