Posts Tagged with ‘mashups’

FriendFeed Spy – New Tool to Develop FriendFeed Addiction

Svetlana Gladkova

It is no surprise that once the blogosphere finds a fascination in something, more and more people will see this as an inspiration to create mashups based on our latest and greatest tools. And since FriendFeed is still one of the most discussed topics (especially on FriendFeed itself), it is no wonder that we will see more and more mashups in the coming weeks (or maybe months even, not sure about years).
Today's find is FriendFeed Spy - a nice [...]

Mobile Sandbox

2cworth

At the ITU telecom world event in HongKong, Microsoft kicked off its connected services sandbox; a way for developers to work with service providers to develop and test new kinds of offerings, fusing Web 2.0 with classical communications services.
Given that mobile phones outnumber PC’s, and many people expect that it would be the preferred way to access the web for most casual users, it does make sense to focus on such applications.
However, in the light of a recent announcement of [...]

Businesses Need Web 2.0

2cworth

What’s at the heart of Web 2.0? This isn’t a holistic definition, but among the key factors
- An ability to tag data or information in multiple ways
- Ways to share the information without changing the core, enabling many people to act on it.
- Linking it up to other pieces of data; or presenting it in different ways, including linking to location (geo maps), people or activities; commonly referred to as mashups.
If it’s a funny video or a personal profile, it’s [...]

Mashed Web 2.0 vs Mashed Potatoes

CJCM

I think mashed potatoes is more widely known and consumed by the world population than mashed Web 2.0. Just visit any Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets and you will see how many of them are enjoying mashed potato. But ask them about mashed Web 2.0… I wonder how their faces will turn.
Popular or not, mashup webs are gaining much popularity in the Web 2.0 world.

While typical mashed potatoes recipe primarily made up of… well… just potatoes (and salt, cream, butter, milk, [...]