Feb 28, 2010
Best of Mashups
If the Mashup Awards are any indicator we are far from the future. I believe web application hybrids (or mashups) will mitigate, aggregate, and supply returns all our information retrieval needs when we eventually move away from paging through text-based preview links in a single channel of discovery. Wikipedia, feeds, and dynamic dashboards are training a new generation of digital natives to expect information to be composited onto one platform, and why shouldn’t it? And yet, although I’ve seen some stand out mashups this year, a majority of those getting press seem to extend off of Twitter. Snooze.
Here are my Mashup Awards, ending with the meta-Mashup to the third degree
Map of Amazon (hint: once you’re there double click)
