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Mashing, Scraping, and APIs - 17:12

Mashups

Hipmonk

Gist - just bought out by blackberry

http://opensignalmaps.com/

http://instalyrics.com/

http://www.checkinmania.com/deals

Scraping

Computers reading data otherwise intended for end-users

The billion dollar scraping business

Google

Infochimps

Pitfalls

Copyright, Terms of Service

Fragile

Advantages

Access to data otherwise not available

Tools to make scraping less painful

http://scraperwiki.com/

http://www.junar.com/portal/HomeManager/actionQuery

APIs

Data/operations made available to computer programs

XML/REST/SOAP/oauth

Top APIs

Payment Gateways

Google Maps

Twitter

Flickr

Shipping, UPS/FedEx

Facebook

Twilio

APIs as a strategy for business

Twitter

Google Maps

Successful businesses based on APIs

Tweetdeck

Twilio