This project tries to incorporate all popular online map api's of Google Microsoft and Yahoo into one. offering you the same syntax for all of them and easy integration.

Mapstraction additionally fills some holes each provider's current offerings (taking advantage of existing open source solutions where possible) to normalise the feature set across platforms. In the future, Mapstraction will also talk…

Theres one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that its a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. It actually isnt a walled garden at all. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wan

Basically, get creative. Its almost silly how many cool things can be done here. Is there any way to leverage group, page, or event data? Check this out: http://bigsight.org/city/nashville_tn/events. This is a display of the events that I…

This API provides easy access to user investment portfolio data, including current returns and market value. The API lets you develop applications that make it easy for your users to monitor their portfolio performance and retrieve data about the investment transactions in their Google Finance portfolio, while keeping portfolio holdings up-to-date.

This API provides easy access to user investment portfolio data, including current returns and market value. The API lets you develop applications that make it easy for your users to monitor their portfolio performance and retrieve data about the…

As announced at Google Webmaster Central, Google has released a public API to automate the usage of Google Webmaster Tools. The Webmaster Tools gives web site owners detailed statistics about their sites visibility on Google?: retrieving, adding, verifying, and removing websites; retrieving, adding, and removing sitemaps.

An interesting off-shoot of outdoor cooking techniques is solar cooking, which combines primitive skills and modern ingenuity. At its most basic, solar cooking involves creating an “oven” that is placed in the sun and…

The microblogging platform which has found much love from frustrated Twitter users who need an escape from constant errors, is making the effort to compete seriously by allowing third party application development.

Regardless, I do have a Plurk account, I have used it and so have a lot of other internet users because this month alone visits to Plurk have roughly quadrupled.

How long does it take to get promoted? What category is it best to submit to? What is the best time of day to submit a story? Between 2 and 24 Hours, Linux/Unix, and Evening. This article is full of statistics to help YOU get on the Digg Front Page.

While both of these articles are quite interesting, I think the greatest indicator of success on Digg is something I’ve been calling ‘Promote Rate’. Basically, it is the percentage of stories of a given set of…

Chartophiles, have you heard that Google has made it incredibly easy to generate your own slick-looking charts? Its true, and all it takes to make one is the ability to read and edit a URL. This has made it possible for lots of people to get creative with charts. Read on to see whats been done, and how you can do it yourself.

The API allows you to make creative maps-and you’ll see a few different ways to use this ability here.

“HTML5 is a super-sized effort to bring all the browsers under a single, standard markup language and set of APIs - but with Microsoft, Adobe and others racing ahead with their own next-gen web technologies, will we ever see a real HTML5 standard?”

In what is now referred to as Web 2.0, thousands of rich web applications have been developed using HTML, CSS and XML - more commonly referred to as Ajax (ironically the a and x parts of Ajax started as a proprietary add-on to Internet…

In part three of our special multi-part feature, Peter Bright takes a look at the Apple development experience and why it’s so appealing. What’s Apple doing that’s so enticing, and why is Apple’s house in much better order than Microsoft’s?

Obj-C is a kind of hybrid between C and the language Smalltalk. Smalltalk is a niche language that has never been widely used, but it has particularly strong support for one approach to object-oriented programming, called…

Google’s 3D data has escaped the client and is now a welcome addition to the browser! Today at Google I/O a Google Earth Browser plugin is going to be released. With the plugin installed anybody with a Windows machine will be able to view Google Earth mashups in the comfort of their own browser instead of having to pull up a separate client.

The “battle” between Google and Microsoft is closest at the mapping front. Both are spending amazing amounts of money collecting imagery and data (Radar post). Up till now Google had ceded the 3D space in the browser to…

At tomorrow's Google I/O conference, the App Engine team will be making a number of announcements.

While all of this is great progress, we're sure that many will be disappointed that App Engine is still limited to Python Apps. Shortly after launching Google App Engine, we created an interactive game that asked you to both predict what…

Sources report that Facebook will open source its Platform this week.

This kinda looks like shovelware to me, not very well thought out. OpenSocial is designed at a high level to work with many containers, it is very easy to implement, so it bolts on rather nicely to any system. It has a spec, as well as a reference…

Google has opened up their infrastructure to the masses in the form of a Python API. In this article, we are going to “crib” some of the documentation for Google App Engine, and then proceed to actually build an application using the SDK.

Second, this is more condensed, pragmatic version of a tutorial than you will find at the official Google App Engine Website. You might want to refer to that link, again in the references section, if you want to refer to it for some of the items…

Google has just announced a new Maps API for Flash on the Official Google Maps API Blog.

Posted by Mike Jones, Maps API Team Here at Google, we receive a lot of feature requests - and it feels great every time we fulfill one of them. The ability to utilize the power of Google Maps from Flash is one of those requests that has been…