December 2008
Web Workers
(via)This specification defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism.
October 2008
ProgrammableWeb - Mashups, APIs, and the Web as Platform
(via)ProgrammableWeb gets you the latest on what's new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the Web as Platform. It's a directory, a news source, a reference guide, a community.
May 2008
Google AJAX Search API Blog: Speed up access to your favorite frameworks via the AJAX Libraries API
by 1 other (via)The AJAX Libraries API is an attempt to make Web applications faster for developers in simple ways:
* Developers won't have to worry about getting caching setup correctly, as we will do that for you
* If another application uses the same library (much more likely), they there is a much better chance that it will be already caching on the users machine
* The network and bandwidth of the users systems will not be taxed.
November 2007
OpenSocial - Google Code
by 6 others (via)OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.
February 2007
TagMaps Web Services
(via)TagMaps is a toolkit to visualize text (well, tags) geographically on a map. TagMaps is available as a Flash component for your own website. The tags input to the visualization can be drawn from your own application - or you use the data API of one of our sample applications, World Explorer, where we used TagMaps to visualize Flickr tags on a map.
TagMaps is a research prototype from Yahoo! Research Berkeley. We'd love to hear your questions or comments; please come visit our blog and drop us a line.
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