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Spicypipes launched today
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At Meyshan world we are very happy to launch SpicyPipes the creative Mashup. SpicyPipes will be totally different from any existing Mashup in the crowded Mashup web world. The vision behind SpicyPipes is to create innovative and creative Mashup that will be useful for your daily life, and SpicyPipes would allow its user to create personalize online Mashup in seconds, where they can use the created Mashup for personal use and to share it others through web 2.0 tagging.
In the world of Internet design and media, the term Mashup takes on a completely different meaning. Generally speaking, Mashup refers to the idea of taking content from different sources and merging it together to create an unique online experience. A small component is added to the host website, and it them seamlessly integrates information into the website. Typically, content from a third party is used via an API, or public interface.
There’s a current industry trend in which big name websites like Yahoo, Amazon and Google are offering access to their public databases and live content through the use of their publicly available programming interfaces, or API’s. Programmers can use the API’s to gather and parse data from these sites, and then incorporate that data into their own applications. The result is a new breed of website — fully integrated hybrids containing both new data and re-purposed data, all presented in refreshing and unexpected way
With the Mashup craze, several companies and independent programmers have started creating tools and programs to make Mashup creation easy, even for the novice programmer and web designer.
And that’s the cool thing about mashups: they exhibit a new and totally creative way of using data on the web. Mashups can be anything from toys and simple games to tools and applications that you use every day. The best mashups achieve a level of visual poetry that approaches true art.
Probably the most famous brand name in the world of mashups is Flickr. The photo storage and sharing site, which is owned by Yahoo, offers a flexible API that can accept calls and return results for tags, photos, user names, contacts, and even the nebulous popularity ranking called “interestingness.” The Flickr API also has several wrappers written by third party developers that make it usable within other programming environments such as Flash, PHP, python, Java, Perl and Ruby. There’s even a book about Flickr Hacks.
After a small amount of searching, I found quite a few Mashup programs and tools, each one seemingly having more features then the previous one.
Dapper seems to be favorite out of all online Mashup tools, mainly because it literally takes Mashup technology to the next level. You can literally use any type of information online for literally any purpose as long as you have the creative juices to come up with it. As Dapper puts it on their blog: “Using Dapper, any web page becomes a LEGO block, which you can arrange and manipulate in any way you like.”
If you are familiar with programming, you can use Dapper’s raw programming languages to create your Mashup. If you are unable to program using the raw language, then it is still easy to create Mashups using their creation tools.
dapper also offers a feature for website owners to set up their websites as content areas. Once the website owner sets up the website as a content website, others using or setting up Mashups are able to freely use their content.
Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
Here’s a list of the ten of the most useful video mashups from yahoo pipes to date from blogger Janko Roettgers
- Last.fm meets Youtube. This mashup searches Youtube for videos of the last ten tracks you played on Last.fm.
- Youtunes. Searches YouTube for videos of the iTunes Top 10 music downloads.
- MP3 blog videos. Scours YouTube for videos of tracks that are popular at the Hype Machine and elbo.ws.
- Rotten Tomato Tubes. Finds trailers for movies recently mentioned on Rottentomatoes.com. Very cool because it also shows you lots of fan creations.
- Coming soon trailers. Aggregates new movie trailers from Apple.com and Google Video.
- Uber Tube. This mashup combines all of YouTube’s site-wide RSS feeds into one giant video maelstrom.
- Multi-site video search. Searches YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, Yahoo Video, Dailymotion, Break and Grouper at the same time. Works best for rare search terms – or people with too much time on their hands.
- Torrent Search. Scan Isohunt, Torrentspy, Mininova and BTJunkie simultaneously for your favourite flicks public domain downloads.
- TV series downloader. Directly links to Mininova torrents of a TV show of your choice. Of course we believe that our readers will only use this for C-SPAN content.
- NewTeeVee by keyword. Number ten on our list is a bit of a bonus: Get all the NewTeeVee.com stories for a keyword of your choice. Great for setting up alerts – or stalking Ze Frank.
Developers who belong to the openkapow community will have access to RoboMaker, an intuitive and powerful visual scripting environment to create Robots. All Robots developed by the openkapow community will be accessible through the Robot Gallery, a common repository on the openkapow site, where they can easily be reused by other, either as a standalone component, or in the context of a full mashup.
Data Mashups is a similar web tool, allowing its user to easily create their own online Mashups. Unlike Dapper, which gives you the creative ability to use Mashups for any purpose that you see fit, Data Mashups focuses more on creation of enterprise portals for companies.
Data Mashups makes it easy to a business owner to gather and present information to their employees. The employees may use this information in any way they see fit, without the hassle of having to search and find such information.
Jackbe’s Jackbuilder also focuses on creating business portals. Jackbuilder is entirely AJAX based, allowing the creation of REA’s, or “Rich Enterprise Applications.”
Grazr is another Mashup application with a little twist. Instead of focusing on creativity or enterprise situations, it focuses on allowing you to “graze” RSS feeds, without having to actually subscribe to them. If you have dealt with RSS feeds in the past, you know how difficult and tedious subscribing and maintaining them gets.
When you start looking into Mashup applications and programs, you must remember that this is still a relatively new concept. What you can accomplish with Mashup technology now is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. I foresee sometime in the near future, when Mashup are used by every IT department.
Here is the some of the interesting mashup we saw, the programmableweb has the huge list mashup created world wide, dont forget to visit that.
Flash Earth is an experimental application that uses satellite and aerial imagery from online mapping websites without official content
Presented for your entertainment is a Google Maps mashup with eBay’s API and, newly added this Summer of 2006, U.S. Census data for housing & occupancy.
Trippermap.com is a web service that allows you to put a flash based world map on your own website or blog. Trippermap will then automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Trippermap, on your own website.
It’s as simple as tagging your photos with a city and country name
Streampad is an Internet audio player.
You can:- Listen to your own music from anywhere in the world
- Stream concerts from the Internet Archive
- Tune in to great music from around the web
- Create your own playlists and share them on your own site
- See what your friends are listening to
Web Monkey has a detailed article on Mashup. Now, launch from Google that’s sure to go down well: MyMaps, rolled out in the last few hours, lets you create your own personalized maps within Google Maps.
You can mark your favorite places, draw shapes to represent areas and lines to represent journeys, publish your map publicly and share it with friends. Playing around with it a few moments ago, I noticed a very cool feature: support for rich media like videos from YouTube and Google Video.
But in another sense, it’s a shame that Google would launch such a product: startups like Platial and Frappr, not to mention thousands of smaller sites, have built businesses around social maps (provided by Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or both). By providing its own service, Google has instantly killed off at least a few hundred of those mashed-up tools and every company today, starting mashups should to take this into considering this could happen to them to soon to.
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