Mashup Guide

AIM announces winners of the Open AIM Developer Challenge. Some coverage:

• AOL Announces Open AIM Dev Contest Winners - ReadWriteWeb
• AOL gives out $100,000 in prizes to AIM plugin coders - Download Squad

OUseful Info: An OpenLibrary API Handshake With Yahoo Pipes cf my PW post (Open Library API: Cataloging 13 Million Books)

BTW, I just created a record in OpenLibrary for Pro Web 2.0 Mashups, my book.

I was going to try Google Presentation, the new Powerpoint-like subsystem of Google Docs, until I learned that it doesn't export presentations to Powerpoint or OpenDocument. (See Can I download a presentation to my local computer?.) Now, I might create my PPT or OpenDocument presentation and then upload it to see how good the importing facility is.

There is a new YouTube API based on GData, but there is still upload and write-capabilities: YouTube API Blog: We hear you - we know that upload and other write capabilities are wanted by the community. These features are what we're focusing on next. There is a PHP-based library that lets you do YouTube uploading: PHPTube - YouTube API for Video Upload & Download » nonsmokingarea.com.

One specific questions I have had about tags is how stable is the tagging for a given photo. I think that Cloudalicious - Watching Tag Clouds Over Time does a pretty good job at showing me that there is quick convergence. That's a rough take on what it shows....

For a long time, the Firebug extension would not display any CSS info. I fixed that problem last week:

• the bug
• the fix

I'm glad that Flickr has introduced Collections. (See my collections, for instance.) Pieces of the API are coming: Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.collections.getInfo -- but it's not all there yet. ( yws-flickr : Collections). I was hoping, however, that the collections would also be able to contain other people's pictures.

Web 2.0 & Mashups: How People can Tap into the "Grid" for Fun & Profit » SlideShare is a good short presentation on mashups.

OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas is a blog with lots of tips on how to use OpenOfficeOrg more effectively.

I'd love to take in code4lib video for the 2007 conference. Sorry I couldn't make it since I had a blast that 2006 meeting.

I may have to get in the business of parsing Excel spreadsheets, making use of information I find at OpenOffice.org's Documentation of the Microsoft Excel File Format Excel Versions 2, 3, 4, 5, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 and sc: Spreadsheet Project -- Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

QEDWiki is ready to try. Will it make mashups easier, even trivial, to create?

I just posted a query on the Flickr discussion group: WSDL from Flickr: unorthodox SOAP invocation?:

I've been interested in generating WSDL from the Flickr reflection methods to generate a library that could better keep up with the changes in the Flickr APIs. However, I've run into a problem that stems from what I believe to be either unorthodox SOAP syntax in Flickr -- or just the limitations in my own understanding of WSDL and SOAP.

Let's see what I hear back.

Is there enough mashup-related activity at the Web 2.0 Expo 2007, April 15-18, 2007, San Francisco, California to justify the expense and time to attend?

Haas School News Release is an interesting article on how people buy and sell user reviews on eBay. No surprise there.

REST Web Services, a forthcoming book by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, is definitely worth watching:

We want this to be the definitive work on the real-world use of REST. If you're a REST fanatic, we need your input now: your best practices, rules of thumb, and folklore; your review of what we write.

I'd like to have such a great reviewing system for my own book as the one I see for Django Book. The comment points to Jack Slocum's Blog » yui-ext 0.33 RC3 - What's New?