Episode 121: Mashing, Scraping, and APIs
Find out how your favorite mashup webapp works. News and Follow/Ups – 00:39 Penn State MacAdmins Conference - Geek Tools – 05:14 Jump-N-Carry JNC300XL 900 Peak Amp Ultraportable 12V Jump Starter with Light
An episode of the Faceoff Show podcast, hosted by Faceoff Staff, titled "Episode 121: Mashing, Scraping, and APIs" was published on May 17, 2011 and runs 0 minutes.
May 17, 2011 ·0m · Faceoff Show
Summary
Find out how your favorite mashup webapp works. News and Follow/Ups – 00:39 Penn State MacAdmins Conference Geek Tools – 05:14 Jump-N-Carry JNC300XL 900 Peak Amp Ultraportable 12V Jump Starter with Light Coleman Cable 08660 20-Foot Heavy-Duty Auto Battery Booster Cables with Polar Glow Clamps, 4-Gauge Webapps - 11:06 Plastic Jungle - Buy and sell gift cards Famous Objects From Classic Movies - Can you guess the object? Mashing, Scraping, and APIs - 17:12 Mashups Hipmonk Gist - just bought out by blackberry http://opensignalmaps.com/ http://instalyrics.com/ http://www.checkinmania.com/deals Scraping Computers reading data otherwise intended for end-users The billion dollar scraping business Google Infochimps Pitfalls Copyright, Terms of Service Fragile Advantages Access to data otherwise not available Tools to make scraping less painful http://scraperwiki.com/ http://www.junar.com/portal/HomeManager/actionQuery APIs Data/operations made available to computer programs XML/REST/SOAP/oauth Top APIs Payment Gateways Google Maps Twitter Flickr Shipping, UPS/FedEx Facebook Twilio APIs as a strategy for business Twitter Google Maps Successful businesses based on APIs Tweetdeck Twilio