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Do interesting things with Google Apps

December 16, 2008 – 2:52 am

What else can developers do for Google Apps?
A open, flexible Facebook-style API for Apps would be awesome. Imagine the community building the next generation office platform.
Right now, developers outside of Google can write Gadgets that live on the outside layout areas of GMail. Google developers have done some interesting things with Labs – I use the [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in cloud, google, google apps, microsoft | Comments (0)

Yahoo Application Platform is out – anyone have good examples?

November 5, 2008 – 11:33 pm

The new Yahoo Application Platform was launched.

This looks really cool. I hope it is not all for naught. Anyone using it? Have any examples? Please post them!
The support forum has few active topics. But I think there is potential here, even if Yahoo doesn’t exist in the same form 3 or 6 months from now. [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in api, google, microsoft, yahoo | Comments (0)

Mapping and Location Mashups in Rails: GeoKit and Geonames

August 30, 2007 – 4:55 pm

If you are building geography based mashups in Rails, or just need some simple calculations for distance, be sure to check out GeoKit plugin and Geonames API Gem. They will save you hours of time.

What is GeoKit?
“Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Comments (0)