mashups

the mash-up ReVoLuTiOn ???

- What is mash-up …? Before last week, i've never heard about 'mash-up'. Maybe I'm not the only one...... so i've made some research on the Internet and found the following definition of “mash-up” on wikipedia : 'Mashup is originally a Jamaican term used to describe breaking something. Later it became used to describe an event (usually dancehall reggae) that has been done so well that it has been taken to another level. The term has been used in hip-hop especially in cities such as New York that has a high Jamaican population. '

For example, an application that was built from routines from multiple sources or a Web site that combines content and/or scripts from multiple sources is said to be a mashup. The term became popular in the 2005 time frame.
An audio recording that is a composite of samples from other recordings, usually from different musical styles.

Mashup can mean:
1/ Mashup (music), a musical genre of songs that consist entirely of parts of other songs
2/ Mashup (web application hybrid), a website or web application that combines content from more than one source
3/ Mashup (video), a video that is edited from more than one source to appear as one
… on the internet???
To sum up, a mash up is only a mixture of content or elements !
This new way of breaking rules, is also used on the internet. Moreover, on the Internet you can be more creative!!!!

- What are good examples?
1/ The HousingMaps.com site combines the site of the wanted ads CraigsList with the application Google Maps to allow the Internet users who wanted to buy an immovable property to show it in some clicks on a three-dimensional card. A combination of this two services (which already exists) created added value both for the publishers(editors) of the wanted ad who increase their (web)traffic, for the (final)users of the service who spare time and for the creator of the service who can hope to benefit from it.
2/ Set up as a competition, the first "Mashup Camp" was sponsored by Adobe, AOL, Sun, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and others. It was hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California in February 2006. The winning mashup was Podbop , which combined a concert event locator site with MP3 samples of the upcoming bands. Second place went to ChicagoCrime.org, which showed crime locations in Chicago by mashing up the crime data with Google Maps.

'6 brains for free'....

Just take a look at our wiki...
http://killerapp.metawiki.com/mw/lastmod

Sum up ...

three things I've discovered in this class?
- the 6 qualities to be a good internet user
- internet is the best and right way to learn english
- cybercriminality

what are 2 things that I found interesting?
Technics!!!!
- creation of a wiki and a blog
- technical problems

what is 1 thing I'd like to learn more about?
- how to create a podcast ?

Webtag : how works bimedia ???

Mobile phones have become everyday accessories in anyone’s life. They have turned into links to multimedia and data services. Mobile Tag was developed in partnership with Wiziway to simplify data input and to create an easy access to external content (paper, TV, outdoor ad, catalogue…).
Mobile Tag is an embedded application that can read tags . When end-users takes a picture of a tag, they can be automatically redirected to a specific service (Direct wap link/ http link, Vcard downloading)

Concretely, I am going to explain to you how works Web tag (how to 'read' a tag?????) :
- 1 er stage :
After having launched the MobileTag application (below to the left of the screen on the model Nokia 6680 ), you focus on the Tag with your camera phone. You don(t have to click, the mobile phont recognizes the image.

- 2nd stage: your mobile is automatically connected to the service. You only have to click on ‘OK’ button. that just mashes some seconds before downloading the electronic content (it may be a visit card).

- 3rd stage.
The visiting card is downloaded on the address book of your mobile. Name, first name, address, telephone… in one click everything goes into the mobile. And what works with one a visiting card also works with videos, photos of sounds, links Web....


The client application has been developed by Abaxia fo camera-phones.

Some french Newspaper have adopted this new technology : NEWZY