Mashups News & Articles

Your website is dead. But your content lives in other formats, across other devices. What is currently available is only the beginning -- the world is changing, and as a result the way we interact with information is changing. In the session, Managing New Kinds of Content Mash-ups, Stefan Schinkel of Hippo walked us through the endless possibilities that content engagement afford us.

Most of you know Kapow Software (news, site) as a provider of data integration and content migration solutions. And that's exactly what they do. But yesterday the vendor announced a new version of their data integration platform. One they say will change the way to you think about content integration. One that could make your next project a lot easier.

Sometimes it’s comforting to realize that you’re not the only industry struggling to manage and integrate social media. From Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, everyone is still trying to evolve their presence and define their strategies so they can embrace all that social media can offer.

Things have changed a lot for eXo (news, site) since we first covered the open source enterprise CMS vendor back in March of 2009.  With a steady stream of updates and a new partnership with JBoss, it was only a matter of time before the company added some social features to their list of capabilities.

This week the Webby Award Nominees were announced. Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards honor excellence on the Internet.

MindTouch (news, site) sees itself as the open source alternative to SharePoint. Its newest venture provides organizations with an enterprise collaboration platform in the cloud.

Best known for content management system migration technologies, Kapow Technologies (news, site) also does web data services and feeds. In a recently announced partnership with StrikeIron, the vendor released Kapow Web Data Services v7.0, focusing on web data access for small and medium sized businesses.

Stefan Andreasen, Kapow CTO and founder, gave us a little tour around the new offering. Let's have a look.

The announcement that Kapow Technologies (news, site) has just put the latest version of its Web Data Server -- better known as its  Mashup Server -- on general release should be of interest to anyone who is looking at their Web 2.0 apps for cost savings.

While a lot of companies claim a lot of things about their products, Kapow Technologies' financial success and growth over the past two years has backed up those claims principally as a result of some very serious software.

With the v7.0 release Mashup Server boasts enhanced scalability and performance -- and there are few other interesting bonuses as well.

Back in October, the New York Times created and released a Campaign Finance API (Application Programming Interface). Designed to let users analyze and re-use some of the data the NYT had been looking at while reporting on the presidential campaign, the API offered overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. They also launched a movie API, which allows users to search New York Times movie reviews by keyword and get lists of NYT Critics' Picks.

Now the Times has released a new API offering every article the paper has written since 1981 -- 2.8 million articles.

As lifestreaming continues to grow in popularity, so do the ways in which it’s presented. Introducing one of the first players to take the sentimental route: thisMoment.

Still in its beta testing phase, thisMoment isn’t marketed as a lifestream, a micro-blogging service or a social network, even though it could easily be used for any of those things. No, thisMoment is presented as something a little closer to the heart. Specifically, “A place for saving and sharing the moments of your life.” 

Here’s an interesting conference happening on December 11, 2008 in Mountain View, California. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are joining forces to bring you a conference all about creating Add-ons for the browser.

At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analysts presented their insights into the top 10 technologies and trends to rule the world in 2009.

With emphasis on virtualization, organizations should also pay close attention to cloud computing, green IT, Business Intelligence (BI) and social software — among other strategic trends.

ECube Systems, a company that modernizes legacy systems, has joined the DreamFace Certified Partners Program. The partnership will allow ECube to tap into DreamFace’s open source framework to deliver Enterprise 2.0 technology to organizations. We are talking the whole nine yards of the 2.0 magic: mashups, widgets, data apps and dashboards.

Ajax is a popular approach to developing applications and mashups. But with different implementation approaches, it makes it hard to create an application or widget that works consistently across browsers and in mashups. Until now…

The OpenAjax Alliance has announced a new draft specification that will facilitate interoperability across IDEs and make widgets more interoperable in mashups.

Glam Media has announced the Glam Apps Platform, a new, open-source application-maker that is cross-platform and can be monetized with embedded advertizing.

This extremely cunning model enables the building of apps that can be priced or monetized with advertising from multiple sources. The Platform is designed (presumably) for mashing content from the Glam Network, but as it’s open source, this is great news for everyone. In any case, the Glam Network is huge. Still in private Beta, you can apply for an invite to the developers resource at the link below.