Twitter Gets Mashed Up 400 Times on Programmable Web
If you've never visited Programmable Web, it's a site you might want to stop by to find some cool mashups (they have over 4800 listed in their directory) and then go try a few out and if you find some useful or just plain cool, share them with others.
If you or some colleagues or friends are the "techie" type they likely already know about Programmable Web but if they don't this site is also for them because it's home to more than 2,000 API's (Application Programming Interface) that are needed to develop mashups. API's can also be used to take an "off the shelf product" and add some customization to the interface and things like the the way results are presented.
In the last two weeks, it [Twitter] accounts for more than a quarter of all mashups added to the directory. Twitter also holds the distinction of being the only API to take the top slot from Google Maps in our “last 14 days” pie chart.. The number of mashups has doubled in less than a year, since we announced 200 Twitter mashups [on June 26, 2009].
So go forward and have a look around this directory and as we said a moment ago, make sure all of your friends and colleagues know about it. It also might make for a good story for your library blog or newsletter. If promoted to the right audience, it would also could make for a great presentation where various staff members who tweet share their favorite mashups and then leave some time for those in attendance to share their favorites. For those new to Twitter and/or social networking in general a presentation like this might also get some loud oohs and ahhs from those in attendance.
Of course the usefulness and overall quality of mashups can very a lot so it's crucial to spend some time picking out the quality.
Finally, your presentation or news story doesn't have to be all Twitter. Hardly. There are plenty of mashups that use Google and Google Maps, Facebook, Flickr, and ebay "api's" to name just a few.
New API's and mashups are entered into the Programmable Web directory daily. Two recent mashups that utilize Twitter are Twejay that uses a synthesized voice to read you your tweets or Twitter search results (it's an alpha release) and My City Now that combines tweets, images (from Flickr), video (from YouTube) and news (via Google) from 10 Canadian cities.
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