Monday, January 22, 2007
Mashups Go Mainstream
It was bound to happen. Since sites like YouTube, Revver, and Flickr started providing API access allowing reasonably easy embedding of functionality and content into other sites, we have seen some amazing mashups. With a little programming know-how, some pretty sophisticated systems can be built at a fraction of the cost.
It was bound to happen. New services are starting to pop up like OpenKapow and QEDWiki. These services allow folks with even less programming knowledge to build their own mashups. OpenKapow advertises:
On openkapow web developers can freely download and use our RoboMaker visual scripting tool, which allows for an easy point and click interface to mashup anything on the web that has a URL. RoboMaker creates robots that can be deployed, shared and run for free non-commercial use as REST, RSS, ATOM or HTML services on openkapow. Everyone that has ever tried RoboMaker has been amazed by its power.
Tools like these make it even easier for arts non-profits to start playing in the Web 2.0/Mashup sandbox.
It was bound to happen.
