A Few Nights of Hacking Produces Reading Radar
Earlier this month, developer and mashup extraordinaire John Herren released Reading Radar, a mashup that combines the New York Times Bestseller's API with Amazon's API, and created a simple, purposeful site dedicated to listing the popular books on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Using various open source technologies such as jQuery, the Yahoo! User Interface Library and the Maintainable Framework, Reading Radar lets you scan the New York Times top sellers and read reviews and related book information from Amazon; all without the distractions of other content on both the New York Times and Amazon sites.
The New York Times released their API on January 27; Herren had Reading Radar up by February 3. As the Programmable Web points out "This mashup serves as a great example of how emerging and mature APIs can be used to rapidly develop a functional and useful mashup."
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