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Facebook Owns the Internet, Project Loon Powers Sri Lanka... [Tech News Digest]
Facebook has all the users, Sri Lanka connects to Google, Angry Birds 2 released, Amazon pushes the button, Microsoft adds ads to Solitaire, and The Last of McGyver.
Email Spam Drops Below 50%, Get Paid for GoPro Videos, & More... [Tech News Digest]
Spam be gone, making money making GoPro videos, update Windows now, Spotify sends playlists, FIFA 16 covers female players, and a genius Star Wars/Mad Max mashup.
8 Google Mashups To Have Fun With And Learn Something New About Our World
Let's just say, that Google developers are a thriving lot thanks to open APIs of many of its products from Google Maps mashups to YouTube. One of their online meeting places is the Google Developers site. Google Developers houses all resources like the Google Developer products and toolkits for building cutting edge applications. Quite a few of them – 424 at last count – are organized in the Showcase.
8 Excellent Instagram Mashups You Should Have Already Checked Out
Probably, photos come second to maps when it comes to mashups. Unlike a map, a photo tells a story. When you combine it with something else and create a “mashup”, it is often interactive. Mashups are uniquely Web 2.0 in their origins and spread. If you look at all popular mashups, you will often see it is a reflection of a web application’s popularity and the way we use it in our daily lives.
Twitonomy: Your One-Stop-Shop for Twitter Analytics, Backup, and Useful Information
As MakeUseOf’s Twitter manager, and a somewhat active user on Twitter myself, I’m always on the lookout for good Twitter tools. These include great clients, insightful analytics tools, interesting Web apps, and cool Twitter mashups. But so far, my Twitter finds were pretty segmented. It’s either a client, a tracking tool, a backup tool, or something else. That is, until I found Twitonomy.
7 Fascinating Google Maps and Mashups to See the World With Different Eyes
Google Maps are a treasure trove for discoverers. Not only do they help you navigate and not get lost, you can also discover some pretty weird things in Street View, explore data and information in unique ways with Google Maps mashups, or create your own custom maps. In short, there is never a chance to get bored with Google Maps.
Five Fascinating Uses for Google Maps & Earth
I think there can be little doubt that writers here at MakeUseOf really love Google Maps and Google Earth. We've written about them extensively, such as John's Google Maps mashups article or Ann's article on historical mashups using Google Maps. There are a lot of really cool things that programmers can do with Google mapping tools. This was the case over five years ago, and it's still the case today.
5 Amazing Google Street View Mashups You Need To Try
If you’ve ever used Google Maps (which I assume you have), you will know all about Street View. But did you also know there are many cool, funny and useful Street View mashups that let you do more than just view the street? Personally, I’ve always heard these mashups existed, but never really took the time to check them out. After exploring some really cool Google Earth mashups recently, I decided it was high time to see what could be done with Street View.
Spot Airplanes In The Sky With These Websites & Google Earth Mashups
When you think about it, there’s nothing more exciting the airplanes and flight. The fact that humans can enter a huge metal device which then commences to fly through the air and cross the Earth is mind blowing, despite the fact that we’ve all got used to it and take it pretty much for granted. To remind you how truly amazing it is, and give you a bird’s eye view of this immense industry, there’s nothing better than flight trackers.
10 YouTube Mash-Ups Guaranteed To Make You ROFL
I have a tough job sometimes, and when the orders come from above to sit there and troll YouTube looking for funnies, I am only too happy to oblige. I offer my services to you so that a days worth of searching can be condensed into 30 minutes of visual stomach-rumbling ecstasy. So without further ado, here are 10 YouTube mash-up and remix videos that are guarantee to give you hysterics.
10 Unique Google Maps Mashups You Can Explore For Information
Do you know you can find anything on a map these days? Columbus might have disagreed, but aren’t maps made for that very purpose? Well, I was talking more along the lines of finding offbeat things like CIA secret prisons to free beer (ok nix that last one…it’s more in my imagination!). But thanks to the Google Maps API and innovative minds, we have a glut of mashups detailing everything on a map.