Internet mash-ups take the most innovative applications on the Internet and combine them into one surprising and new service. www.programmableweb.com features thousands of such websites.
One of my favorite Internet mash-ups is weatherbonk.com. It features API's from almost a dozen websites including information from Google Maps and Google AdWords, several Yahoo applications including Yahoo Traffic, NASA, and the NOAA Weather Service. Not only is the convenient and highly visual weather information relevant and interesting, allowing me to instantly to check the regional weather of San Francisco, my home state: Arizona, the East Coast and abroad, but it provides links and illustrates other information as well. I can easily define what web cams I want to use to report my weather service and by clicking on one tag I can view a detailed 7 - day weather.com report. Check out the link here: http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/index.jsp .
Another cool site is liveplasma.com. While it only uses information from Amazon E-Commerce, it vividly illustrates a web of commerce. For example, if I type in my favorite band: No Doubt a large pink orb appears with three golden circles appear around the No Doubt orb to signify relevance. An intricate and colorful web of orbs representing related artists and bands with varying sizes appears next. The user is able to click on any orb to learn more about that artist or band, and a column on the left provides a direct link to that item's page at the Amazon.com store. You can also search by movie title, actor, director, and country. I like this website because it is a highly visual way to shop. It take a conventional experience and makes it feel new and cutting-edge. Check out the link here: http://www.liveplasma.com/ .
One of my favorite Internet Mash-Ups I discovered recently is called "If I dig a very deep hole, where do I stop?" Which of course proves to answer that age-old question. As it turns out, digging a hole through the earth's core doesn't quite take me to China. The website uses Google Maps technology to map the world. By clicking on your point of origin on the world map, the site calculates where a direct hole would emerge. A hole in my family's backyard in Paradise Valley, Arizona leads my to somewhere off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. I like the website because it's simple and illustrates an answer to a fascinating and fun question. Check out the link here: http://map.pequenopolis.com/ .
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