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CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 7643 days AGO

Recombinant Services are services that combine and glue, rip and hack, slice and dice existing web-accessible services (of any kind, we're not the SOAP club here) to produce something new, be it exciting or utterly boring. On this page I'll collect some exemplars of this (not totally, but still) newfangled species.

The point is: Thanks to loose coupling and simple interfaces (which often aren't even designed as interfaces for automatic processing) and the Free Flow of The Datastream™, cool things can emerge, bottom-up, without the constituents knowing anything about each other. Be ready to witness a cambric explosion.

Amazing Baconizer by [create Eric Promislow]
Combines: Amazon, Amazon and ... Amazon.
URL: www.baconizer.com/
Amazon Top Wish List Items by Dan Chan
Combines: Daypop data (spidered off Weblogs), Amazon wishlists
URL: www.daypop.com/wishlist/
Weblog Bookwatch by [create Paul Bausch]
Combines: weblogs.com, Weblogs, Amazon.
URL: www.onfocus.com/bookwatch
All Consuming by Erik Benson
Combines: weblogs.com, Weblogs, Amazon.
Comments: Essentially a somewhat neater Weblog Bookwatch variant.
URL: allconsuming.net
Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock by Philip Greenspun
Combines: see URL (US/Nasdaq/Security APL)
URL: db.photo.net/WealthClockRealTime
GoogleBrowser by Martin Spernau
Combines: Google, TouchGraph
URL: traumwind.tierpfad.de/soap/
AMZNVista by Christian Langreiter
Combines: Amazon (Collaborative Filter Data), TouchGraph
URL: amzn-vista
GoogleSetVista by Christian Langreiter
Combines: Google (Sets), TouchGraph
URL: google-set-vista

What warrants inclusion? The more services and/or data sources combined, the better. The more creative the combination, the better. Infrastructure-level services (like Google or weblogs.com, which in principle are recombinant services as well) will be spared a mention. Rankers and Aggregators, however, are usually very much welcome.

If you've catched a servicing creature not yet on display in this zoo, please lose no time and notfiy me immediately.