One Shining Mashup

Hello again. I was out all last week on vacation. More on that, specifically the "Disney Experience," in a future post.

As most of you know, college basketball is currently in "March Madness Mode" conducting its annual tournament to determine a champion. For as long as I can remember, at the end of the tournament, CBS has put together a video montage of photos and highlights from the tournament - game winning shots, tension-filled faces, cheerleaders cheering, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

This year they've added a new wrinkle in that you can go online and create your own video. Include only highlights from your team if you want. Make fun of that arch rival if you want.

It's a neat concept to engage the audience. Check it out at http://mashup.cbssports.com.

Mash up derby

At Wikipediavision you can watch as people around the world make updates to Wikipedia. Each notice includes a link to the subject where you can see what was just updated.

The concept is based on Flickrvision, where you can see new pictures as they are uploaded to the photo-sharing site. Pretty addictive.

These are both examples of Mashups. A mashup is when people take more than one application and mix them together. (Google Maps with Wikipedia and Flickr respectively in these cases).

Other examples of mashups include WeatherBonk, Pageflakes and the Wheel of Lunch.

A few good creative men

"We write ads or people die - You CAN'T handle a bigger logo!"