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WeatherBug In Second Life – WeatherBug API Entry
Long before their was ever Google Lively, there was Second Life. Unfortunately, when one spends enough time within a virtual world, they might not have an opportunity to see what current weather conditions are like in the “real one”. Tony from Cranial Tap has provided a great solution and entered it into the WeatherBug API [...]
WeatherBug Eclipse Plug-in – WeatherBug API Entry
The Eclipse IDE environment is an up and coming development environment which aspires to become an open source alternative to Microsoft’s .NET. Recently a new WeatherBug API contest entry came rolling in that took Java Development Kit 1.4 under Eclipse 3.2 and built a weather plugin that is both impressive and versatile. This Eclipse plugin [...]
PHP WeatherBug Wrapper – WeatherBug API Entry
Today we have yet another PHP entry for the WeatherBug API contest going on right now. This PHP related entry is called the PHP WeatherBug Wrapper. This PHP application allows its users to take the existing wrapper and then build their own frontend for it, possibly to be used on their own web server. One [...]
WeatherBug On Programmable Web
Today I was alerted to WeatherBug’s API contest receiving press in the Programmable Web blog. Some of the highlights include: How the WeatherBug API provides access to over 8,000 weather tracking stations. How developers can use the API to display live weather conditions, daily forecasts, United States camera images and severe weather alerts. That the [...]
BREW 2008 And Mobile Weather
If you happened to be at BREW2008, you likely heard about interviews being done with various attendees with Dave Graveline to discuss what projects they are working on within the BREW world. One of those attendees, happened to be WeatherBug’s own Chris Brozenick from WeatherBug Mobile. Click the image below to open a new window [...]
API Development Contest – Get Yourself Registered
Starting today, WeatherBug is launching a contest for those who are interested in taking truly accurate, live weather data in an API format and building an application around it. This is an opportunity to build your own WeatherBug app exactly the way you would want it to be. This means creating a new web based [...]
A Weather API In Action
Providing a good API is not just allowing developers to take your data and create mashup programs for others to enjoy, it is also about ensuring that your company has its hand on the pulse of what the users are asking for. Having a firm grasp on what their users want already by launching their [...]
WeatherBug For Linux Is Live!
After months of work and beta testing on a multitude of Linux distributions, WeatherBug is proud to redefine the way we retrieve weather data on the Linux platform. Initially launched on Linspire’s CNR.com website, WeatherBug for Linux is the aftermath of the success seen with the previous beta application, WeatherBug Tempest. So what is new? [...]
Latest Firefox Weather Extension
It’s here, the latest WeatherBug Firefox Add-on has officially been released and below, you will find the demonstration video highlighting all that is new with this extension release. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/P_Z-qEASM_Q" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] To recap, new functionality includes: Compatibility with Firefox 3 Improved icons and readability New Options icon New roll over effects Wind [...]
Weather API Solution With Digital Journal
Over the years, the citizen journalist based website, Digital Journal has made accuracy the forefront of their core mission. So when it came time to add a weather function to their offering, the website developers opted to use the web based weather API that provided the most accurate weather available in the US – the [...]
