Category Archives: mashups

Mashup University – resources and blogs

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If you are reading my mashup posts you should ALSO be checking out these far better mashup info sources:

Programmable Web – John manages the holy grail of mashup info. He posts it all here.

Mashup Camp Blog 

Mashup University

Blogs of Mashup Maniacs.  Or at least people who came to Mashup Camp 1:

Mashup University – Microsoft Gadgets and AJAX.

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Scott Isaacs – The Architect for MS Live .. remixing the web. The LIVE team remains impressive.

Mashups are not new, but the Mashup revolution – the low cost, richer services and experiences, allow us to build things like Zillow.com that would have been totally prohibitive without the backup infrastructure.

Millions of IM users – HUGE reach at NO cost. Cool.

Leverage your investments by remixing. Mashups bring traditional software development … to the web.

Windows live has internalized the Mashup philosphy – Windows live properties are … mashups. The LIVE experience is built out of gadgets. Will be turning gadgets ON in MS spaces. Build a great gadget and get the viral impact. [ NOTE – IMHO how users will populate their increasingly customized browser window with widgets/gadgets/toolbars/messeging/etc is the coming *key* battleground for the big players. Seems Yahoo and MS understand this better than Google? ]

Live Gadget Framework – 100% Firefox compatible. Not yet supporting Safari for technical, not philosphical, reasons.

Demo of Concerts Gadget – concerts + flickr pix. Scripts plus style sheets into gadget. Can derive new gadgets from the old ones.

Demo: notepad gadget

A performance advantage and challenge:

Life Cycle of the applications is NOT driven by refresh, rather by the application itself. Must “clean up after yourself” and get rid of gadgets after they are not used anymore.

Future Thinking:

Microformats – great standards for data transferability.

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What to make when you CAN make ANYTHING

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Still reeling from the mashup vibe. The game has changed from what type of web environment can we AFFORD to build to what type of web environment do we WANT to make? With only minor exaggeration it’s now possible to create pretty much any website application you can imagine online very cheaply using existing APIs and existing data, and only a modest level of programming skill or support.

In the travel space this has huge implications because there are no great sites out there. Expedia and Travelocity are busy pitching vacations to people rather than building a rich interactive travel experience. Better sites like TripAdvisor and Virtual Tourist remain kind of clunky and lack the comprehensive approach though I still think VT is tops due to it’s community focus, though they appear to have too few people (of the 600,000 members they claim to have) actively participating to be robust enough to compete on a global scale for traffic. Comprehensive sites like our Online Highways are too dull and closed and lack community.

So, what will we do now that we can do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in travel?

Stay tuned!

Speed Geeking Session

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Here at Mashup Camp part of the open conference concept is the upcoming “speed geeking” session which will showcase about 23+ mashups that are competing here for the “best mashup” award – a niagra server from Sun, delivered by…. the president of Sun.

If you want NEWS and VIEWS about this event I’m not a good source – go to the project Wiki which is HERE and Programmable Web, John Musser’s superb site about Web 2.0 and such things. John is here and very dedicated to providing a great 2.0 resource, though I think he’s got a tiger by the tail and may need to choose between that and his day job (consulting) soon.

SpeedGeeks / Mashup Contest entries:
#1 Dave – StrikeIron.com
Dave Brooks – Bungee Labs
Robert – FlySpy – Airfare Search
Yogi Benjamin – GoodStorm.com.
? Mobido.com – mobile phone communities
Taylor – popbop.org – mp3 podcasts, concert info.
Edgeio.com
David – Rrove – social bookmarking with locations. Google maps.
Masterbeta ?
Mapbuilder.net – Google maps.
Universal submit – events data mashup with competitors to add events to eventful and OTHER sites….
Itunes + Ical Calendar – where and when for performers.
Bart and Frank – TrainCheck.com – Mobile phone application sends train times by phone. DC and SF.
CommerceNet Labs – MIFFY micro formats editor. Suckup vs Mashup.
Computer disposal mapping mashup.
#16 Brian – Online Training blogs? for runners, weight training, etc. Mashing with map/topography.
#17 Adrian – http://www.chicagocrime.org Created BEFORE the Google API. This guy is *good*.
Mosez – mobile ap for ?
Weatherbonk and Skibonk. Weather and maps and satellite stuff.
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Jeff Marshall, FrozenBear Attendr for MashupCamp. Social interaction at gatherings.
Yoz? NING.com – fast social networking mashup maker
Yoz – UK Govt Data Mashups.
DudeWheresMyUsedCar.com – ebay and maps