Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You “What’s Here” for Any Point on a Map… Almost.
Attention media companies – please make sure to encode geo locations with your new stories. Everyone in the world would like to mash them up for you.
Thank you.
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Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You "What's Here" for Any Point on a Map… Almost
Posted by tom.altman on June 22nd, 2009
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Google Reader API
Posted by tom.altman on January 5th, 2009
Say what? I can only think of a million ideas for this…heck, I’m not so sure you couldn’t build a CMS out of this concept. (http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/12/google-reader-api.html)
Google Reader is an online feed aggregator with heavy use of JavaScript and pretty quick loading of the latest feed data from around the web. Google’s AJAX front-end styles back-end data published in the Atom syndication format. The data technologies powering Google Reader can easily be used and extended by third-party feed aggregators for use in their own applications. I will walk you through the (previously) undocumented Google Reader API.
This could be an interesting development…now I just need more time.
One “home” for contacts?
Posted by tom.altman on March 7th, 2008
Google has an API (Application Program Interface – An interface for letting a program/website communicate with another program/website) available in which programmers can leverage people’s Gmail/Google contacts from other applications, called the Google Contacts API.
What does this mean? Many things really, this type of thing opens up a whole world of communication between programs and devices.
For example – Outlook could be made to sync up with Gmail’s contacts and Gmail’s contacts could be used and referenced in Facebook – and most importantly, all of these would synchronize when a change was made in one of them. (This would be based on a program being written to allow the communications – but it is now possible.)
The Google Contacts Data API allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds. Your client application can request a list of a user’s contacts, edit or delete content in an existing contact, and query the content in an existing contact.
How cool would it be to have this type of contact synchronization?
Facebook – the Operating System?
Posted by tom.altman on July 24th, 2007
UPDATE: I found this article: 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally – I’m not sure I totally agree with using Facebook professionally, but some of the same things apply to LinkedIn.
Published: 7/23/2007 6:57 AM
Wow – when Facebook opened up its API’s (special channels into their system which allows others to leverage their software) to the world, they took it up a notch.
I was listening to a podcast last week where a college student said many of his classmates do not even like to use email anymore – they log onto Facebook and send messages to each other from within the system. WOW – that is powerful.
Some have went as far to say “The Facebook Platform reminds many of us of Windows; and people are calling it “the social operating system” on which you can develop your Internet apps.” If this is true – we may have reached a new bar for social applications.
