Sharendipity is a great platform for visualizing third-party data, and it can be done via our REST web services.. This provides an opportunity to access data from an outside source and include it within your application. For example, you can display photographs from your Flickr account, access your Facebook account, or access weather and stock data.

Example Applications

Here are some of the existing examples...

• Flickr Photo Slideshow Template (Flickr) : A customizable web widget that streams photos from Flickr based on a username and/or photo tags.
  
• Flickr Scramble (Flickr) : A customizable puzzle game that uses a Flickr photo as the input to the puzzle.
• Facebook Photo Browser (Facebook) : An application that lets you browse all of the photos in you entire Facebook social graph.
• Facebook Photo Scramble (Facebook) : Like the Flickr example, this is a puzzle game except it uses a photo from your Facebook friends as the input to the puzzle.
• Who Be Me? (Facebook) : This quiz game asks you to pair up random facts about your friends with the correct friend.
• Facebook Photo Demo (Facebook) : A demo application that explains some of the integration points for the Facebook web services.
• Posterous Photo Stream (Posterous) : A customizable web widget that streams photos from your Posterous blog.
• All City Food Drive (Google Docs) : A widget that displays data stored in a Google spreadsheet.
  

Documented Examples

There are more details on the specific bindings for the Facebook API as well as some documentation on a few of the Google components.

Get Started Yourself

Interested in using web services yourself? You have one of two options...

1. Reuse! Grab one of the existing web services that has already been shared out. You can usually find them by simply searching on the "Types" tab for "webservices".