MashupsStartupsIncubators

From StartupCamp

Combination session: Mashups & Incubators (Mike Prince and Benay Dara-Abrams)

Review of acronyms: SOAP, REST, JSON, RSS/Atom, AJAX, XHTML, WAP, WML

APIs available from: Google, Yelp, Upcoming, AP, ESRI

Google has SOAP and JSON interfaces; APIlity (PHP library)

Tip: use Javascript libraries e.g. Dojo

Reference: http://programmableweb.com/ - “Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs”

Concerns about legal repercussions of using 3rd-party APIs, and business risk of dependencies on APIs. e.g. if you want to build a commercial service based on a mashup using Google Maps, then don’t expect Google to publish standard terms for this - call them and ask.