7 Cool "Mashup" Websites – What Are Mashup Websites?

Here I show you some examples of mashup websites, they are great because they combine more than 1 API (Application Programming Interface) to make a unique tool. This is part of web 2.0 World National Anthems: API: Google Maps + YouTube + Google Video anthemsonmap.googlepages.com MapYourBuddies: API: Facebook + Google Maps + Amazon people.emich.edu Twittervision 3D: API: Poly9 FreeEarth + Twitter: twittervision.com CloudMe: API: Flicker + Yahoo My Web Search + YouTube www.cloudme.com TuneGlue: API: Amazon eCommerce + Last.fm audiomap.tuneglue.net vDiddy: API: Grouper Video + Yahoo Video Search + YouTube www.vdiddy.com Yahoo vs Google: API: Google Search + Yahoo Search www.langreiter.com Find Your own: www.programmableweb.com

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15 000 developers and much more applications for Windows Phone 7

The software concern Microsoft has managed since the launch of Windows Phone 7 to win a large number of application developers for the platform.

Only since the beginning of November so far as such have registered about 3000 new programmers, the company said.So now the new mobile applications based on Microsoft software employing 15 000 people.

Accordingly, the rapidly increasing number of applications offered by the company for mobile devices with its operating system.While at the beginning of sales the number was still three-digit, now users can choose from almost 3000 applications.

However, it will take some time until the platform is able to equalize in this respect with the existing far-long competition.Available to the user’s operating system Google Android are currently around 100 000 different applications and in the Apple AppStore their numbers even approaching 300,000.

Satellite Images Can See That Everyone Shops More On Black Friday

Do you know what’s a good way to know if people are shopping? By checking the parking lots. And according to satellite images from Remote Sensing Metrics, people have been shopping a lot more this year than years past.

Their data, which use satellite images of parking lots to determine parking lot capacity, shows that 35% of shopping mall parking spaces have been filled this year compared to the 31-32% of the previous two years. And this past Saturday, the last weekend before Black Friday, parking lots were 42.3% filled, compared with 36.5% in 2009 and 30.6% in 2008.

Which means it should all be leading up to the craziest Black Friday in years. Did anyone notice a difference?

Gizmodo.com