Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tracking UK Liberal Indecency. The mashup I’ve been waiting for: Tom Hume used the Guardian Content API to track swearword usage over time.

# 2nd April 2009, 4:44 pm / tom-hume, guardian, swearing, obscenity, contentapi, mashup

Brighton geek venues. Nat’s latest project: a neat Google Maps mashup listing venues for geek events in Brighton, managed using Google MyMaps to edit a KML file.

# 16th August 2007, 1:38 am / natalie-downe, google-maps, mymaps, googlemymaps, google, kml, mashup, brighton, geek

LiveBus.org (via) Brilliant Google Maps mashup in a similar vein to Chicago Crime—displays screen-scraped bus timetable information for Oxfordshire and Surrey in a far more useful format.

# 10th February 2007, 10:56 pm / livebus, james-wheare, google-maps, chicagocrime, maps, mashup, oxford

Jeff Croft: Geocoding My Life. Really smart weblog integration of the Flickr API, using the Geocoder.us reverse geocoder along with hand entered locations to create a browseable archive of photos by location.

# 1st February 2007, 1:27 pm / flickr, django, geocoding, jeff-croft, mashup

The Rise of a Web 2.0 Technology Stack (via) “Enterprise Mashup Server”—because Web 2.0 wasn’t enterprisey enough...

# 18th December 2006, 6:57 pm / mashup, enterprisey, web20