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Best New Mashups: Chumby and Facebook Voice Apps

By Ty Wenzel • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

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Telephony and voice APIs are one of the most active segments of the API and mashup world (our directory has 42 telephony-related APIs). For example, in the past week, two of the latest mashups in the directory use telephony APIs in innovative ways:

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The New York Times Rolls Its Own Map Mashup: Represent

By Ty Wenzel • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
New York Times Movie Reviews

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The New York Times made news earlier this year through its release of several APIs (our Campaign Finance API Profile and our Movie Reviews API Profile). There’s been promise of more APIs to come, and the latest prototype created by The New York Times gives a preview of what is to come.

Represent is [...]



Zentact Might Be the Best Social Networking Idea This Year

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Techie News

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With the rise of social networking, many of us have hundreds if not thousands of online contacts. But how many of them do we actually keep up with? Probably not many. That’s the problem Zentact attempts to solve through a new service that keeps track of all your contacts across email [...]



Facebook Announces fbFund Grant Winners

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Techie News

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Back in October Facebook announced the 25 winners of fbFund, each of which has received $25,000 to develop their application further. That was only one round of fbFund; now, 5 winners have been chosen, with each receiving additional $225,000.
fbFund is a 10 million dollar seed fund which is a little different than traditional seed [...]



Dapper MashupAds: Easy Contextual Display Ads for Any Site

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

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One of the many frustrations that mashup developers (and web developers in general) run into is trying to use contextual ads for sites with lots of dynamic content. By their very nature, mashups typically tap into data that constantly changes, making it difficult to use contextual ads that stay up-to-date with content.
Now it [...]



200 Music Mashups

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
MTV

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The world of music is not just where the phrase “mashup” originated, it is also one of the most popular types of web mashups. With over 40 music APIs to choose from, developers have created a wide range of music-related mashups and we now have over 200 music mashups in our directory.
If you look [...]



BooRah: An API for Restaurant Search and Ratings

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

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BooRah, the restaurant search service, has announced the release of the BooRah API. The API augments the existing BooRah syndication platform, which is currently used by newspapers and other web sites that have a local focus. Their API is a standards-based web services platform, that also provides enhanced mobile platform capabilities. On mobile platforms, [...]



1,000 Web APIs

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Featured, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

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Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory. This is a long way from the 32 APIs we started with back in the summer of 2005. Back then even the phrase “web mashup” was only a few months old.
And [...]



Japan’s iKnow Opens API for Cognitive Learning

By Ty Wenzel • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
Carego iKnow

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iKnow, a social learning site launched last month by Japanese company Cerego, has launched an API (our iKnow profile) to allow third parties to “add a little Learning and Linguistic magic to [their] applications, widgets and other mashups.” iKnow allows users to take virtual English and Japanese language lessons (other languages are promised for [...]



Convert Web Pages Content Into RSS Feeds: Web Page To RSS Converters – Sharewood Guide

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Resources, Trend Forcasting, Web Design
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How can you convert the contents of a web page into RSS? How do you generate a RSS feed for a website, search result page or news source that doesn’t have one? Can you do this without spending any money and without having any technical HTML skill?

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In this new Sharewood Guide [...]



Visual Communication And Video Publishing – Selected Tools And Web Services – Sharewood Guide Oct 12 08

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Resources, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups, Web Design
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Need to convert your videos between major video file formats, create web-based charts, as well as editing or adding effects to your existing pictures?

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All this and more in this roundup of new cool visual communication and video publishing tools I have personally selected for you. This week:

ActivePixels: Edit your images [...]



Is Web 2.0 Really Democratic?

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Trend Forcasting, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
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Web 2.0 has revolutionized the panorama of the information society: users have become information producers and the new web platforms have become relationship venues where new knowledge and ideas emerge. Also the new tools of social networking, social tagging, wikis and blogs enable new forms of social interaction, participation and cooperation. But…

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Best News Mashups Announced in Daylife Challenge

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Events, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

Daylife has announced the winners of the 2008 DayPI Developer Challenge. Their DayPI is a unique API for building news-based applications. We wrote about the DayPI Developer Challenge last month. The challenge offered a US $3,500 first prize and two US $750 runner-up prizes.
First prize was awarded to the NewsLine mashup, by Dipity. This winning [...]



NPR Wants Suggestions for Their Next API Version

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

Last month we welcomed the launch of the NPR API from National Public Radio (NPR), an internationally acclaimed media production and distribution non-profit best known for a wide array of non-commercial radio programs.

Since its initial release, NPR has highlighted several new widgets and mashups developed with its API (our NPR API profile). And now [...]



