July 07, 2005
Remixing A Tragedy

How powerful are open APIs?

Within hours of the terrorist bombing attack on London’s mass transit system, check out how this one site mixed data from Google Maps, Flickr, and BBC News — all of which offer open APIs — to provide a contextual view of the story that you couldn’t get from any one of those sources alone.

Posted by Jason Lefkowitz at July 07, 2005
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Unfortunate, albeit excellent, example.

Posted by: marnie webb on July 7, 2005 1:34 PM
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