Yahoo and AOL's MapQuest separately released APIs they said would give developers more opportunities to build services such as maps, calendars and photo and bookmark sharing into their web-based applications.AOL, as we reported Monday, is releasing an instant messaging toolkit for extending its AIM network, and Microsoft yesterday came out with a "live clipboard", which promises to apply the Windows clipboard metaphor to web services.
Mashup is the name increasingly being given to web-based applications that leverage web services from third parties that have made their APIs available. They're simpler to implement for soft-core developers, those with fewer coding skills
