Mashup
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What Happened to Enterprise Mashups?
Programmable Web &bull Sep 1, 2010
Once touted as the future of business intelligence, providing quick and easy access to disparate information in one place, Enterprise Mashups, at least as a term, appear to have fallen out of favor. The topic was once written up in… Full Story »
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Face Detection API: Face Detection Made Simple
Programmable Web &bull Sep 1, 2010
If you are building an image sharing service or a social network mashup, it's likely that you will want to incorporate face-tagging in your images. Maybe you'd like to go a step further and automatically detect faces in an image,… Full Story »
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Arcade Fire + HTML5 + Google Chrome + Google Maps and Google Street View = The Wilderness Downtown Mashup
D'Technology Weblog &bull Aug 30, 2010
Google launched a musical experience called "The Wilderness Downtown," an interactive HTML5 music experience made specifically for the browser. It's created by Chris Milk with band Arcade Fire and Google. "The Wilderness Downtown" is set to Arcade Fire's new song… Full Story »
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53 APIs Used in 7 Days: Flickr, Twitter and Foursquare
Programmable Web &bull Aug 28, 2010
This past week 43 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 53 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include CyberSource Simple , FatSecret , Google Fusion Tables and… Full Story »
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How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech
Mashable &bull Aug 27, 2010
Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology. The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality. One of Sunlight Labs' early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum, which highlights virtual reconstructions of Satricum and the Forum Romanum. But while there are early leaders, non-profits generally lag behind in market experimentation. Several technical non-profits are… Full Story »
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Mashup Mines Twitter Movie Reviews, Shares Results
Programmable Web &bull Aug 27, 2010
The humongous amount of data that Twitter generates daily, is spawning a new breed of company that is analyzing the data and providing value-added services on it. While the data mining and intelligence applications are still in their infancy, there… Full Story »
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Real-time News Reader Shows Off Push-to-Browser
Programmable Web &bull Aug 26, 2010
With the real-time web being claimed by some to be one of the core components of Web 3.0 it's unsurprising that we are seeing more real-time APIs and real-time mashups being developed. One mashup has just been created using Kwwika… Full Story »
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No API? Use ScraperWiki to Add One
Programmable Web &bull Aug 24, 2010
One of the major purposes of a Web API is to expose a structured content that you can use in your own app, create some great mashup and share it with your friends. But what do you do if a popular app does not expose… Full Story »
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YC-Funded Koduco Is Bringing Old-School Fun To Multiplayer iPad Games
TechCrunch Web 2.0 &bull Aug 23, 2010
Look at the multitude of games available on the iPad, and you'll find a similar theme across many of them: they're bigger versions of their iPhone counterparts. They're touchscreen enabled, sport colorful graphics, and are plenty fun - but they often fail to take advantage of the fact… Full Story »
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The "Bed Intruder Song" From Auto-Tune The News Cracks Billboard's Hot 100
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Aug 20, 2010
Some awesome remixing and use of auto-tune by The Gregory Brothers has landed them a spot on Billboard's "Hot 100" chart (via Mashable) . According to Billboard, the Hot 100 ranks "the week's most popular songs across all genres, ranked… Full Story »
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Real World Mashup Connects Bike to iPhone, Location
Programmable Web &bull Aug 18, 2010
A new bicycle wheel prototype is connecting the non-technical, everyday world to the Web. The Copenhagen Wheel attaches to an ordinary bike and helps its owner collect fitness and location data. From an iPhone, the rider can also see traffic… Full Story »
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Use APIs to Explore Your Town
Programmable Web &bull Aug 17, 2010
APIs have certainly enriched our lives. Thanks to some clever mashups, we are able to share and connect with nearly everyone and everything all over the planet. But what about the world right around you? How can APIs make your… Full Story »
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15 APIs Used in 7 Days: Facebook, Foursquare, Twilio and Twitter
Programmable Web &bull Aug 14, 2010
This past week 22 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 15 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Grooveshark, Infochimps and Twitter Grader. The most often used… Full Story »
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Record Your Phone Calls With MyPhoneTap
Programmable Web &bull Aug 13, 2010
In an ever-connected age, there's still something solid about the telephone. Dial a number and you can be talking voice-to-voice in seconds, anywhere in the world. There's a new mashup that builds on top of that old network to record… Full Story »
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Engaging Gen Y with Govt 2.0
ZDNet Asia &bull Aug 12, 2010
Opening up public data online through government-as-a-platform can create public value, says author who adds that the younger generation wants to be engaged in governance. Governments should break the old top-down governance model and seek to engage citizens by opening up data for citizens to create public value, said an author who… Full Story »
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Knowledge is a mashup
Vanessa Fox. Nude. &bull Aug 10, 2010President Obama's Open Government directive has given us access to huge data sets through avenues such as data.gov. But we have a lot more assets as a country than just digital 0s and 1s in CSV files. We also have… Full Story »
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"Knowledge is a mashup"
O'Reilly Radar &bull Aug 10, 2010
These days, we hear a lot about open data, open government, and Gov 2.0. President Obama's Open Government directive has given us access to huge data sets through avenues such as data.gov. But we have a lot more assets as a country than just digital 0s and 1s in CSV files. We also have artifacts and science and history and experts. Can open government apply to those assets as well? If the Smithsonian Commons project is any indication, the answer is yes. I talked to Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian about the project.… Full Story »
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Digg API Version 2 Coming Soon
Programmable Web &bull Aug 9, 2010
Social sharing site Digg is preparing a version upgrade to its API. Along with its flagship site's major redesign, which is not yet public, Digg will launch v2 of its developer platform. However, there are new digs for Digg developers… Full Story »
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5000 Mashups
Programmable Web &bull Aug 9, 2010
Last week our mashups directory passed a new milestone, number 5000. Maps are still by far the number one type of mashup, but by slightly less than the snapshots of our previous milestones, as the directory has grown to include… Full Story »
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New Job Titles Show APIs Moving Mainstream
Programmable Web &bull Aug 5, 2010
Just about every web developer must now be comfortable at least consuming APIs, if not creating them. This trend now shows itself in job titles including "API" and "mashup," and more often in the requirements and experience section of job… Full Story »
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