APIs and Mashups

20. September 2008 | From Tino Kressner | Category: Webtrends

The collaboration of several collaborative online applications through the API technology. An API is literally translated an Application Programming Interface, to German: application programming interface. It allows a software system to another program to be connected. They allow the exchange of information and interaction between two different systems. For example, Google offers its geographical maps online through an API to. This can create your own web applications provided by Google's map data back and even with additional features added. If two applications via an API interface combined to form a new application, called a Mashup. Clearly this is an example of www.soup-soup.net. This service combines news from the major news portals, CNN, BBC, FOX, etc., with articles from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia knowledge, Flickr photos, blog posts using weblog search engine Technorati, Vizu polls from the list of slang UrbanDictonary. Everything worth knowing about the information in a message are hereby informed of a one-stop shop available.