mcharper's reblog

O'Reilly Radar > Freebase Will Prove Addictive

Abstraction layer to hide details of specific map provider in your Javascript code (Via <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us hotlist</a>).

Mashery: Power Your API

A scalable service to allow organisations to track usage of their APIs as well as build a communities around them. Uses Amazon infrastructure services underneath. (Via <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us hotlist</a>).

Amazon EC2 Service

Amazon now commoditizing computing power as a web service you can use at will (Via <a href="http://del.icio.us/popular">delicious</a>).

XMLArmyKnife

Very interesting - A project by Leigh Dodds to provide XSLT and SPARQL as web services using REST, among other things. (Via <a href="http://www.georss.org/blog/">GeoRSS blog</a>).

WikiMapia = Wiki + Google maps

Interesting mashup of Google Maps with a Wiki with the modest ambition of "describing the whole of Planet Earth" (Via <a href="http://del.icio.us/popular">del.icio.us</a>)

Geobloggers service withdrawn

Now what do we do?

BBC Programmes API

BBC does it again - this time an API to access their schedules. (Via <a href="http://www.programmableweb.com">programmable web</a>)

BBC Programme Catalogue

BBC's years of patient archiving "discovered". And for semantic web enthusiasts, every entry is available as RDF! Thanks to Mike Boam for spotting this.

Ajaxian " S3 Javascript Bindings

Acres of storage space available right from your browser

EarthTools

Find places, latitude/longitude, sunrise/sunset, elevation, local time and time zones. Has REST interface returning XML, some qualifications regarding usage. Thanks to Peter Green for this.

try ruby! (in your browser)

Excellent interactive tutorial on Ruby

Programmable Web: The Web As Platform

Excellent source of information about APIs available for developers to play with, and who's mashing what with what

O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0

The definitive essay on Web 2.0

Google Maps API Basic Tutorial

Excellent tutorial to complement the Google API documentation