Category Archive: Mashups

Dec
12

IE10 Platform Preview

Exciting news for all web developers and mashup freaks: Microsoft just released its fourth overall preview of their Internet Explorer 10. Especially aimed at you, new features and better  HTML5 functionalities improve possibilities for the creation of Web applications. However, there is one caveat: The new release only works on the Windows 8 preview release which …

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Aug
17

Create Your Own Mashup

For those of you thinking about creating your own mashups, we can get you started with some easy steps through the process. This post is not so much about the coding itself but about what youll need to think about before getting started. First, you should think about the subject that you want to address …

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Jul
29

Real Time 3D – Delivered to Your Screen

Computer Scientists at the University of Southern California are working on an application embedding real-time data in online maps. What they call geo-immersion is a technology that will go significantly further than previous generations of mashups. Based on everyday on-line mapping services like Google Maps, the folks at South Carolina had the idea to capture information from the real world and render it into virtual data …

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Jul
12

All About Mashups

Since Popfly was mainly a Mashup tool, we should devote some time to the concept before starting off: A mashup (a term borrowed from the musical blending of two or more songs) is essentially an online application that lends services from third party applications and uses these services for its own purposes. The benefits are …

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