Foundcity, a site that attempts to list favorite things to do at a metropolitan city, does a very horrible job of implementing GoogleMaps API. At best, it’s going to be a horribly designed site that no one will use.
They will really need to hire real engineers to make the site right.
Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. From your computer or cell phone, you tag locations, add photos, label them with any words you want, and plot them to your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly.
via feedmyapp
api, cell phone, favorite things, fly, foundcity, googlemaps, horrible job, Launched, mapping tool, metropolitan city, photos, social mapping, tag locations
Here’s an open embed format called oEmbed. With all the crazy number of different embed formats, this oEmbed might be the solution to all that bizzaz. With some bigger video sites already participating in the oEmbed such as Viddler and Revision3, oEmbed could be the next embed standard for all video/media sites.
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
via readwriteweb
api, Launched, photos, revision3, third party, viddler, video media, video sites, web2.0, Web3.0
It seems like Web 3.0 is nearing and you see Wikis popping up everywhere. These days, most wikis don’t require and wiki markup language. (That’s the whole process of moving to Web 3.0. Sometimes, you can’t even tell it’s a wiki.)
PikiPages, is an evil-brother of PikiWiki, a wiki site that let’s you create wiki pages with sounds, pictures, and video on your Facebook. (Pretty neat I’d say, they are on the verge of Web 3.0 here)
I am not an avid (ab)user of Facebook anymore but these guys have their wikis straight.
Go check out PikiPages on Facebook and found out what you can do. I think this is one Facebook app I might actually log in and check out. (and probably has a good chance of going viral…)
The PikiPages editor is relatively simple to operate. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing device in the Facebook application marketplace, but it’s no eyesore, either. And more importantly, it gets the job done. As long as the job is a fairly elementary one. No finagling with CSS here from what we can gather. Just options to add backgrounds, change layouts, add text, designs, various embeds, photos from your Facebook archive (or uploaded from your PC), audio and video recordings. Is that enough to get by? Only the individual user can decide that, of course, but for most people interested enough to find a place for the application in their personal library of choice services, what’s included may generally be what’s needed.
via Mashable
choice services, evil brother, Facebook, Facebook, finagling, good chance, job, marketplace, markup language, personal library, photos, Social Networking, uploaded, verge, video recordings, wikis
