Mashups

Mashups are applications which make use of data from more than one location or context by integrating data from external databases or applications and exposing the user to richer data combinations in one central presentation.

ProgrammableWeb

ProgrammableWeb is the de facto leader in providing information, documentation, supplemental links and tracking usage (mashups) of Web Services and APIs.

• ProgrammableWeb - Mashup Matrix: http://www.programmableweb.com/matrix
• ProgrammableWeb - Most Popular APIs: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?sort=mashups

EXAMPLES

YouTube Mashups

Excellent Mashups by Satoru Yano

• YouTube TV: http://tv.youtubech.com/
• Japanese YouTube Web Player Mashup: http://fplayer.youtubech.com/index.pl?q=brittany
• YouTube Subtitle Inserter: http://subtitle.in/

• YouTube API class (the original YouTube class from PHPclasses, used by many to embed YouTube videos in other pages, create thumbnails and much more): http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3944.html
• phpTube can download and upload using the YouTube Developers API: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3966.html
• Video Portal Player (can be used to easily mash YouTube videos with other data): http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3911.html
• myYouTube (latest external YouTube player example from PHPclasses): http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4363.html
• Top YouTube Videos (yet another YouTube mashup): http://www.topyoutubevideos.com/

Yahoo! Video Mashup

• Yahoo! Video Search Web Services, API Home Page: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/video/V1/videoSearch.html

Blinkx Mashup

• BC$ Blinkx: http://bcmoney-mobiletv.com/metaweb/blinkx/

Truveo Mashup

• BC$ Truveo: http://bcmoney-mobiletv.com/metaweb/truveo/

Freebase Mashup

• FMDB - Freebase Movie DataBase (IMDB style): http://fmdb.freebaseapps.com/
• FreeSpin - Venture Capital data from Freebase: http://kidbombay.com/clients/freebase/freeSpin/#id=/en/metaweb

Twitter Mashup

• Twittervision is a web mashup combining Twitter with Google Maps to create a real time display of tweets across a map: http://beta.twittervision.com/
• Tweetburner allows you to track the website links you post on Twitter and find out how many times people clicked on the link: http://tweetburner.com/
• Twubble -- Helps you find friends with similar tastes by analyzing your posts and current followers: http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/

Others

• HousingMaps -- (Craig's List real estate classifieds + GoogleMaps): http://www.housingmaps.com/ THE ORIGINAL MASHUP!?!
• MapCrow - Driving Distance Calculator: http://www.mapcrow.info
• Pubwalk (merges CitySearch & Google Maps; Yahoo Maps for mobile & consolidated directions, only major map provider offering this combo; Dodgeball was integrated into mobile via Dodgeball SMS links, now allow Email to Phone only): http://pubwalk.com/
• DealsCloud -- FatWallet API + SlickDeals API (building a virtual yard sale or bazaar, in Tag Cloud form): http://dealscloud.com/
• GolfBonk (golf course information compiled from numerous golf resources, directories, and course websites as well as the US Geological Names database, Weather infomation comes primarily from the National Weather Service Digital forecast database, Geo-coding done via USGS, Google and Yahoo Maps): http://golfbonk.com
• Follow The Oil Money: http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php?type=congress

Tools

Mashup Server

• Mashup Server: http://wso2.org/projects/mashup
• Invoking Web Services from a Mashup : http://wso2.org/library/tutorials/invoking-web-services-mashup
• How to Embed an Axis2 based Web Service in your Webapp? : http://wso2.org/library/90
• WSO2 Mashup Server Screencast: "Hello, World!" : http://wso2.org/library/presentations/wso2-mashup-server-screencast-hello-world
• WSO2 Mashup Server Screencast Series: #2 Web Scraping : http://wso2.org/library/presentations/wso2-mashup-server-screencast-series-2-web-scraping
• WSO2 Mashup Server Screencast #3: Service Composition: http://wso2.org/library/presentations/wso2-mashup-server-screencast-3-service-composition

Resources

• Google - Maps API: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
• YouTube - Video API: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/
• Flickr - Image API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
• Last.FM - Music API: http://last.fm/api
• Twitter - Status API: http://dev.twitter.com
• Facebook - Friend API: http://developers.facebook.com/
• Amazon Web Services - Product API: http://aws.amazon.com
• Wikipedia - Encyclopedia API: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
• Yahoo! - Web/Search APIs: http://developer.yahoo.com
• Google - Web/Search APIs: http://code.google.com/apis/
• Microsoft Bing - Web/Search APIs: http://www.bing.com/developers DOCS
• AOL - Web/Search APIs: http://code.google.com/apis/
• SalesForce - ERP API: http://developer.force.com/ DOCS
• XE - Currency Feed: http://www.xe.com/dfs/
• WordReference - Tranlsation API: http://www.wordreference.com/docs/api.aspx
• Chalk - Sports API: http://www.getchalk.com/solutions/solutions-stats.php
• QuoteMedia - Stocks API: http://www.quotemedia.com/content_solutions/data_services/

Tutorials

• How To Make Your Own Web Mashup: http://www.programmableweb.com/howto
• Mashups -- The new breed of Web app: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-mashups/index.html

External Links

• Bing & Google: http://www.bingandgoogle.com/
• Mooshup: http://mooshup.com
• Top Mashups (2005): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_mashups.php
• What is a Mashup?: http://webtrends.about.com/od/webmashups/a/what-is-mashup.htm
• Pro Web Mashups (E-BOOK): http://mashupguide.net/1.0/html/
• 5 Years Ago Today the Web Mashup Was Born: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/5-years-ago-today-web-mashup-was-born/2010/04/08
• The Emerging Technical And Business Models Of Web 2.0: http://www.slideshare.net/dhinchcliffe/reto-20-webcast-the-emerging-technical-and-business-models-of-web-20-2676679/

See Also

Scraping | Web Service | API | XML | JSON | HTML | xHTML | Metadata | Linked Data | RDF | OWL