#2 Mashup mousetrap mishap?
I feel as though I've been trapped too long looking at the huge range of websites using mashups. It was an enlightening exit to take , but I felt I had better escape and get back to blog business. Some of my discoveries include:
- Twitter seems to dominate this path. Mashups to help Twitter users (twitters? twitterers? tweeters? twits??) with their tweets abound. Everything from how to convert tweets to SMS shorthand or to translate them to another language. Twitterfall highlights the latest tweet trends & allows searches on what those in your suburb are tweeting about.
- Photos also get a lot of attention on the mashup motorway. I saw a lot of creative sites making use of them. I particularly liked gimme shiny where the mashing up of the photography & art communities (using Flickr & deviantART along with the bookmarking of FFFFound ) made for fascinating viewing. Pixelpipe showed another way for photos & videos to be shared on social networking and photo websites.
- Maps certainly direct the action on a lot of sites. I saw many inventive examples of Google Maps use - from checking on real estate in the area to the nearest coffee shops. There were sites combining it with recommendations and reminiscences of town hot spots. Another interesting combination was spot story where maps, photos and experiences of favourite "spots" are shared. (Perhaps this is an avenue for libraries to encourage client participation with their favourite books or spots where they like to read or spots in the library or other local spots that they like.)
- Books do have some mashed up locations. Amazon.com appears to feature heavily in these collaborations. Reading radar is a simple combination of it with the New York Times bestseller list. zoomii books is another example where a mashup is used to bring the experience of browsing bookstore shelves to life while shopping online.
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