Communication

Project Links

Looking for project ideas? Browse these examples of cool web mashups.

Data Visualization and Photo Mashups

• We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on the web that harvests expressions of feelings from blogs.
  http://www.wefeelfine.org/
• Universe creates constellations revealing our modern mythology.
  http://universe.daylife.com/
• LivePlasma uses the Amazon API to show connections between movies, bands, and actors in a visually compelling fashion.
  http://www.liveplasma.com/
• Collage automatically creates photomosaics from web images.
  http://www.francisshanahan.com/collage/bezos/bezos_b.aspx

Mapping Mashups

• TwitterVision is a geographic visualization of Twitter that shows what people are tweeting around the world.
  http://twittervision.com/
• FlickrVision shows the geotagged photos that people are uploading around the world.
  http://flickrvision.com
• WiiSeeker uses Google Maps, eBay, and Amazon to help users locate a Nintendo Wii.
  http://wii.findnearby.net/
• Where's Tim Hibbard? shows where Tim is right now. Tim carries a GPS-enabled mobile phone with him at all times.
  http://timhibbard.com/wherestim/
• ASCII Maps shows you Google Maps in retro ASCII art.
  http://www.asciimaps.com/
• LAPD Crime Maps is a map-based visualization of crimes in Los Angeles.
  http://lapdcrimemaps.org/
  

Game Mashups

• NewsBreaker is a game involving live news stories.
  http://www.newsbreakergame.com/
• Goggles is a fun flight simulator built on top of Google Maps.
  http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html
• FlickrSudoku is a mashup of Flickr and a popular online Sudoku player.
  http://flickrsudoku.com/

Social and Educational Mashups

• Beam Me Up, Hottie uses the HotOrNot API to find guys and girls by your location.
  http://www.beammeuphottie.com/
• The MilliDunst Calculator will tell you how famous a celebrity is, measured in “millidunsts,” since Kirsten Dunst is obviously the standard against which all other celebrities should be measured.
  http://millidunsts.appspot.com/
• Bboogle is and open source project led by Northwestern University to integrate Blackboard and Google Apps
  http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle/

Documentation

This section contains links to tutorials and reference materials for many of the tools, APIs, and technologies used in H79.2802.

Mashup APIs

• The Google Maps API is a powerful and flexible Javascript API that is extremely popular for building map-based mashups and visualizing geographic data
  http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
• The Flickr API is another extrememly popular API that allows provides programmatic access to the content of the popular photo-sharing site.
  http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
• The YouTube API allows searching, retrieval, playback, and uploading of videos.
  http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html
• The Amazon Associates API can search for and retreive information about Amazon's huge assortment of products.
  https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html
• The Twitter API lets you retrieve realtime messages and (associated metadata) from the popular microblogging service.
  http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
• The eBay API interacts directly with the eBay database to retrieve listings and bidder information and submit items for auction.
  http://developer.ebay.com/common/api/
• Microsoft Bing Maps (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth) is another popular mapping service for creating geographic mashups.
  http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers/
• With the del.icio.us API you can search and access bookmark collections from the popular social bookmarking service.
  http://delicious.com/help/api
• The Google Ajax Search API is a Javascript API for running Google web searches.
  http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/
• The Yahoo Maps API is the third in the trio of popular mapping service APIs. In addition to a Javascript API similar to those offered by Google and Microsoft, it also offers a REST-based API for static map images.
  http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
• The Yahoo Search API is a REST-based API for running Yahoo web searches. It also lets you request related search suggestions and spelling corrections.
  http://developer.yahoo.com/search/web/
• The Facebook API is a platform for building applications for the members of the social networking site. You can use it to read profile information and friend lists and publish news feed activities.
  http://developers.facebook.com/
• The last.fm API gives you access to information about musical artists, albums, and songs, as well as music preferences of users of the online radio service.
  http://www.last.fm/api
• The Yahoo Image Search web service allows you to search the web for images.
  http://developer.yahoo.com/search/image/V1/imageSearch.html
• The Google Chart API makes it easy to construct many varieities of charts and graphs to embed in web pages.
  http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
• The Google Visualization API can be used to visualize many types of data, including data read directly from Google Spreadsheets.
  http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/spreadsheets.html
• Mashery is an infrastructure provider that manages the deployment of APIs for a wide variety of companies.
  http://www.mashery.com/
• The Web Services Directory, hosted by programmableweb, lists over a thousand different APIs, and can be sorted by popularity or category.
  http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/

Toolkits, Languages, and Technologies

• Processing is a programming language and environment for programming images, animation, and sound. It is tailored towards artists and designers, and offers libraries for interacting with many popular web service APIs.
  http://processing.org/
• Adobe Flex is a software framework for building cross-platform rich Internet applications.
  www.adobe.com/products/flex
• JavaFX is a Java-based software platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications that can run across wide variety of connected devices.
  http://javafx.com
• XML is a simple, flexible text format for data exchange.
  http://www.w3.org/XML/
• The Google Gadgets Editor is a tool for quickly editing and hosting embeddable web gadgets.
  http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=gge.xml

Tutorials and Reference Materials

• The Tour de Flex is a tour of Flex capabilities and resources.
  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/web/
• Google Code is a searchable index of open source code in many different languages, and is a great place to search for code examples.
  http://code.google.com
• Joining the data is a useful walkthrough that provides an example of how to mix different data sources.
  http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/joining-data-from-the-guardian-data-store-student-satisfaction-data/
• GO2WEB20 is a browseable directory of Web 2.0 tools and applications.
  http://www.go2web20.net
• Copyright Toolkit is an online resource on the topic of multimedia copyright and on the digital rights.
  http://copyrighttoolkit.com/
• WebMonkey is a collection of web development tutorials and resources.
  http://www.webmonkey.com/