Week 9 : Mashups

Mashups are hybrid web applications that take features from one application (like Flickr) and mash it up with another (like a mapping program). With this combination, for example, you get Mappr.Wikipedia offers a slightly more detailed explanation.New mashups come out, literally, every day.

Some examples include image generators. Here are a couple of examples we created using big huge labs.
Another popular mashup tool is Google maps. Have a look at this example from the British Library called London: a life in Google maps. Voicethread is another type of mashup tool which could be really useful for adding information to our digital objects. Another example of combining Google Maps and historic maps is a mashup of César-François Cassini's 18th century map of France (the 182 sheets of the map took Cassini over thirty years to complete). Thanks to GeoGarage you can now view all 182 sheets on their Cassini Map.

Explore: Keir Clarke has developed Star Viewer using the new 'sky' option in the Google Maps API:

Discover: Using Big huge labs, create a mashup and add it to your blog. Hint it will save the image to your desktop so you will need to upload it to your blog from there. Blog about how we could use mashups.

Adventure: Find another example of a mashup. Blog about how appropriate it would be for work.