Static Maps API - Google Code The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your web page without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL parameters sent through a standard HTTP request and returns the map as an image you can display on your web page. New! The Google Static Maps API Usage Limits have changed. Creating an API key and including it in your request allows you to track usage in the APIs Console, and to purchase additional quota if required. This document details the Static Maps API v2. A Quick Example The following example contains the URL of a static map image of downtown New York City, which is displayed below: Notice that you don't need to do anything "special" to get this image to show up on the page. Audience This document is intended for website and mobile developers who want to include Google Static Maps API images within a webpage or mobile application. API Key
» Demo: BEA’s AquaLogic Pages and IBM’s QEDWiki to battle for co All you need is a quick visit to John Musser's most excellent programmableweb.com or to one of the upcoming Mashup Camps (the next one is coming up in Silicon Valley in July, register here) to know that mashups are the hottest software development category going right now. Mashups, normally a kind of browser-based software that draws on multiple disparate Internet sources to arrive at some unique user experience, span the gamut from finding cheap gas (the data is superimposed on Google Maps) to discovering what local muscians are playing in your area and then sampling their music through downloadable MP3s (before wasting your money heading over the bar). See podbop.org for what I'm talking about (podbop won the first place prize in the Best Mashup Contest at the first Mashup Camp in February 2006). Now, roughly a year after consumers and consumer-oriented developers started grokking the idea of mashups, big business are getting hip to the idea as well.
Developer's Guide Overview - Google Data Protocol - Google Code Warning: Most newer Google APIs are not Google Data APIs. The Google Data APIs documentation applies only to the older APIs that are listed in the Google Data APIs directory. For information about a specific new API, see that API's documentation. For information about authorizing requests with a newer API, see Google Accounts Authentication and Authorization. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. The Google Data Protocol provides a secure means for external developers to write new applications that let end users access and update the data stored by many Google products. This set of documents is intended for anyone who wants to understand Google Data Protocol. If you're looking for the Developer's Guide for a specific API, visit the Google Data Protocol API Directory. If you want to access an API in your favorite programming language, visit the Client Libraries download page. Protocol Version 2.0 vs. HTTP ETags.
Apture • Apture.com BigTable BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable (log-structured storage like LevelDB) and a few other Google technologies. It is not distributed outside Google, although Google offers access to it as part of its Google App Engine. History[edit] BigTable development began in 2004[1] and is now used by a number of Google applications, such as web indexing,[2] MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in BigTable, Google Maps,[4] Google Book Search, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, Orkut,[4] YouTube,[5] and Gmail.[6] Google's reasons for developing its own database include scalability and better control of performance characteristics. Design[edit] BigTable maps two arbitrary string values (row key and column key) and timestamp (hence three-dimensional mapping) into an associated arbitrary byte array. Other similar software[edit]
50 Resources for Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics Google Analytics is a very useful free tool for tracking site statistics. For most users, however, it never becomes more than just a pretty interface with interesting graphs. The resources below will help anyone, from the beginner to those who have been using Google Analytics for some time, learn how to get the most out of this great tool. For Beginners The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners. Tips & Tricks If you’re already fairly familiar with Google Analytics and you’re ready to dig deeper and learn more about how to make use of the information that is available to you with Google Analytics, this list of tips & tricks is for you. Plugins, Hacks & Additions Want to learn how to get even more out of and extend Google Analytics by extending it with third party plugins, additions and hacks?
» A bumper crop of new mashup platforms | Enterprise Web 2.0 | Z In today's mashup world, the apparent business potential of highly accessible and easy-to-use mashup creation tools like Yahoo! Pipes and Microsoft's PopFly is still undermined by their apparent lack of readiness for the enterprise. Mashups could theoretically allow business users to move -- when appropriate -- from their current so-called "end-user development tools" such as Microsoft Excel that are highly isolated and poorly integrated to much more deeply integrated models that are more Web-based and hence more open, collaborative, reusable, shareable, and in general make better use of existing sources of content and functionality. Remember, business workers still spend a significant amount of time manually integrating together the data in their ever increasing number of business applications. So what's typically missing from today's mashup platforms to make them both useful and desirable in the enterprise? Are mashups really a major new development model? Seventeen Mashup Platforms
The Huge Collection of Google Analytics Tips | Search Engine Jou Putting aside all recent arguments and gossip as per privacy issues (yep, nothing is probably totally free and Google Analytics should be using its (your?) data in some way), I should confess, I love the tool and use it. I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too! Note: I haven’t tried all of these tricks with the new Google Analytics code yet, so if there are any problems with any of them, please report. Track 404 page (more info here): I’ve been reporting on the importance of handling your 404 page properly. Classify your site visitors, e.g. track the browsing and buying behavior of your “customers” (those who subscribed, made a purchase or downloaded your product): <script type=”text/javascript”>pageTracker. Google Analytics help page gives the following examples of the option usage: Track your banner ads with the same code as the above one.
earth album alpha - a slicker google maps + flickr mash-up Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process. The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real semantic web, is going to change this. The transformation will happen in one of two ways. The Amazon E-Commerce API - open access to Amazon's catalog We have written here before about Amazon's visionary WebOS strategy. Why has Amazon offered this service completely free? The rise of the API culture The web 2.0 poster child, del.icio.us, is also famous as one of the first companies to open a subset of its web site functionality via an API. The del.icio.us API offering today is different from Amazon's one, because it does not open the del.icio.us database to the world. Standardized URLs - the API without an API Delexa is an interesting and useful mashup that uses del.icio.us to categorize Alexa sites.