Tasty Mashups
Down in New Orleans we dish out many a mashup. From seafood gumbo to chicken and sausage jambalaya to boiled crawfish, we throw all sorts of love into a big pot and deliver delicious meals. New Orleans’ cuisine engages your tastebuds, enhances your senses, and brings flavor you’ve craved your entire life. By mashing up ingredients like Web services and API’s, Web 2.0 Internet applications build a sensory experience.
In the Internet arena, mashups are basically web application hybrids. Web 2.0 apps are a new breed and the next step in the evolution of user engagement and experiences online. As developers we have the ability to combine technologies providing our users with rich and flexible online experiences.
Here is a short list of Tasty Mashups:
Map Mashups:
www.StormAdvisory.org/map
Google Maps and Hurricane tracking.
Craigslist and Google Maps.
Tagzania is about tags and places. If you register and log in, you can add places, points, to create and document your maps. When you add a point, you may tag it with keywords. That way, Tagzania is not only a place to build and keep your own maps, shared territories are created as well.
CommunityWalk is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interactive, and engaging maps.
The founders believed there should be an easy way for EVERYONE to share where they go, while on the go. Such a system would not be limited to use with fancy GPS-enabled mobile phones. Instead, it would rely on the already-popular text messaging infrastructure available on almost every cell phone. With such a system, users previously excluded from such services can take part in an extraordinary social experience. They can Sharewhere, anywhere.
Search Mashups:
Huckabuck mashes up Google, MSN, and Yahoo search results.
Gnosh pulls morsels from all over the web and organizes them on one plate for you.
These are just a few of many up-and-coming mashups. We are compiling a list of sites mashing it up, so post comments and add yours to the list!
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flavor of love…
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….
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