mashups
10 result(s) displayed (21 - 30 of 46):
Capitol Words: What Your Congress Person Really Talks About
The Sunlight Foundation's mashup site Capitol Words relaunched this week and now offers a very handy way to see what keywords are being used in the US Congress in general and by particular congress members. If you pay only passing attention to politics, Capitol Words is a great way to familiarize yourself with politicians in a hurry. It's a mashup of several different ways to search the Congressional Record and it's fun to use.
TheLaughButton: Like Hype Machine for Stand Up Comedy
Taylor McKnight has been called a "serial mashup developer" and he's involved in some of the coolest mashup sites we've seen in recent years. Three years ago he won the grand prize at the first ever MashupCamp for his site PodBop ("We podcast bands coming to your town"). Then he came on board at one of the most popular little music sites on the web, Hype Machine. He's also working in a little startup called Sched.org, a service that started by offering an unofficial calendar for the SXSW festival and now pays the bills building custom social schedules for other events.
Today Taylor McKnight launched a new site that he's been working on since Spring, and he says it's like Hype Machine for standup comedy.
Keyboardr: More Fun Than Google Wiki?
Are you a fan of keyboard shortcuts? Do you j and k your way through Google Reader? Or Ctrl + Enter (Cmd + Return) to add the "www" and the ".com" when you're browsing the web in Firefox? If ditching the mouse is your definition of efficiency, then you're going to love this new Google Search Mashup called keyboardr.
Decho To Offer API Access to All Your Life's Data
When it comes to storing personal digital data in the cloud and serving it up in interesting ways - we're in the very early days of a brand new paradigm.
Today popular online storage company Mozy announced that it has been merged by the company that acquired it with another acquisition called Pi (Personal Information) - into a new forthcoming service called Decho (your digital echo). Pi was founded by Paul Maritz, who is now the CEO of virtualization powerhouse VMWare. What do you get when you bring these kinds of stars together into one service? Only a few clues are available so far, but we're excited to see what Decho becomes.
Dapper MashupAds: A New Lease on Life for One of the Coolest Tools on the Web
When I first discovered RSS creation tool Dapper.net two years ago I knew it was exciting, but I couldn't figure out how to use it. I was surprised to find people talking about it at tech events who felt the same way. This was a tool that had huge potential but also stood on shaky ground in terms of usability, legal impact and thus long term viability as a business.
Two years later Dapper has become a service I depend on, it's enabled me to do a significant portion of my work as a blogger and a consultant in ways that nothing else can. Today the company rolled out a new service that will help its own bottom line. Web 2.0 is fast becoming a story of awesome tools that didn't find a large number of users and had to slink off into the shadows of advertising sales - reduced to polluting social networks and young minds with insipid pop-culture content that really ought not even exist. Thankfully, that's not the case with the newly launched Dapper MashupAds.
First New York Times API is Live - Here's Why it Matters
The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open - All the code that's fit to printf(). First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a movie review API. Also available is a database management program initially developed for internal use at the NY Times.
The Times quietly announced in May that it would soon be publishing APIs, which are means by which outside developers can access NY Times data for use in other applications, interfaces and mashups. We believe that steps like this are going to prove key if big media is to thrive in the future.
It's Official: Mashup Privacy Protocol OAuth Is Fair Game
OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight.
All parties involved in building the spec have signed a covenant of non-assertion, meaning that OAuth can now be safely implemented anywhere without concern about Intellectual Property lawsuits. If you think this is too geeky for you - try out the live demo embedded below.
Daylife API Challenge is a Flop, Shows That Mashups Are Hard
We get excited around here whenever a new application offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for 3rd parties to develop against. Oh, the possibilities! Sometimes, though, it just doesn't pan out and our dreams are dashed against the craggy rocks of reality. Mashups are hard and just because you've got some cool data and good hooks for developers to pull from doesn't mean anyone's going to build anything worth using on your API.
eMusic Goes Web 2.0: Adds Content from Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia
Today, eMusic launched a major redesign of its site. The new design not only looks a lot fresher, but eMusic now also draws in information from Wikipedia, videos from YouTube, and photos from Flickr. EMusic is the second-largest online music retailer after iTunes, but it often doesn't quite get the coverage newer music sites like Pandora or Last.fm get.
Could a Government Mashup Contest Top McCain's Battery Project?
Last month US Presidential hopeful John McCain announced an ambitious new proposal that would award a $300 million prize to the inventor of a better battery for powering automobiles. It is a laudable idea and one that could tackle some of the biggest problems the world faces - but it's a proposal grounded in last-century thinking none the less.
Movable Type search results powered by Fast Search
