Anyone used to be able to send a postcard to a U.S. service member by addressing it to "Any Service Member." Now a name is required to send a physical letter. That's where the Gratefulapp mashup comes in. It broadcasts your message via Twitter to troops--or anyone else who checks out its rotating front page.
If you are a bit of a command-line junkie and ever wanted to use APIs but wished you could get that data straight from your favorite shell, GoogleCL is for you. GoogleCL is a new open source project that allows you to utilize major Google APIs without writing code. It defines a set of commands that you can use as command-line utilities and access a number of Google services.
We're always excited to see new approaches to old mashup ideas, so we think you'll like the three we've selected below. It's not just a job board when it also includes Q&A--specifically geared toward common interview questions. It's not just a World Cup map when it also attempts to predict the outcome with Twitter. And it's not just another Last.fm mashup when it's also a dating site for finding someone with similar interests in music.
Have you ever noticed how little sense the placement of zip codes make? Sequential zones are an entire city apart. Sometimes there are even zip codes wholly contained within other zip codes. It takes a visual zip code map to make sense of it. Huge.info has just such a map using an interactive Google Map and custom overlay images.
LinkedIn, the social network for business, has announced an enhanced version of its People Search API. While the V1 Search API contained some powerful and easy-to-use features, the latest additions for the new API are quite impressive.
What's that song? If you're out and about, you might reach for your mobile phone's "name that tune" app, such as Shazam on iPhone. But if you're at your PC, it can be as easy as clicking over to the Audiggle app, which reports on sound from video, internet radio, or anything passing audio to your speakers.
The company that released PageRank for Twitter has added several new calls to its API. Your applications can now build on top of the analysis from "big data" company InfoChimps--and it's free for limited usage. The sorts of tools we've seen in popular Twitter mashups are now part of the InfoChimps collection of Twitter API calls.
Are you ready to let everyone know the expert you are? Start by answering questions on Twitter using Replyz, a new service built on top of the Twitter API. It looks for common question phrases and extracts those tweets to its site. That way, the question can go beyond someone's Twitter followers.
What's that song? If you're out and about, you might reach for your mobile phone's "name that tune" app, such as Shazam on iPhone. But if you're at your PC, it can be as easy as clicking over to the Audiggle app, which reports on sound from video, internet radio, or anything passing audio to your speakers.
