Een interessant artikel op denieuwereporter.nl over mashups:

Mashups zijn innovatieve websites die twee of meer bestaande, externe databronnen op het internet combineren, met als resultaat nieuwe informatie, dikwijls gepresenteerd met een verrassende interface.

Voor een lijst van mashups check programmableweb. Interessant zijn zeker:

Related to del.icio.us, flickr and wikipedia:

• bashr.com - A project that bashes together Wikipedia, flickr and del.icio.us
• flickr related tag browser
• reddiggdot.us - reddit, digg, slashdot and del.icio.us combined
• rel8r.com - An experimental discovery tool that searches tags from various social network-type sites including Flickr, Technorati, and Upcoming
• thumlicio.us - Use thumblicious to quickly preview the most popular sites bookmarked on del.icio.us via thumbnail screenshots.
• flickrfling - Innovative prototype for exploring Flickr photos. Point the application at a feed, like CNN, it then renders the news in photos by matching tagged photos to words from the news.
• livemarks - see del.icio.us bookmarks added as a live stream
• digglicious.com - a live stream which combines digg.com and del.icio.us
• flickrgraph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com
• flitter - Mashup of Amazon (for album/book details), Audioscrobbler (for related artists), Flickr (for tagged photos), del.icio.us (for tagged links), Blogdigger (for media files) and Feedster (for matching weblog posts).

Music:

• upcomingscrobbler - a blend of last.fm and upcoming.org. Get notified of groups you listen and have a concert near you!
• noesbueno.com/musical/ - another blend of last.fm and upcoming.org
• musipedia.org - The Open Music Encyclopedia, uses Amazon Alexa to provide the ability to search the web by melody. Give the engine a keyword or melodic contour, and it returns similar music.

Various:

• urbanhitchhiker - Ridesharing site where users can store and search for rides all on a map. All contact between users is anonymous.
• garbagescout - The New York City streets are full of interesting and potentially useful things that have been thrown out. If you see something good, snap a pic, send to Garbagescout where others can go and get it. They should really make something like this for Amsterdam. I already found so many useful and funky things on the street!

Related to news:

• taglines - Search mashup combining multiple services include news and images. Tag cloud has dynamic Ajax-style pop-up with embedded searching.
• tagcloud.com - TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag’s link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.
• newzingo.com - current tag cloud of popular articles on newsvine.com

Mashups relating to geomapping blogs and news (yeah, it’s a work deviance ;)):

Blogs:

• http://blosh.net finds blogs mentioning locations and displays them on a map.
• http://feedmap.net/BlogMap The EVDB api combined with MS MapPoint creates a mini-map (Feedmap) showing bloggers and events nearby a particular blogger
• http://www.geobloggers.com : google maps + flickr photos. It also consumes del.icio.us for geotagged bookmarks and the upcoming.org for US events, which it then geocodes.
• http://www.feedmap.net/blogexplorer find and browse blogs by locations with MapPoint maps and feedmap.
• http://gfeedmap.afraid.org combines google maps and feedmap.net to display the location of websites/blogs on a google map. It also features blogmaps - badge sized maps for websites.

News:

• http://www.benedictoneill.com/content/newsmap see where the latest news is happening in the uk
• http://globalcoordinate.com/map.aspx Mix and match news, weather, NASA satellite pix, Flickr images and other datasources on a google maps background. Good map UI and useful data.
• http://www.parsec.it/geoworldnews - The latest worldwide stories from the Washington post plotted on a google maps sattelite image.
• http://www.81nassau.com/apnews - A simple mashup that plits stories from the AP National News RSS feed on a google map. The Yahoo! Geocode API is used to convert the location of each story to a lat/long point. Currently only the US/National news stories are plotted.
• http://duvinci.com/projects/world/ Color is used to represent newsworthiness of news stories from the Washington Post RSS news feed plotted on a Google Map.
• http://www.wereporters.com/geonews.htm Track news as it happens.
  Google maps + google news rss feed
• http://poly9.viavirtualearth.com/Poly9/MSNBC Map using MS virtual
  earth to visualize news by geographic location

Alright, the list of interesting mashups got a little out of hand, i just love mashups … it’s what i do Remix, remaster, release!