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Title:

Mashups: Easy Enough For Normal People?

Your vote:
Yes No
Organizer:
Kevin Merritt, blist
Description:
Everyone agrees that data/api mashups are powerful and compelling - and that non-technical people should be able create them - but to date every product intended to open generalized mashup creation to non-engineers has been a big flop - What are the UI & technical innovations needed to solve this?
Questions
Answered:
  1. What are APIs and Feeds?
  2. What are mashups?
  3. What have been the most popular mashups to date?
  4. Who makes mashups right now?
  5. Why don't normal people create mashups?
  6. What's been tried already to make mashups easy?
  7. Why haven't easy mashup creator tools taken off?
  8. What UI innovation is necessary to democratize mashup creation?
  9. What are some interesting consumer mashup ideas?
  10. What are some interesting business mashup ideas?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Web / Interface Design
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
on 27/8/08
My goodness it is a piece of cake with tools like clipmarks and Orchestrate (http://grid.orch8.net/extractions/grab). I dont see web programming is any difficult, it is click click and drag henceforth......
on 7/4/09
Awesome.
on 5/5/09
Great article
Awesome
Great
on 30/10/09
I dont see web programming is any difficult, it is click click and drag henceforth......
on 8/11/09
Non-technical people need easier means to make any type of data mashup.
on 20/11/09
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