Web 2.0 Bootcamp Commences in London

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Events, Techie News, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

For the very first time in the UK, the Web 2.0 University is running a one day Executive Bootcamp on Tuesday 30th September in London.
Designed by Dion Hinchcliffe & O’Reilly Media, the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp is a one day event for a management and executive audience to gain a thorough brefing on the state [...]



Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media: An Opinionated Digest by George Siemens – July 12 08

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Trend Forcasting, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups, Web Design
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If you look at the fast changing media and at new emerging technologies you may be endlessly enchanted by the new ideas, capabilities and traits that each one integrates. At the same time, the more you closely follow such change without taking critical and analytical distance from it the more you risk of never being [...]



RealMapz | Mashup: Central Californal Real Estate

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
RealMapz

A real estate mashup featuring homes on the California central coast.
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VoiceMap | Mashup: Voice Recording tied to Location Plus Twitter

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
VoiceMap

WHERE contest winner. Voice notes tied to a location. Record private or public location voice notes on your cell phone then listen to them on the web or publish them on Twitter.
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Giverny France Hotels | A Hotel Search MashUP

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
Giverny France Hotels

Hotel locations around the Monet garden in Giverny, France.
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Best Cities for Singles | A web 2.0 mashup

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
Best Cities for Singles

Rankings of the best cities for singles in the United States.
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Goosh | Dos shell meets Google Search – a MashUp

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
Goosh

Google search meets DOS shell, in a browser. If you miss command lines, then this app is for you. Feel right at home searching the Web from a shell prompt.
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25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Resources, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups, Web Design

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.
read the whole article here – It’s great!

PHOTOSHOP (CS CS2 CS3 & [...]



Google’s New Maps API for Flash

By Ty Wenzel • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
Google Maps Flash

Last week, Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash, the latest extension of their extremely popular Google Maps API. As they describe:
This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a [...]



Google Health API Released

By Ty Wenzel • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

Somewhat lost in the buzz of the announcement of Google Health, is the fact that Google’s also just launched the Health Data API. As they describe, the new GData API provides a variety of health-related functionality:
The Google Health data API allows client applications to view and update Health content in the form of Google Data [...]



Open Library API: Cataloging 13 Million Books

By Ty Wenzel • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

The Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive , whose long-term goal is to present “one web page for every book ever published.” A recent release of the Open Library brought the total number of book records to over 13.4 million, including over 234,000 records with full-text for [...]



Freebies: Web 2.0 STAR Graphics

By Ty Wenzel • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Freebies, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups, Web Design

You can use these buttons freely for personal or commercial use. A link back to http://www.Designshrine.net is not necessary but deeply appreciated.
Click below to open the full-size.

Enjoy!

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Freebies: Soft Web 2.0 Buttons

By Ty Wenzel • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Freebies, General, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups, Web Design

You can use these buttons freely for personal or commercial use. A link back to http://www.Designshrine.net is not necessary but deeply appreciated.
You can download the actual sized images (800×600) clicking HERE .

Enjoy!

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New YouTube API Means YouTube Anywhere

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: Techie News, Web 2.0 | API | Mashups

The most popular video API is about to become more popular. As just announced by Googe’s Jim Patterson on the YouTube blog, YouTube Everywhere, the YouTube API has just been upgraded with some very powerful new features. So much so that, as Jim describes, “It has become an open, general purpose, video services platform, available [...]



Mashup Camp Set Free

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: Web 2.0 | API | Mashups
Mashup Camp 6

Given the number of very interesting topics to discuss in this space it’s timely that Mashup Camp, now in it’s sixth run, is just around the corner in two weeks. And once again it’s free. Here are the details:

When: March 17-20th
Where: Mountain View, CA, at the Computer History Museum where the first camp took place [...]



Web 2.0 Badges Free

By Ty Wenzel • Oct 20th, 2007 • Category: Design & Graphics, Freebies, Web Design
free web 2.0 badges

I guess I have a lot of time on my hands (not), so I put out some web 2.0 graphics for anyone to download and use. Would love a link back to DesignShrine.net , but that’s optional.

You can download the actual sized images (800×600) clicking HERE .
There’s other Web 2.0 Free grapics if you [...]



Free Web 2.0 Ribbons

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 15th, 2007 • Category: Design & Graphics, Freebies, Web Design
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Got a Cause? We’ve got a ribbon for you! Here are some more web 2.0 graphics for anyone to download and use free. These are for causes that have ribbons as their statement. Would love a link back to DesignShrine.net, but that’s optional.

You can download the actual sized images (800×600) clicking [...]



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