9 posts tagged “web services”

Hi-Def San Francisco are doing some amazing things with their San Francisco Bay webcam :

• time lapse ships videos
  
• real time shipping map that uses AIS data
  
• panoramic panoramas dawn moon night

How do these work ? It's as if they've turned a photo into a Google map and are using the Google map player to display it ? Can anyone do this ?

If you already have a Google Apps account you can add a Google App Engine to it !

1. Login into your Google Apps account
2. Goto your Dashboard | Service settings | Add more services
3. Other Services | App Engine Preview
4. Enter App Id
5. Click Add It Now

Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of business applications that work together and make it incredibly easy for users to communicate, collaborate, and share business information.

Now you can run your favorite desktop applications and your CRM applications side by side by accessing Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs all from within Salesforce.

Google Apps now includes Google Sites which makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document.

Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world. Create a single place to bring together all the information your team needs to share, including docs, videos, photos, calendars and attachments.

Work togetherInvite co-workers, classmates, or your entire organization to edit your site with you to keep it fresh and up-to-date and let as many or few people view your site as you want.

Sample Google Sites

• Company intranet
• Team project
• Employee profile
• Classroom

Learn more about other Google Sites features.

What is Google App Engine
Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users.

Google App Engine

• Google App Engine Video Introduction
• Google App Engine App Gallery

• Google App Engine Quick Start
• Google App Engine Developers Guide
• Google App Engine SDK download
• Google App Engine Conference
• Google App Engine YouTube Group

Learn about the Web Services standards REST and JSON by using Google Panoramio and just your web browser !

Using the Google Panoramio API you can display the photos from Panoramio on your own web site. Geolocated photos from Panoramio are great to enrich your maps or illustrate information where location is a important factor (real estate sites, hotels and vacation sites, routes & trails...).

Here's how you'd get some photos of London (X=~0,Y=~51)

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8075745

This REST call returns a JSON result set that you can view in your browser and cut and paste photo URLs from :

{"count": 42259,
 "photos":
 [
 { "photo_id": 4337937, "photo_title": "Sir Tatton Sykes Monument", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4337937", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw- panoramio/photos/medium/4337937.jpg", "longitude": -0.537515, "latitude": 54.042054, "width": 270, "height": 500, "upload_date": "31 August 2007", "owner_id": 278681, "owner_name":  "G3ZZP", "owner_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/user/278681" }
,
 { "photo_id": 51502, "photo_title": "eclipse", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51502", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/51502.jpg",  "longitude": -0.121665, "latitude": 51.500969, "width": 500, "height": 375, "upload_date": "24 September 2006", "owner_id": 6645, "owner_name": "JesusVillalba", "owner_url":  "http://www.panoramio.com/user/6645" }
 ]
}

For more help see http://www.panoramio.com/help/

The IBM® SOA Sandbox lets you increase your SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience with the IBM SOA entry points. These SOA entry points -- people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity -- are based upon real customer experiences and provide a simple way to get started with SOA. The SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone.

The IBM SOA Sandbox provides a mix of full-version software trials and "try online" hosted environments where you can explore tutorials and get architectural guidance. You'll also find online demos, best practice documentation, and quick-start guides, all integrated into a low-risk, hands-on format that provides practical applications of SOA entry points to accelerate learning.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/soasandbox/

YWS Yahoo Groups

• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-maps/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-shopping/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-search-general/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-travel/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-searchmarketing/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-maps-ajax/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-maps-flash/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-events/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-search-announce/
  

Do you think social software can change the world? Yahoo do.
If you want to join Yahoo, check out these Yahoo! Groups job opportunities.

http://documentation.ning.com/sections/webservices.php

NING have built some of their own components to ease the process of talking to popular web services such as Google Maps, Flickr, Yahoo!, and Amazon.

You can see Google Maps integration at work in the Google Maps Skeleton -- it's just one line of PHP code to plop a map into your NING app!

See also

• http://restdemos.ning.com/
• http://documentation.ning.com/sections/rest.php