Mashups
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
I keep reading about Mashups everywhere these days.
So what is a Mashup? Well for the unfamiliar it is a combination of web technology live content and creativity. It is one of the most happening things on the web right now.
Currently the trend is to use popular websites like Google, Yahoo and Amazon and offering access to their public databases and live content through the use of their publicly available programming interfaces, or APIs. The result is a new breed of hybrid website. So for example http://www.housingmaps.com is a mashup of Google Maps and Craiglist. Looking at these kind of creative it feels like we are on the verge of a new age of creativity and innovation.
So what is a Mashup? Well for the unfamiliar it is a combination of web technology live content and creativity. It is one of the most happening things on the web right now.
Currently the trend is to use popular websites like Google, Yahoo and Amazon and offering access to their public databases and live content through the use of their publicly available programming interfaces, or APIs. The result is a new breed of hybrid website. So for example http://www.housingmaps.com is a mashup of Google Maps and Craiglist. Looking at these kind of creative it feels like we are on the verge of a new age of creativity and innovation.
