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Monday, April 7th, 2008
According to ReadWrite Web, Penguin Books is using new social media tools to distribute six of its titles in a new We Tell Stories campaign. The British publisher is using a LiveJournal blog, Twitter, and Google Maps to post its stories in a serialized format over a weeklong period for each story.
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Ever wonder what exactly APIs are all about? Take a look under the hood of Web 2.0 with The Other Librarian who details the who, what, why, and how of Application Program Interfaces. Ryan Deschamps spells out key acronyms and provides a 10 step program for using an API in his APIs: Who? What? Why? How?.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A new mashup has been announced on Programmable Web which involves a non-profit service that enables you to select books in the public domain from websites such as Google Books and the Internet Archive and have them printed via Lulu.com, the print-on demand service. The mashup combines APIs from both LuLu and the Internet Archive and appears to be a straightforward way to get printed editions of over 200,000 public domain books from Internet Archive and 1.5 million from Google Books.
Monday, February 11th, 2008
The New York Times has coverage of the recently released Microsoft Popfly, a mashup creator for the non-programmer. Similar to Yahoo! Pipes and Google Mashup Editor tools, Popfly has gained over 100,000 users and 50,000 mashups.
“The Popfly programmers, however, have gone a step further in an effort to design a tool that is intended for a generation of Web users who are familiar with the Internet but are not skilled programmers.
A user might take Popfly and mash up his list of Amazon book recommendations with the Seattle Library book catalog on the Web, he said, and receive a notification when the waiting list for a particular book was down to zero.”
via Social Media
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
The Google Maps Mania blog has put together a list of 100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups. Here are few standouts: