"Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s service that gives developers access to Amazon’s technology platform with pay-as-you-go pricing, is launching something called the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge - a contest for the best web startup. The winner will receive $50.000 cash and additional $50.000 in Amazon Web Services credits, as well as mentoring sessions from an AWS technical expert, and - last but not least - an investment offer from Amazon. Four second-place winners will receive $5.000 in AWS credits, and everyone that qualifies will receive $25 in AWS credits. " Join discussion...

"Launching on October 1st, and created by MashupAwards.com, mashup enthusiasts have a whole new competition to start on in MashupChallenge.com. There are several angles to keep the competition fresh and exciting. First up is the quarterly nature of the game with everything resetting at the beginning of each quarter. The big twist comes in the form that the developers will receive a random set of 5 APIs from the site’s pool. This should help to ensure some fresh and unique ideas coming out of the competition." Join discussion...

"Wine.com has launched an innovative way to expose their catalog - via RSS with the API on top. Evolving the Typical Online Catalog Until recently, Wine.com was just a basic wine catalog. It was well designed and easy to navigate, but it was definitely a web 1.0 kind of site. As the winds of the new web started to blow, the company realized that it needed to stay on top of the wave. With competitors like Corkd, Snooth and the wildly entertaining WineLibrary.tv innovating in the wine space, the Join discussion...

"Search, browse, and manage your cart all from a single, easy-to-use, page." (amazon mashup) Join discussion...

"It’s official, folks: tools for easy mashup creation are a “must have” if you’re a huge IT company. Intel’s recent announcement of MashMaker puts them side by side with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, but there are several other contenders in this unexpectedly crowded space. All these tools have one thing in common: they make it easier to do things that only programmers could do until now. Each of them has a quite different approach, which makes this a very diverse set of applications. Join discussion...

"n another dust-up over a mashup taking data by screen-scraping, the classifieds listings giant Craigslist has blocked access to its site from Listpic, a useful mashup that enhances Craigslist listings by adding-in associated photos. If you check our existing Listpic mashup profile you can see it has been a very popular application and is 5-star rated by our readers:" Join discussion...