Posts tagged with 'API'
Ed Parsons is the former chief technology officer of the Ordnance Survey, and one of the most knowledgeable people in the UK’s geospatial industry.
Before his much talked about departure last month, he was one of the central figures in the debate over the Ordnance Survey’s licensing regime – i.e., whether it should offer low cost access to mapping data to encourage the development of applications and mash-ups. He had also been pushing for the organisation to launch an API for non-commercial services and to adopt an open source model in some of its projects.
I caught up with him last week to find out more about internet mapping and his plans for the future…
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by Richard Maven
15 January 2007 10:49am
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Nestoria is a property-focused vertical search engine based in the UK, founded by former engineers at Yahoo.
I talked to co-founder Ed Freyfogle to find out more about the site, the challenges of starting up in the UK and APIs...
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by Chris Lake
12 December 2006 12:17pm
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Ian Forrester and Matthew Cashmore of BBC Backstage, the Beeb's developer network, talked to us about the challenges and opportunities of opening up your data to third parties.
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by Richard Maven
28 November 2006 13:57pm
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Flickr has spotted a new revenue stream via the launch of its camera finder service, which displays the most popular cameras used on the photo sharing site.
Flickr is using the data from photos uploaded to the site to display the most popular makes of cameras and camera phones.
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by Graham Charlton
23 November 2006 14:27pm
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Gifting its underlying infrastructure to web users could help focus a flailing Yahoo!, according to one of the portal's lead developers.
According to an internal memo, aimed at counteracting its listing fortunes but leaked this weekend, company senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse likened the search giant's one-stop shop approach to "peanut butter" - "a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular".
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by Robert Andrews
21 November 2006 18:23pm
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E-consultancy has doubled in size over the past year, but with that has come new challenges - let's just say we have a hefty development to-do list.
With that in mind we're on the lookout for a world class Head of Website Development. Somebody with very strong technical / development skills, as well as an understanding of how our plans fit in with business and marketing goals.
More details after the jump...
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by Chris Lake
14 November 2006 17:47pm
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Internet startup Travelistic.com - which aims to be the YouTube for travellers - launched yesterday, headed up by one-time CEO and president of MTVi.
Travelistic combines user-generated video with professionally produced programming, some of which is exclusive. The self-funded company itself plans to move into content creation, with a travel-themed 'video podcast' in the offing.
Diversion Media built the website using Ruby on Rails, harnessing the Google Maps API in the process to make it easy for users to browse videos by location, in a visual way. Users can also search for videos by tags.
All in all it looks pretty good. We spoke to CEO Nicholas Butterworth to find out a bit more...
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by Graham Charlton
24 October 2006 11:03am
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OpenStreetMap (OSM), the open source mapping project, has secured its first commercial partner by linking up with property search engine Nestoria.
The move will see Nestoria displaying OSM’s user generated maps alongside its property listings – a boost for the project as it seeks to gain popularity among third-party developers.
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by Richard Maven
23 October 2006 17:25pm
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Mashup enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that the Ordnance Survey is to release an API for non-commercial applications.
The organisation – whose data access policy has long been the subject of debate – announced the move at an event in its Southampton HQ on Friday.
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by Richard Maven
23 October 2006 12:26pm
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Let’s face it shall we - no one creates something and then gives it away for free, expecting no return...
I mean, as much as we’d like to do stuff and give it away for free, in the interests of making the world a better place, the unfortunate reality is that we all have to earn our crust somehow, and if we throw our eggs into the user generated content basket, then you have to ask what the hell your revenue model is going to be?
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by Gareth Knight
17 October 2006 12:58pm
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