Whois & Analysis for programmableweb.com

ProgrammableWeb is an information and news source about the Web as a programmable platform.

It is a subsidiary of MuleSoft and has offices in San Francisco, CA.

The website publishes a repository of web APIs, mashups, and applications, and has documented over 12,000 open web APIs and thousands of applications.

It has been called the "journal of the API economy" by TechCrunch.

A mashup (computer industry jargon), in web development, is a web page, or web application, that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface.

For example, a user could combine the addresses and photographs of their library branches with a Google map to create a map mashup.

The term implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open application programming interfaces (open API) and data sources to produce enriched results that were not necessarily the original reason for producing the raw source data.

In computer programming, an Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software.

In general terms, it is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components.

A good API makes it easier to develop a computer program by providing all the building blocks, which are then put together by the programmer.

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.

English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

He wrote the first web browser computer program in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland.

The Web browser was released outside of CERN in 1991, first to other research institutions starting in January 1991 and to the general public on the Internet in August 1991.

Information is that which informs.

In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind.

It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts.

As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.