July 22, 2007
Mashup Tools Frenzy
A week away from a daily play, and my feedreader now contains way too many unread messages. Prompted by this CNET News post on The battle of the mashup editors, I also realise that I probably haven't been keeping up with updates to the Google Mashup Editor or Microsoft Popfly since I played with them the day the invites originally came out... (aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh - not enough time to play with the big toys, let alone keep up with the little ones...........!)
So - top of the to do list is to catch up with feature releases from Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft Popfly and Google Mashup Editor (as well as the other various Google APIs, like the AJAX feed API).
Come to think of it, I haven't even played with IBM's QEDWIki at all, yet... or the Intel Mashmaker tool (though I guess access to that isn't available at the mo...).
As everyone seems to be releasing feed autodiscovery - at least, Yahoo Pipes and Google AJAX API both offer this now (as does this PHP library) - I feel I really should try to build something that makes use of this... the only question is, what? Something String'n'Glue related, maybe?
I'm also hoping that when the OpenLearn folks finally start moving the OpenLearn feeds from the dev server onto the public one, they'll make the feeds autodiscoverable... Although just what possibilities that will open up for feed related creativity, I'm not sure yet!
PS I notice that I get live suggestions from my Firefox search widget (at least with Google as the search engine).
It'd be really neat - particularly for navigational/known item queries, where you know the result you want to find - if below the bar in the drop down live suggestions it also gave the top three hits for the current query-in-progress, live search style, treating them as clickable links rather than search terms...
Posted by ajh59 at July 22, 2007 11:30 PM