Everything u need 2 know about mash-ups !
A mash up is an hybrid application designed from various external applications, like a patchwork.
The word mash-up comes from pop music and video, where it means mixing music from various artists and styles (sampling).
Examples:
One of the examples given is the use of Google Maps to establish a map of crimes in Chicago. Mash up is often used for geolocalisation. For example, the website Panoramio is a website of pictures from everywhere and everyone, and where you can navigate via a GoogleMaps & GoogleEarth generated map.
Travelistic is aother good example of a mash-up. It includes the video technology such as You Tube and the Google maps technology.
Risks and benefits?
The risks of this kind of activity is that people tend to be very enthusiastic about mash-ups, espacially investors like business angels. They believe that they can make a great amont of money with those concepts.
Unfortunately, most of the time, mash-ups startups don't find their audience. Investing in this kind of activity is not safe : the risk is to loose a lot of money.
Examples:
One of the examples given is the use of Google Maps to establish a map of crimes in Chicago. Mash up is often used for geolocalisation. For example, the website Panoramio is a website of pictures from everywhere and everyone, and where you can navigate via a GoogleMaps & GoogleEarth generated map.
Travelistic is aother good example of a mash-up. It includes the video technology such as You Tube and the Google maps technology.
Risks and benefits?
The risks of this kind of activity is that people tend to be very enthusiastic about mash-ups, espacially investors like business angels. They believe that they can make a great amont of money with those concepts.
Unfortunately, most of the time, mash-ups startups don't find their audience. Investing in this kind of activity is not safe : the risk is to loose a lot of money.
Set up as a competition, the first "Mashup
Camp" was sponsored by Adobe, AOL, Sun, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and
others. It was hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
California in February 2006. The winning mashup was Podbop
(www.Podbop.org), which combined a concert event locator site with MP3
samples of the upcoming bands. Second place went to ChicagoCrime.org
(www.chicagocrime.org), which showed crime locations in Chicago by
mashing up the crime data with Google Maps
(from answers.com)
Another link : http://flickrsudoku.com/
A Mash-up between Flickr & a Sudoku game, pretty fun !
Mash-up ideas?
Here you can find great mash-up ideas. Allthought the website is mocking mash-ups and web 2.0 concepts, it can give you useful ideas anyway :-)
A mash-up idea could be useful for our e-communications class: why not mash up all the tools we use in class (MSN window, webcam, blog and wiki) in one space? It could be like a virtual e-learning desk, with the possibility to add videos and show online stuff in live.
But it's almost talking about web 3.0!
