Standards-compliant site that compares Amazon, Ebay, and Shopping.com. Uses a hint of AJAX on the search page for quick loading times.

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The history of computers, software, and information technology in a Google Gadget. Each day contains a historical reference to the people, inventions, and events that define the evolution of computers.

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Great eBay + Google maps mashup. Search for local listings by selecting distance from your Zip/Postcode. Just type in what your looking for and away you go. Click on the flags to see whats on eBay near you.

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Hab.la is a FREE service for chatting with visitors to your website using any jabber compatible IM client: iChat, adium, Meebo, Pidgin. Google Translate translates the conversations into the language of your choice, in real-time.
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Mapanui - a pocket map for your browser. Australia based.
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Adobe has updated Share, their service for document sharing and management, so that users can now convert uploaded documents into PDF and they also have exposed this functionality in the Share API. This is a useful enhancement that should broaden the utility of the service (we previously looked at the Adobe Share API in our [...]

Google just significantly raised the stakes in the platform-as-a-service market with tonight’s launch of Google App Engine, a scalable, fault-tolerant web application environment that lets developers run their own apps on Google’s infrastructure. Naturally the new platform leverages Google’s expertise in building web-scale services including Big Table-type storage.
While in many ways this service competes with [...]

It’s not often, or ever, that a video about web mashups hits number one and gets over a million views on YouTube. But that’s exactly what happened with the fun video “Just @#$% It!! What are they saying?”, produced by the team at Serena to promote their enterprise mashup tool suite. The video follows a [...]

As reported at TechCrunch, the popular Twitter client twhirl created by German developer Marco Kaiser has been acquired by video chat service Seesmic. Besides the Twitter API, it also uses the Pownce API and the Jaiku API to allow cross-posting messages to those services. It is a very popular and very useful client that [...]

Tumblr calls itself “the easiest way to share yourself” online. With Tumblr, you create “Tumblelogs,” which are, essentially, online scrapbooks. Tumblelogs can include photos, videos, audio, messages, quotes, links, and chat dialogs. Tumblr also now provides the Tumblr API, which lets you programmatically read and write Tumblr data. The API is REST-based, with XML and [...]

40 new APIs per month. That’s how many APIs we’ve seen added to our API directory at ProgrammableWeb in each of the first 3 months of 2008. 120 APIs in Q1. That’s a growth rate that’s 150% greater than a year ago. They run the gamut from APIs from small startups to big social networks [...]

Yesterday, WhitePages.com announced a new search API that gives developers access to a substantial database of 180 million people, which represents approximately 80% of US adult population and includes 25 million “at work listings”. There are many potential applications for this API. We’ve created a new API profile here and according to their developer documentation, [...]

It has been a busy stretch for Google APIs: besides the recently released new AJAX Translation API this month, Google also launched the Google Visualization API, a JavaScript API which lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display using a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a [...]

LyricWiki.org is a terrific, free archive of song lyrics. How large? At the moment it has over 669,000 content pages. It’s a broad and deep catalog. Search for Alanis Morissette and you’ll see that she released three albums prior to her famous “Jagged Little Pill” in 1995. With such a useful database it’s fortunate for [...]

The New Media Consortium (NMC), “an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies,” highlighted data mashups as an important emerging technology in its 2008 Horizon Report. The report estimates that it will take 2 to 3 years (PDF) for mashups to [...]

The new location-based service FindMe is a straightforward app that uses cell phone towers to broadcast your general whereabouts to Facebook friends, saving you from updating Facebook manually with places you frequently travel. In beta, FindMe installs on your cell phone and updates your Facebook status when it senses you’ve changed locations. For each new [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–MySpace might have gotten a stigma for its advertising and user spam, but the company is hoping to get a fresh start with its developer platform.

Jim Benedetto, vice president of technology for MySpace, discussed the company’s current developer strategy with a group of 250 social application developers, entrepreneurs, and members of the press [...]

The book’s opening line is: “Helen has just registered on Facebook.”

Sentence two, if it gets enough votes by Facebook users, would be: “Friends have been telling her for a long time to do this, but for some reason she had continually postponed this moment. Why? She could not answer this question exactly.”

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There is a lot of information out there. And it’s growing. Faster. It is difficult to get a clear grasp of the amount of information currently in existence and we are all at a primitive stage when it comes to handle, process, digest, evaluate and understand this growing ocean of information coming at us.
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This post was expanded at 10:49 a.m. PDT to add comment from the OpenSocial Foundation conference call.

It’s like the Justice League of social media: Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.’s MySpace.com announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote [...]

Extending Internet reach and accessibility while making it more resilient, and immune to possible controls and manipulations has been one of the major concerns addressed, and although some significant steps forward, at least in terms of awareness, have been made in this direction, bridging the digital divide and safeguarding Internet net neutrality has remained for [...]

As of today, the powerful Google Translate service that lets you translate between 13 different languages and 29 language pairs is now available as a handy JavaScript-based API. Given the breadth of the engine it’s built on, it already supports languages including Russian, Korean, Arabic, Italian, Greek, French and Spanish. It’s a simple but powerful [...]

If you know how to develop mashups then you may be in line to win some very big prizes. To get a sense of just how much money and how many prizes, take a look at the ProgrammableWeb Contest Guide and you’ll find that there have been more than 45 mashup contests thus far. Prizes [...]

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[Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Raymond Yee, who we are very happy to have joining us as a regular contributor here at ProgrammableWeb.]
As announced on the Official Google Blog and Inside Google Book Search, Google has just released a Google Book Search Book Viewability API. With this API, developers can now query Google [...]

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Song lyrics search engine

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Yahoo has just announced a concerted effort around their upcoming open search platform to push open web standards including microformats and semantic web formats like RDF and XFN. By marking-up their pages using simple standards like hCard, hCalendar, hAtom and XFN, web sites can tell the Yahoo search engine more semantic meaning about the content [...]