Mashups are applications that use more than one source to create something new. Mapping mashups are about 32% of what's out there right now, but photo and news mashups are becoming more popular. Check the Programmable Web for more info.
Mashups are:
- easy to use
- easy to find
- easy to manipulate
- the future of web stuff
- Facebook: The Visual Bookshelf
- Google Maps API
- Daily Mashup
- Newsmap
- Book Carousel
- Placeopedia
- USGS Earthquake Hazard
- Chicago Crime Statistics
- Housing Map
- SuprGlu (FrickeGlu)
- Frappr (blogginglibrarians)
- add this app (point & click - like iGoogle's widgets, Facebook apps)
- clone (yahoo pipes is an example)
- program (server side - Google API for example)
- Intellectual property: know when you can use the data or site, so you're not violating copyright; make sure you know when it's okay to remix
- Copyright: check for Creative Commons licenses
- Provenance: pay attention to the origin of the info and authority
- Scale and dependency: can you get support for using the mashup?
- Keeping up!
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For people interested in Mashups, I'd suggest that you take a look at MashupMania.com - it's another web based visual mashup tool that just rencently launched.
Orchestr8's AlchemyPoint is another mashup builder platform made available in recent weeks. It offers a variety of capabilities not found in Popfly, Yahoo Pipes, etc. -- including the ability to visually copy-and-paste any web content, and visual mouse-based web content scraping.
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