Posts Tagged with ‘mashup’

In 22 days, on October 1st, Mashup Challenge will launch, offering developers an interesting twist on creating new web 2.0 mashups.
For those of you who are not exactly sure of what a mashup is, it is "a combination of one or more data sources to create a unified interface and experience." For example, Dewspot is a mashup that integrates features of Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, and Flickr into one central service.
So what's so different the Mashup Challenge? Well, it [...]

Zude is the mashup of all mashups. It allows you to create websites with incredible ease that hasn?t been seen before. This is thanks to their technology that allows you to drag and drop basically any content from any site right onto the page you?re creating. Content includes pictures, videos, widgets, and just about anything else you?d want to take with you from various sites. Zude also allows you the control to take the content you?ve added to the page and [...]

Twitterverse is the latest mashup of the increasingly popular Twitter.  It takes information from "tweets" coming from a certain period of time, and then analyzes them to see which words are being typed the most.  The site just launched, so there's a lot of development to come, such as a bigger filter on the kinds of words being displayed, but it's fun to look through. 
You would never think that some of the most typed words are people's names.  The biggest [...]

Several of Shakespeare’s works are said to be timeless, but on the whole, most of us couldn’t be bothered with the scenes he presented to the world. They’re from a bygone era where wigs were a guy thing, a mustache was something one took pride in, and people seemed to carry around poetic licenses like we do passports today. But though at its core Shakespeare’s fan base is as resilient as ever, the rings of casual readers, listeners, and watchers [...]

Do you like putting two and two together? If so, you’re probably a fan of mashups. You witness everything that goes on over at Mashable!, you refuse to outgrow LEGOs, and you want to bring the Transformers to life.
Good news, then, because Yahoo! just delivered (Wednesday) an easier way to create mashups on your own, online. It’s as basic as basic can get, sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s no fun. The company says Yahoo! Pipes is for those that want [...]

Since you are now reading Profy I can tell for sure that you already have several accounts with various web services. I can bet that you blog on Blogger, share stories from your trips on 43 Places, use iLike to listen to music, share your videos on YouTube and your bookmarks on del.icio.us. I can hardly believe anyone will soon manage to build a mashup large enough to combine all these (and other unmentioned - but still wildly used) services [...]

The rise of the bastions of science education – Caltech, Stevens Institute of Technology, etc. - has brought MIT down off its industry-leading pulpit a bit, but that doesn’t mean Cambridge’s most-prized ivy (for the tech community, that is) has lost any of its swagger. It’s still a place oft cited for inventions, ideas, and general scientific musings, and will likely continue to retain its prestige for years to come, if forever. But despite wielding the royal crown amongst its [...]

For most people in business, email is probably the most useful web related application; it???s replaced snail mail and fax to a significant extent, it provides a quick way to communicate with multiple people, and to send response quickly. Where typically you would spend days waiting for a reply through the postal system, you can expect to get a response within hours to an email; to the point where people now routinely expect same day replies and aren???t willing to [...]

Mashable! has a review of Webjam, an alleged “Swiss Army knife” of Web 2.0 niftyness that might whet your appetite for making a web page, blog, and/or profile if you’re deficient of any significant code-editing skills. European in origin, Webjam consists of several tools, several moldable pages, and several others, all worth exploring, if only for the sake of getting down with some beta testing tomfoolery, albeit in a far cleaner fashion than your Play Doh days of yore.
Pete Cashmore [...]