{"id":129,"date":"2007-03-20T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/google-tech-talk-mashups-combining-web-applications-to-make-desktop-productivity-tools\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T16:51:33","slug":"google-tech-talk-mashups-combining-web-applications-to-make-desktop-productivity-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/google-tech-talk-mashups-combining-web-applications-to-make-desktop-productivity-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tech Talk: Mashups – Combining Web Applications to Make Desktop Productivity Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting tech talk<\/a> by Mark Birbeck CEO of X-Port<\/a>. Some of my colleagues saw Mark talk at the mashup*<\/a> event in London last month. Although I have reservations about the Sidewinder framework he proposes, we at Talis are doing more and more work to make API’s available to developers that can be called from desktop based applications like the widgets and gadgets Mark describes. The problem with Sidewinder<\/a> though is it provides a wrapper around web based applications allowing you to run them on your desktop – and im struggling to see the value in that.<\/p>\n

I’ve done a fair bit of work creating Yahoo (Konfabulator) Desktop Widgets<\/a> that use our API’s which will be released in the new few months, as exemplars of how developers out there can mashup our API’s with other services to create interesting and even compelling new applications. We like mashups at Talis, in fact we held a very successful mashup competition last year, which we are running again this year<\/a> so if your interested why not enter the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting tech talk by Mark Birbeck CEO of X-Port. Some of my colleagues saw Mark talk at the mashup* event in London last month. Although I have reservations about the Sidewinder framework he proposes, we at Talis are doing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,9,5,28],"tags":[387,399,389,385,408],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-talis","category-tech-talk","category-technology","category-widgets","tag-google","tag-talis","tag-tech-talk","tag-technology","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}