What it Means to be a Mashup 57
An anonymous reader writes "IBM DevWorks has provided us with an introductory article that helps define what it means to be a mashup. In addition to just defining what a mashup really is the author also delves into what they do for the community at large and where they may take us in the near future. From the article: 'Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0.'"
maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:3, Funny)
mash up. v. To take elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music and combine them to make a new song. n. A song comprised of elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music.
2. I'm in the middle of mashing-up songs by Tom Jones and Michael Jackson. (verb usage)
Re:maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:1)
Lash-up (Score:2)
In engineering that is called a 'lash-up', i.e. hurredly modifying an existing design in an improvised fashion often by using modified parts from another existing design. Windows is a good example and Linux isn't guiltless either.
Re:maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:1)
Re:maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:2)
That's debatable.
Most mash-ups that I've heard I would much rather listen to the songs serially and in their entireties.
Re:maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:1)
1. Your personal taste, however evolved (???) is not the subject
2. In many cases I might agree with you. But mashup is an emerging art. And it beats Shitney every time.
I don't like it when corporations try to be "cool" by adopting slang. It's like if your grandma started wearing low-rider jeans with a white sequined belt.
Re:maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:2)
Every time you say ?! But, but
"Oops I did it again" mashed into "Papa don't preach" might be amusing!
Re:maybe another term is appropriate? (Score:2)
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Mish Mash (Score:5, Insightful)
I didn't manage to learn any more from this article that the Slashdot summary didn't provide.
Although there are sections describing what each tehnology is, and how it would be used, the summaries are vague, and lack any real content. I have written similar non-technical summaries for executive types, and it looked vaguely similar to this.
Reading the README of any AJAX application will tell you 80% of what the IBM article goes into.
The only information I can as being useful is the resource list cited at the end of the article.
Re:Mish Mash (Score:3, Funny)
Where is slashdot going when people actually start to RTFA?
Mashup are Fool's Gold? More mashup articles. (Score:2)
This includes:
Mashups are fool's gold? [slashgeo.org], a ZDNet article.
Making money from mashups [slashgeo.org], a Search Engine Watch article.
The fatal flaw of Mashups [slashgeo.org], another ZDNet article.
Mapping a Revolution with Mashups [slashgeo.org], a CNET article.
And so on...
I thought it was quite clear (Score:2)
Re:Listen you GNU/Linux commie terrorist (Score:1)
Wow (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:1)
Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wow (Score:2)
I'm so behind the times.
I thought that everytime I heard, 'new breed of applications', 'aggregation' and 'asynchronous XML data exchange', I was sposed to take a drink...
Re:Wow (Score:2)
Or (Score:3, Informative)
Mashup 2.0 (Score:4, Insightful)
Web 2.0! Bubble 2.0! Crash 2.0! Recession 2.0!
Enough with the 2.0 already.
Re:Mashup 2.0 (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Mashup 2.0 (Score:2)
Absolutely, Web 2.0 is so yesterday. We need to start Web 3.0
*ducks*
Re:Mashup 2.0 (Score:1)
-1, Troll (Score:4, Insightful)
what kind of nonsense is this?!?!?! (Score:2, Insightful)
mashup (mash up) V. 1. to get wrecked on drugs of some description. 2. to have violence visited on one's person.
usage: "we were right in the middle of one hell of a mashup and i fell and broke my arm."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ma
Re:what kind of nonsense is this?!?!?! (Score:1)
Buzzword Alert! (Score:2, Funny)
8/10 ******** (Score:3, Interesting)
However, there is scope for something interesting here. The 'Web 2.0' thing, and I'm including most of the 'semantic web' in that, is the first example of a groupthink disaster growing and evolving from nothing in the web age. I know there were a few silly ideas (set-top boxes and the like) before, but Web 2.0 has grown in a truly organic grass-roots fashion and could provide valuable insights into why sensible people collectively influence each other to make mistakes.
I'm not volunteering to read through the history of Web 2.0 articles to do that, though, I must admit.
The Semantic Web is not Web 2.0 (Score:2)
The Semantic Web is entirely different. It has been going on, quietly but steadily, for at least 7-8 years now, and is beginning to yield some useful res
Re:The Semantic Web is not Web 2.0 (Score:2)
Well, I did say I was only including most of the Semantic Web. RSS is useful, for instance. On the other hand, RSS is not much to show for 7 year's work, especially when the actual 'semantic web' aspects of it tend not to be used -- 'author' as a string name rather than a reference to an author record, etc.
The W3C may be well-defined but the trouble is that they are a standards-creating group and that's exactly what their activity consists of. If they could restrict themselves to creating _one_ standard
So why not... (Score:2)
Re:So why not... (Score:2)
What the hell does that mean? Can you give more details and an example?
Sure (Score:2)
Rather than you reading a document and extracting keywords or the "topic", the computer does it.
Rather than you looking at a picture and identifying the people depicted, the computer does it.
It's getting the computer to do the things that we are too lazy to do: annotate the artifacts that we want to be able to retrieve later.
We have really shiny infrastructres with Web Services and SOA and brokers and all sorts of fun stuff that is all absolutely useless unless you pay a bunch of people t
Where I come from a Mashup ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where I come from a Mashup ... (Score:1)
What a clustermashup (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What a clustermashup (Score:1)
Bingo! (Score:2)
what it means to rename (Score:2, Informative)
Re:what it means to rename (Score:2, Interesting)
Music mash-up: 32 songs in 5 minutes (Score:1)
There is another definition of a mash-up, also much more interesting:
"Combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical epiphanies that add up to considerably more than the sum of their parts." (Wikipedia)
Check out this example by DJ Shane 54:
http://www.mixedinkey.com/downloads/Shane_54_Mixed _In_Key_demo.mp3 [mixedinkey.com]
Danger Mouse's "Gray
Web 2.0? I'm already on Web 3.0! (Score:2)