Steve Souders just pointed me to the great news that two great open source performance projects are working well together: Pat Meenan just blogged about Page Speed results now available in Webpagetest. This is a great step toward greater consistency in the world of web performance, something that benefits developers and ultimately benefits web users. The Page [...]

Evan Jacobs is one of the developers doing some really interesting things with the Twitter API. Instead of using Twitter as a means of broadcasting information, Jacobs' apps are actually gathering information from Twitter to turn it into something more useful.

If you're working with mobile browsers tinySrc will dynamically scale your images down to the right size on the server side: PLAIN TEXT HTML: http://i.tinysrc.mobi/http://mysite.com/myimage.png To use, you simply prefix the URL to your image with a pointer to tinysrc: PLAIN TEXT HTML:   tinySrc will then do the magic for you: Unless you tell it otherwise, tinySrc will resize the image [...]

Take Twitter, add its concepts as a platform to banking and you get BankSimple, the unlaunched startup that you will definitely want to keep your eye on. BankSimple is a new take on online banking created by Twitter's former API guy, Alex Payne. BankSimple is aiming to create a banking platform, much as Twitter became a messaging platform.

I recently saw the new HTML5 Search input element and wondered what the heck it does: PLAIN TEXT HTML:   Chris Coyier has posted an in-depth article going into this new HTML5 input type to appease your curiosity. The HTML5 spec actually says you don't have to do much with it, but Webkit actually has a [...]

Indie rock band Arcade Fire used HTML5 and the Google Maps API in its latest video to transport us to the neighborhood we grew up in. Director Chris Milk worked with the Google Chrome team to blend music, art, and place into an interactive experience called The Wilderness Downtown. The video mashup takes us into the memories of our youth through Street View and 3D rendered map tiles.

This week we had 13 new APIs added to our API directory including a social spending service, content sharing service, smartphone setting dection service and social movie review service. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.

This past week 23 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 41 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AddThis Menu, Campaign Monitor, ChartLyrics Lyric, Google Apps Email Migration, MailChimp, Outside.in, Tropo and Walk Score. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (7 APIs, 17 mashups), Search (6 APIs, 6 mashups) and Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:

Ask someone what makes a map and you're likely to hear that it's the roads or the physical characteristics. A new mashup is questioning whether you can still have a map without these details, while at the same time showing off the map styles feature that Google Maps announced in May.

Here at ProgrammableWeb we do things like read terms of use for fun. That's just how we roll. We were perusing Yahoo! APIs Terms of Use when we stumbled on something that truly surprised us. Yahoo doesn't want us using their API's to operate nuclear facilities. Operating a nuclear facility through any Yahoo API is in fact grounds for having your license terminated. That's not all we found.

The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be tough. The YUI team wants to help developers get up and running more quickly and announced yesterday the release of SimpleYUI; a basic and more streamlined version of the YUI [...]

Josh Duck has put together a fun and useful list of the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft but organized like a periodic table of elements: When you click on one of the tags more information appears: Who says chemistry can't be fun? [via Jackson Harper]

Twitter has gone OAuth-only and it is judgement day for the scores of Twitter apps still using basic authentication. Developers have had a few months to switch across to the new OAuth protocol (and the deadline was extended again to accommodate the World Cup), but it seems like quite a few never made the switch, or still have users running older versions of their software. A quick Twitter search reveals some frustration.

App publisher tools Date Updated: 2010-09-02 Tags: html, javascript, toolbar

Smartphone setting dection service Date Updated: 2010-09-02 Tags: mobile, telephony

Online storage Date Updated: 2010-09-02 Tags: cloud, storage

Content sharing service Date Updated: 2010-09-02 Tags: audio, phone, photo, social, text

Mapping infrastructure and data access Date Updated: 2010-09-02 Tags: Data, geographic, mapping, visualization

By Dion Almaer webOS 2.0 SDK has just launched, and it has node.js built in (and more). The following is taken from my personal blog At our last Palm Developer Day, Ben and I discussed future APIs for webOS including "JavaScript services" as a way to write code that runs on the other side of the device [...]

Social spending service Date Updated: 2010-09-02 Tags: money, shopping