Mozilla Labs announced the launch Tuesday of Ubiquity, a browser plugin connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
Ubiquity 0.1:

Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity “command list” to see them all.

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In another piece of great news for online developers, the New York Times is promising to open up their treasure trove of content via an API or “Application Programming Interface” which will make it easy to use that content in other applications and websites. APIs are a key part of the driving force that is fueling online innovation. Only a few years ago, complex data sharing among sites and applications was extremely difficult and often frowned on as a violation of good online citizenship at More»

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At the recent Mashup Camp in Silicon Valley Intel showcased there new “Mashup Maker”, a browser extension that simplifies the process of mashing up websites, allowing users to create fairly complicated data structures without programming or any additional software.
Intel’s Mashmaker beta is now available to all, and since I have not had enough time to play with it feel free to review this program in the comments below if you have experience with this application.
Although Mashmaker appears to be geared more for users and small scale developers this approach to software is important to watch in even in the More»

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Mashup Camp is wrapping up in Mountain View and the votes are getting counted for the best mashup. I was not very impressed yesterday, but today previewed several projects that were both elegant and seemed to have some practical - perhaps even commercial - benefits.
It is not really fair to judge these based on the 5 minute ¨mini-pitches¨ in front of small laptops, but thatś how we do it here at Mashup Camp.
My favorite was Mapdango, which used about 5+ APIs from services like Flickr, Wikipedia, and Google to search city focused information and deliver an More»

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Here at Mashup Camp we are entering day 3 with more speed geeking - this time in much smaller groups than yesterday (pictured), and reviewing actual mashups rather than APIs. About 20 mashups are vying for the best mashup bragging rights and the reward of a Apple Computer prize.
So far the mashups have not been up to the standards from the first camp - not sure why and I have yet to see them all. Most impressive so far for me is Openkapowś mashup making routine, which is More»

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Here at Mashup Camp, Serena is talking about the business mashup space and promoting their tools to simplify the creation and deployment of mashups for large as well as small businesses. Their main focus seems to be the enterprise space with business mashups. Examples include everything from risk tracking to human resources management. www.Serena.com
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Over the next few days we will be live blogging some of the action here at Mashup Camp 6 in Mountain View at the Computer Science Museum.
The first two of four days are ¨Mashup University¨ where companies will introduce their APIs and mashup enabling technologies. Then, at the ¨Mashup Camp¨ of the final two days we will review dozens of new companies that are using mashups in their projects and vote for the top mashup.
This morning Raymond Yee of UC Berkeley is introducing some of the basic concepts, with more complex stuff More»

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WebGuild will be covering Mashup Camp 6 in Mountain View with live blogging and company profiles for the many startups as well as established companies.
The Mashup conference is actually an “UNconference” as Mashup Camp follows an open conference format where participants determine the content and flow of the the sessions which generally cover topics related to the combination of varied data sources into one website or application.
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo will all be in attendance as well as many other key providers of API “Application Programming Interfaces” which allow data sharing and distribution. More»

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You know mashups have hit the mainstream when they hit the NY Times, and this article is a nice introduction to Mashups and why they have become a key component of “Web 2.0″.
Mashups in music are songs that combine words and/or music from 2 or more songs, and internet mashups are similar - generally they are a combination of the information from 2 or more websites or data sources into one site. Zillow.com, for example, is an excellent mashup that takes real estate information and “mashes it” with mapping information, so you can navigate homes and prices More»

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