Category Archives: Web 2.0

Libraryhack Competition Promises Some Creative Applications

Libraryhack is a new mashup competition that is an initiative by Australian libraries to encourage innovative uses of open data sets from both Australian and New Zealand libraries combined with other publicly available data sets.

I’ve been having a browse through the available data sets and there is a lot of useful information that could be potentially combined in a very innovative way.  Unfortunately I hadn’t seen this early enough to be able to come up with a viable entry in time for the competition.  However I would love to cobble something together when the next opportunity comes up.

Finding Uses for Yahoo! Pipes and Yahoo! Query Language

I’ve been aware of both these technologies for some time, well over a year, however I’m yet to find a personal use for either of them.

Yahoo! Pipes

From Yahoo! “Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.”

You can find it here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Yahoo! Query Language

From Yahoo! “The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.”

You can find it here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

I’m interested in hearing about how you might have put these two technologies to use

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