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Have You Tried Intel's Mash Maker?
Have any of you tried out Intel's Mash Maker?
Kate Green of Technology Review explains how it works in her post, Web Mashups Made Easy:
"Called Mash Maker, the project aims to let people use their ordinary Web browsers to combine information from different sites. If, for example, you are looking at apartments on Craigslist, you can easily add information about nearby restaurants from Yelp, a recommendation site, essentially augmenting the data on the Craigslist page. With another few clicks of a button, you can put the apartments and Yelp listings on a Google map, which will also appear within the Craigslist page. The next time you visit the Craigslist page, you can reopen the mashup, and it will automatically use new data from the site."
According to Robert Ennals' March 18th post on the Intel Software Network Blog, The Mash Maker Widget API is Now Open. You can watch a video of Robert talking about Mash Maker above, or on YouTube.
If you've used the Mash Maker to make a mashup with social impact, let us know!
Thanks to David Collin for the tip.
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Well, honestly, I haven’t
Honestly, I haven't tried yet this Intel's Mash Maker, this is the first time that I heard it. And I think this is an interesting one. Hopefully, I will have the chance to try this. No doubt that in today's modern world, computer have a lot of advantages to all of us together with the help of the different operating system that we used now such as the Windows XP. XP was the Windows version that cemented Microsoft as the absolute titan of computer operating systems. XP will be ending mainstream support April 2009. They will offer customer support until 2014 but they just won't be offering any warranties on it. They haven't been shipping XP to stores since fall 2008, when they launched the Vista operating system. Well, there isn't too much use in getting online cash advances to buy XP anymore. The operating system had some conflicts with Intel processors, and it was known for being susceptible to viruses and worms, which is part of what Vista is supposed to correct. Since it's on the way out, there isn't too much to be done to repair credit with any detractors of XP. Read more at http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/04/14/mainstream-support-xp...
Browser Mashups for Social Change
Britt - Thanks so much for sharing this! The MashMaker project looks awesome! A more in-depth YouTube interview can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ-pwVvHuds
Also, it seems like MashMaker has a large browser integration component. Transforming the Internet browsing experience has a lot of potential for mashing data for social change. See therealcosts & Oil Standard for examples.