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What's That: Mashups

What is a mashup? Put simply, a mashup combines a variety of online information - data, images, maps, products and so on - into one web application. But where did they come from and what do you do with them?

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WebDriven: Comprehensive Internet Services

WebDriven offers a comprehensive and complementary set of Web consulting and development services designed to help your organization be successful with your online communications. One of the things which we feel sets us apart is our process. We spend a significant amount of time up-front in the planning stages to help ensure everyone agrees on what needs to be built.

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Why WebDriven?

WebDriven grew out of the work Warner and I have done together at Capital Idea Ventures (CIV) for clients in the Washington DC area over the past several years. During lengthy discussions in 2006 we decided that given Warner's network of contacts in Boston and New England, expanding into the Boston area made sense. A new brand and a new company, WebDriven, was the result.

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Doesn't everyone need a blog?

According to blog monitor Technorati, a new blog is created every half-second or so. That means roughly half a million new blogs each week. While this level of growth may be hard to sustain, there is little question about the impact of the blogosphere on the flow of information and it serves as a kind of indicator for what is going on in the world (news, trends, etc).

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MySpace Goes to the Movies

With the launch of Trailer Park, MySpace now offers a "one-stop-shop" for movie trailers. True to the MySpace model, users can add trailers to their MySpace pages, view still photos or visit the MySpace page for a particular movie. Obvious shortcomings are a lack of basic information about the movie such as release date but our guess is the guys at MySpace will remedy that in short order.

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Google lets notes, photos to be added to mapping

With the popularity of Google Maps, now you can add your own notes, photos and YouTube videos to specific locations around the globe. You can decide to share your additions with just your friends or include them to be searchable from the Google Maps site. This is another mashup from Google that combines maps, media sharing and social networking aspects.So, next time you are at your favorite restaurant, snap a photo and upload it to Google Maps for all to see. (source: Bloomberg)

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Google with SMS flight data to your cell

Boston Globe
April 2, 2007

Google SMS is a service that allows you to send a simple text message out and receive detailed information back from Google on a variety of topics. You can perform searches, translate words into foreign languages, get directions and now, find out if your flight is on time and from which gate it is departing. It all starts with entering 466453 (Google) as the SMS number in your cell phone. Then send a message with a keyword and some detail after it:
AA 2111
Translate hello in French
Weather boston
Sushi 01760

You can learn more about Google’s SMS service at sms.google.com.

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