An interesting post on Mashup Makers
Stan Schroeder at Mashable.com wrote a comprehensive post comparing the different mash makers - Mashups: Mashup Maker Smackdown. It is an interesting read similar to Jay Neely’s More Signal, Less Noise: The Power of RSS Mashups. Schroeder puts together and side-by-side the following mashmakers: Yahoo! Pipes, Microsoft Popfly, Google Mash Up Tools, Intel’s Mash Maker, IBM QED Wiki, Dapper, Teqlo, Proto, Data Mashups, and OpenKapow.
Mashups is defined as a website that combines content different sources and put them together into a integrated experience. The sources of information used by mashups cam be grouped into three Application programming Interface (API), Screen scraping and of most interest for us is webfeeds - RSS and Atom.
Schroeder gives the reader a wide view of the present Mashup landscape.
In the latter part of the post Schroeder wrote:
This bunch of tools, although all created with a similar purpose - to help people create mashups - aren’t really competing with each other. Instead, they’re answering to a very wide variety of different needs … each of them will probably get a following based solely on their quality, ease of use and feature set … It may not be a revolution just yet … but it’s a chance for more people than ever to make their ideas a reality with less cost and effort than ever before.
It is an interesting time for people who love and use information. Mashups are interesting because they enable users, like you and me, to define and craft information.
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