http://www.webmashup.com/blog The Open Directory & Blog for Mashups & Web 2.0 APIs Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:46:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With earthquake incidents grabbing headlines this past week in Indonesia and Peru, Reto Meier is along with this timely Google Maps mashup called Earthquake!Il http://www.poker-inlinea.com è un gioco di carte. "A global earthquake mashup with a difference." Reto has this to say: "..I've drawn my influenceCompared to your ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/08/18/earthquake-a-google-maps-mashup/ lthough not all of the 17 mashup development platforms he identifies target the enterprise, Web 2.0 and enterprise social computing expert Dion Hinchcliffe nonetheless provides major grist to the E2.0 mill in his recent round-up of what he calls "a bumper crop of new mashup platforms." Citing the recent McKinsey Web ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/07/26/web-20-style-mashups-making-inroads-in-the-enterprise/ Gartner, Inc., recently announced its 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which assesses the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 36 key technologies and trends during the next ten years. This year’s hype cycle highlights three major themes that are experiencing significant activity and which include new or heavily hyped technologies, ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/07/25/mashups-and-the-emerging-technoglogies-hype-cycle/ So what’s typically missing from today’s mashup platforms to make them both useful and desirable in the enterprise? While no one knows for sure, since mashups are just starting to be considered seriously in many organizations, it generally boils down to 1) deep access to existing enterprise services and data/content ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/07/25/mashup-tools/ Google Mashup Editor (GME) is an interactive development environment in which you edit, compile, test, and manage your applications. The editor includes a built-in reference guide to all GME tags and attributes. When your application is finished, you can publish it on Google’s servers, where it’s available for others to ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/07/14/google-mashup-editor-getting-started-guide/ Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of this year's biggest trends. It's one that's also moving away from simple applications to whole hosted development platforms. Google's Mashup Editor is the latest online development platform to appear. Like Microsoft's Popfly and Yahoo!'s Pipes before it, it's a tool for building hosted ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/07/07/google-mashup-beta-goes-out-to-world-dog/ I have found a great link that will calculate your blogs worth? How much cost you should take when you sell your blog to other peoples. Inspired by Tristan Louis's research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, Dan Carlon's have created this little applet using Technorati's API which ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/07/07/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/ Suddenly the term "mashup" is appearing everywhere. Have your kids used it yet? They probably will soon if they are not already. We are probably going to see many "mashups" - or the digital remixing of content including music, sound bytes, pictures, text, video and more - as the 2008 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/30/vocabulary-building-for-parents-a-mashup/ Mashups are not something for tomorrow - they have already arrived. This can be seen by the increasing number of mashup tools that are available. I have been writing about a number of mashup tools on my blog, and I encourage you to take a look. Here is my list of ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/27/mashup-tool-tutorials-popfly-ajax-swivel-schmapplets/ Here is a step by step guid to how to build a simple mashup with Microsoft's new Poplfy platform. Click here: Create a Poply Mashup Guide http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/27/how-to-build-a-simple-mashup-step-by-step-with-popfly/ A good way to remember things is to use mnemonics, so when you're trying to list the security issues relevant to Web 2.0 just remember this: it's a MASHup. * More of everything. * Asymmetric data formats * Scripting based ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/27/the-risks-of-mashups-web-20-applications/ Almost every keynote, presentation or sales pitch at this week's Enterprise 2.0 conference eventually gets round to the same theme: The consumerization of enterprise IT. We've all become accustomed to RIAs and new ways of communicating in our personal lives, and people just now entering the workforce have never known ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/24/ibm-bea-mash-up-line-of-business-employees/ "Enterprise 2.0" has a simple definition: The application of Web 2.0 technologies to the enterprise. But there are almost as many different meanings for "Web 2.0" as there are mashups, making "Enterprise 2.0" an equally nebulous concept. At this week's Enterprise 2.0 show, the emphasis was on RIAs (rich Internet ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/24/what-is-enterprise-20/ Despite its lack of a precise definition, Web 2.0 is becoming a major influence in the corporate world. The theme of a good number of stories published this week in association with the Enterprise 2.0 conference that was held in Boston is that IT personnel can’t stop the tide and, ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/22/web-20-tools-become-mainstream-for-corporations/ This morning I moderated the debate between Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport on the merits of Enterprise 2.0 (watch the video of the debate). The two professors agreed that Enterprise 2.0 is in its infancy, but disagreed on the potential for it to transform how people work in corporations. McAfee, an ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/20/mcafee-and-davenport-value-of-enterprise-20/ Microsoft demonstrates new managed network mashups from Sandbox members, announces winner of first Sandbox developer competition, welcomes new Sandbox partners, wins NXTcomm award. The Connected Services Sandbox was created to help telecommunications service providers rapidly develop, test and commercialize a range of innovative new services," said Michael O'Hara, general manager ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/20/microsoft-shows-off-the-toys-in-its-sandbox/ The Google AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic features on your existing web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. Using this family of APIs you can add a map to your site, include dynamic search controls, or download and mashup feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. The ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/15/55/ Starting today, Skype invites you to build and demonstrate innovative, exciting, useful and even down-right weird Mashups. The competition runs up to Sept 12th and the Skype developer's conference in Prague. The one requirement seems to be that there should be at least some use of the Skype API. Judges will ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/15/skype-mashup-competition/ Now that Google is offering a number of clever ways to increase the number of users of your mashup how to increase revenues for publishers? Lat49 is coming out with a very cool solution for mashup developers and those looking to earn some revenues from their websites and mashups. The ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/15/lat49-monetize-your-google-map-mashup/ In lieu of an iPhone SDK, David Cann emulates the interface of the phone with JavaScript. This is a one-night proof of concept. If its getting popular, he will develop the interface into a class or template. It works best in Safari, of course. Source code is available for download. http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/14/iphone-interface-in-javascript-with-digg-api/ We all know that Mac developers aren't thrilled with the 'iPhone SDK' which boils down to creating webpages with JavaScript. This isn't anything new or exciting, since we've known for awhile that the iPhone is running a full version of Safari. David Cann has whipped up a demo page that shows ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/14/iphone-webapp-mock-up/ Yesterday, as can be seen from the video, we captured a part of eBay’s senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini’s keynote address at eBay’s Developer Conference in Boston. eBay made a series of announcements regarding new APIs and developer tools. Among them, the release of two new APIs that ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/13/ebays-new-api-dawn-of-commerce-revolution/ Kapow Technologies today announced two new editions of the Kapow Mashup Server family, extending its lead as the only mashup solution that provides universal access to data and services across the enterprise. According to industry analysts, mashups are one of the most promising trends in IT today, with the potential to ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/12/new-kapow-mashup-server-editions/ Developers will be able to create applications for Apple's forthcoming iPhone through the device's browser, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs revealed at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. "We have been trying to find a solution to expand the capabilities of the iPhone by letting developers write applications for ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/12/apple-calls-on-iphone-developers/ Developers are a key part of eBay's community, making it easier for buyers and sellers to connect and transact. The online auction site is now going to open up its platforms even further to developers with a series of new APIs (define) that enable even more interaction with eBay's services. Among ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/12/ebay-opens-wide-with-more-apis/ This is a good (though corporately slick) video presentation on the opportunities inherent in Web 2.0, Mashups and APIs despite the misgivings of Andrew Keen and company. http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/11/video-the-big-mashup/ Have you been to the Google Developer Day 2007? No? Does not matter, because here you can access all 128 videos of the event. Here is one example: http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/11/google-developer-day-2007-128-videos/ The Google Maps API is a powerful way to put a custom map on your website. In this session, you'll learn just how easy it is to create your own maps mashup. We'll start with the basics and progress through the tools that the API provides. By the end of ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/10/video-google-maps-api-introduction/ "Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API, although some in the community believe that only cases where public interfaces are not used count as mashups. Other methods of sourcing content for mashups include Web feeds (e.g. RSS or Atom), web ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/10/mash-ups-or-mess-ups/ Now that Web 2.0 hype is at full tilt, much ado's being made over Ajax framework vulnerabilities and other new-fangled bugs. A prime example of this phenomenon is the spectacular Javascript hijacking vulnerability discovered by Fortify Software (login required). Every security bug like this deserves some ink, but too much ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/08/json-ajax-web-20/ Geo-tagging allows individual content like blog posts to be marked with code that search engines and geo-directories. This will create a hyperlocal way of searching for content which will work very nicely in mobile devices that know where you are. Influx says: For the last couple of years the focus has ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/05/from-map-mashups-to-geo-tagging/ At Google Developer Day 2007 in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, television-sized blocks painted with Google's signature red, yellow, green, and blue were stacked on stage in Exhibit Hall 2, where the keynote was delivered. The blocks represented Google's vision of Web development. For those who missed the metaphor, the keynote ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/03/google-introduces-new-developer-tools/ Google touted on Thursday its building-block approach for application development, which features mashups and open source software. Mashups link different Internet applications to form a new application. They are becoming the model for developers to build applications, said Jeff Huber, Google vice president of engineering, during a keynote presentation at the ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/02/google-stresses-mashups-at-developer-event/ First there was Yahoo Pipes. Then Microsoft’s Popfly. Today, it’s Google’s Mashup Editor. Google has begun offering limited test to “a small number of developers.” The news comes as Google launches a host of new toys for developers including Google Gears, which is designed to provide offline access to Web applications ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/06/02/google-tests-new-mashup-editor/ he internet and some huge advances in mapping technology have created a hot new hobby: Do-it-yourself map-making, or "map mashups". A free service from Google is making it all possible. Google's mapping features have been available for a couple of years now and as it's taken off, it's developed a subculture of ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/28/mapping-technology-advances-with-map-mashups/ The main page of John Musser's excellent Mashup Feed site enumerates the average creation rate of brand-new offerings, presently showing there are 3.17 new mashups created every day. The implication, says Enterprise 2.0 and social computing expert Dion Hinchcliffe, is clearly that "something momentous is happening." But are mashups a fad ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/25/are-enterprise-mashups-a-fad-or-the-future/ For most people, getting high-quality targeted visitors to their new mashup web site is probably one of the "hardest" things to do ... unfortunately it's also the most important. The reason it is difficult for most small businesses and web marketers is that the majority of popular site promotion strategies either ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/18/trafficswarm-get-targeted-traffic-to-your-mashup-site/ Microsoft on Friday morning launched Popfly, a service for creating mashup applications specifically designed for people who don't know how, or want to, write developer code. The free service, which is now in private alpha, provides a visual way for constructing mashup applications and widgets which can be embedded in blogs ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/18/microsofts-popfly-mashup-creation-for-the-masses/ At last week's Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/17/mashups-the-next-software-development-model/ Mashups need to get serious and take a lesson from SOBAs if they're to succeed in the world of enterprises. The Web 2.0 era has ushered in mashups, the practice of stitching together applications from a collection of existing -- and usually Web-based -- assets. These days, one can hardly launch a ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/17/analyst-looks-at-mashups-vs-sobas/ E-commerce mashup company Mpire released on Wednesday a widget that lets bloggers and Web site operators embed shopping widgets in their Web pages. The widgets will display trend information culled from different e-commerce sites, including eBay and Amazon.com, and let people buy items online from the widget. For example, a person who ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/12/mpire-mashup-widget-plugs-you-into-shopping-networks/ A British company is looking to bring the Web 2.0 concept of mashups to businesses. More normally found in consumer and social networking sites, a mashup is the name given to the type of website that has been pulled together from a variety of different sources. BT has developed a mashup ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/09/bt-relies-on-web-mashups-for-broadband-support/ I'm at the IBM Mashup Summit in San Francisco today. As we are within the bowels of a large enterprise, there is a process to follow to get wifi access, so I'm offline. ibm mashup summit We're here to talk about mashups within the enterprise. With all the ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/09/ibm-mashup-summit/ The dream of every CIO, says Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan is to instantly turn all of their legacy applications into reusable components. "Who wouldn’t want to flip a switch and have all of their legacy apps and code extend into Web services and just plain services," Carden asks with a ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/05/04/openspan-beyond-the-enterprise-mashup/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/21/digg-floats-api-phishing-mashups-to-come/ 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, ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/21/startup-readies-ajax-development-tool/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/21/mashup-to-enable-transportation-management/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/21/google-maps-tap-ajax-to-syndicate-feeds/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/18/building-a-geographic-mashup-in-visual-studio/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/06/google-brings-map-mashups-to-the-masses/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/04/06/mashups-the-new-breed-of-web-app/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/31/mashups-mix-match-and-mutate/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/29/legal-issues-arising-from-web-mashups/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/26/making-mashups-work-in-the-enterprise/ 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. http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/25/video-what-are-mashups/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/24/xing-gets-on-the-mashup-scene-with-api-launch/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/23/microsoft-joins-the-openajax-alliance/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/22/enterprise-mashups-%e2%80%93-the-web-20-mix-master/ 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. To Mapping Mashup Category http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/19/biodiesel-mashup-for-the-ride-home%ef%bf%bd/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/18/using-google-microsoft-yahoo-apis-to-create-mashups/ 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 ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/15/sun-microsystems-launches-the-big-mashup/ Microsoft Corp. hopes that taking a page out of its old playbook can help the company cut into Google Inc.'s thus-far insurmountable lead in the search market. Microsoft plans to ramp up its efforts to encourage Web developers and other programmers to create mashups -- quickly assembled Web-based programs gluing together ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/15/microsoft-seeks-mashups-for-live-search/ "Mashup" has long been a term used by innovative disc jockeys who combine an old song with a new track having the same beat to create a wholly different dance experience. A software mashup is comprised of two or more content components from different sources but presented to the user ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/13/corporate-mashup-applications-improve-user-experiences/ The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/12/what-is-web-20/ One of the more interesting APIs added here recently comes from BT, British Telecom. It’s not so much a single API but a set of early beta APIs code-named Web21C, part of their larger £10 billion 21st century network initiative called 21CN, an IP-based, multi-service network. Functionality provided in this ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/12/bt-launches-apis-for-telephony-mashups/ A web mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or so called API. [Source: Wikipedia] The logic of a web mashup can be ... http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/03/12/the-definition-of-a-web-mashup/