Mash-Ups
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Mash-Ups


I posted a few days ago about mash-ups being the next big thing. An informative podcast episoide on the topic is Inside the Net 13: Web Mashups.
Amber and Leo talk with Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, and PodBop creator, Taylor McKnight, winner of the best of Mashup Camp.

Other mashups we mention:
  • HousingMaps, the Craig's List/Google maps mashup
  • Trulia, the real estate mashup
  • Amazon's Mechanical Turk
  • Frappr maps
  • The greasemonkey Firefox extension
  • Eventful the database Podbop is based on
  • Chicago Crime (2nd place winner at Mashup Camp)
  • Tagcloud.com
  • Snapshirts makes tag-cloud merchandise
  • Beer Hunter beer shopping in Ontario
  • Pandora music matching service
  • programmableweb lists many more
Running time: 32:34
Inside the Web is one of my favorite podcasts.

Mash-ups




- Aips And Mashups
APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us by Gareth Rushgrove appears in the latest Digital Web Magazine.This article, the first in a series of two, aims to lift the lid on all things API; the second article will give you some hands-on tools and tips to get...

- Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes looks interesting. No time to play with it now, but how about running the RSS feeds from our catalogs through Flickr, Google Maps or .... Dead simple mash-ups. Accepts XML, so it is not limited to RSS feeds, those just seem to be the most...

- Rdf Book Mashup
RDF Book Mashup is a semantic Web tool for bibliographic items.The RDF book mashup demonstrates how Web 2.0 data sources like Amazon, Google or Yahoo can be integrated into the Semantic Web.The RDF book mashup makes information about books, their authors,...

- Unapi
Dan Chudnov continued his work on unAPI. Now the slides from his talk at Code4Lib are available. As a rule, I don't link to slides. However, I think this is the best idea since RSS. Think of the implications. Any site can easily install an API to...

- Semantic Web
An no-nonsense guide to Semantic Web specs for XML people appears on Stefano Mazzocchi's 'blog.The Semantic Web has a serious problem: the XML people don't understand it.They think it's an utterly complex way to write metadata that you...



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