Three Good Mashup Sites

Filed in archive Application Development on September 28, 2005

I'm very interested in the new trend happening with Web Services. I've been digging around to find more information about this stuff and I found the following three sites:

• Web API Tracker is a blog that tracks recent events


• The second is a Wiki called WSFinder.com. This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with.
  


• The last site I will mention is Programmableweb. ProgrammableWeb is a web-as-platform reference site and blog delivering news, information and resources for developing applications using the Web 2.0 APIs.

All of these sites have blogs that are updated regularly. I'm a fan of all three now and I think I will be for a long time. I don't know how far the use of these "Web APIs" will go but I'm enjoying what I see so far. There has to be a line that will be crossed some day. Some provider of data will at some point find the information they are providing is being used in a way they did not intend and they will try and stop that use. Only time will tell I guess and things are moving pretty fast.