Everyblock Launches Local News Service
A new site called Everyblock plans to use mashups to provide local news and maps down to your very block. They blogged about the launch of their service in three cities today.
For a long time, that's been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering. Every day, a wealth of local information is created -- officials inspect restaurants, journalists cover fires and Web users post photographs -- but who has time to sort through all of that?Everyblock has launched in three American cities: Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Technology Evangelist blogs that Adrian Holovaty, the person behind the Chicago Crime website, put together the team behind Everyblock.
Our mission at EveryBlock is to solve that problem. We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We're a geographic filter -- a "news feed" for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your block.
Posted on January 23, 2008
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ZonTube Mashes Amazon and YouTube
ZonTube is a handy website that mashes results from Amazon.com's music store with videos on YouTube.com. Search for an artist and then select an album from that artist and ZonTube will show you a list of songs from the album. Each song that has YouTube videos available will have a link next to it that shows you the videos from YouTube. Some of the videos on youTube are made by fans and some of them are the official videos for the song. Lifehacker explains how you would find music videos for the songs from Norah Jones' latest album.
Say you're looking for the new Norah Jones album and would like to see if there's a music video out yet for any of the songs. You can use ZonTube to instantly find out if Norah indeed has released any music vids for every song on her album, and watch them right there within ZonTube. ZonTube is organized into categories from Alternative Rock to Soundtracks (with sub-categories for each); you can also click on the frequently updated New Releases to find out what's up and coming.Some of the more popular artists have more videos on YouTube. For example, Britney Spears' Oops!... I Did It Again album has YouTube videos for pratically every song on the album. You can see the ZonTube page for this album here.
Posted on January 23, 2007
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Yahoo to Allow Yahoo Email Mashups
Reuters is reporting that Yahoo is going to be allowing software developers to develop new applications using Yahoo Email.Officials of the world's largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail.The announcement was made at Yahoo Hack Day. You can read the Hack Day blog for more informatoin. Reuters reported that developer Dan Lindquist is already working on a mashup using Yahoo Mail and Flickr.
The move to open up the underlying code of Yahoo Mail -- used by 257 million people -- is designed to spark development of thousands of new e-mail applications built not only by Yahoo engineers but by outside companies and individuals.
Chad Dickerson, head of the Sunnyvale company's software developer relations program, said he believed that the open approach to programming represented the biggest single Web software ever to be opened up for public development.
Posted on October 2, 2006
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Viacom's Video Mixer
B2Day blogs about a Viacom website that includes a useful video tool called Video Mixer. Video Mixer lets you mix clips from the N's shows, like Degrassi and O'Grady, with music and graphics.
It is dead-simple, but it gives you enough functionality (you can lay down one of four music tracks, put in transitions between scenes, and add graphics) to create fun, viral video clips. (Here's mine). Then once you e-mail that, an ad from Skittles is inserted in front of your mashup. It's the perfect media microchunk. Media companies need to provide more tools like this to help raise the bar for consumer-generated video.Many film and tv studios offers stills and desktop pictures on their websites. B2Day is right that they should also be offering video mixing tools as well.
Posted on March 29, 2006
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