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Using Mashups to Create a More Efficient Government?

InternetNews.com’s Kenneth Corbin recently wrote about the National Association of State CIOs conference, where White House science and technology adviser Beth Noveck spoke to attendees about opening up government processes to collaboration in an open ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  14 May 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Google Inc.

See the Price of That House You’re Driving by with Zillow on iPhone

Zillow has released an application for iPhone users that builds on their Zillow API, the Microsoft Virtual Earth API and the iPhone’s GPS capabilities. The Zillow iPhone app detects your location and shows data about nearby homes, including market ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  John Cook

The New York Times Enhances Congress API

The New York Times’ (NYT) list of web services includes some impressive APIs that make it easier to access and track information about a range of interests, including best selling books, real estate, people, articles, and the United States Government. ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  4 May 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company

Google AdSense API Now Lets Blogger Users Make More Money

It only seems right that people blogging via Blogger would be able to take advantage of AdSense features for their blogs - both are Google products, after all. Now they can. Google has used their AdSense API to provide more built-in monetization ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  1 May 2009
Related Topics: AdSense,  Google Inc.

Track the Swine Flu With These Google and Twitter Mashups

The globe is abuzz with talk about a possible Swine Flu pandemic, and mashups are helping people who want to track the progress of the disease. Here are some these brand new mashups built using both the Google Maps API and the Twitter API. ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  29 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Developers Go for Green ($ and Earth) with Gnomedex and Live Search

Gnomedex, the annual tech conference in Seattle hosted by Chris Pirillo, and Microsoft Live Search, are teaming up to sponsor a developer’s contest dubbed “Will Code for Green” where judges will accept mashup entries in two categories: Economy and ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  24 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Chris Pirillo

68% of All PollDaddy Polls Created via Their API

PollDaddy, one of the most popular online poll and survey creation services, recently opened their new API to the public. The basic PollDaddy service provides free accounts for creating polls and surveys, or a Pro upgrade that eliminates sponsored ...

From TINA GASPERSON, Programmable Web,  21 Apr 2009

Four simple but essential WordPress plugins for site administrators

As the name suggests, reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25 is designed for WordPress 2.5. It adds a column to all Manage screens that shows the numeric ID assigned by WordPress whenever an item, such as a post, page, category, link, or user, is created. Previous ...

From TINA GASPERSON, LXer,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Digg

K12Linux founders hand off project to the Fedora community

Paul Nelson and Eric Harrison met online when Nelson, a classroom teacher and technology director at a small school in Portland's Riverdale School District, went looking for Linux help. "We were doing everything on the back end with Linux, but I was ...

From TINA GASPERSON, LXer,  11 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Red Hat, Inc.,  Mark Shuttleworth

Firefox + Greasemonkey Turbocharge E-Commerce Site--From The Client Side

Etsy.com is a large, successful ecommerce operation for sellers of handmade and vintage goods. Sellers set up a shop on Etsy's servers without having to know any Web design or programming, and Etsy charges a small fee to list and sell items. Etsy's ...

From TINA GASPERSON, LXer,  10 Dec 2008
Related Topics: BBC

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