Michael Levin's Blog – March 2009 Archive (3)

Mashup Patterns

Mashups are a fascinating and useful way to explore the "deep web". A mashup pulls in data from other websites to create a view of data greater than the sum of the parts. An article just came out today in InformIT called Mining the Deep Web with Mashups that explores mashups from a current perspective. The author, Michael Ogrinz, has just published a book:… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on March 29, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Laconica - a micro-blogging tool



What is laconica? It's an open source micro blogging platform. Here's an example of it in action: Smallpicture. My account is here.

Do we need another Twitter? No but, It's definitely useful to have the ability to implement micro blogging elsewhere. For…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 24, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

What's bit.ly?

On the surface, bit.ly appears to be a tinyurl.com clone. But, bit.ly has a powerful API so you can use it in your websites. It also has semantic capability and uses Amazon S3 to store your data. It's GeoSpatially enabled, which raises all sorts of possibilities. Think iPhone apps - especially with iPhone 3G's GPS capability. Here's a good… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on March 22, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

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