Lasttube: mixing Last.fm & YouTube, again

Janko Röttgers, author of “Mix, Burn & RIP” (sort of german “standard” literature on the digital music revolution) wrote a Giga-OM-post on LastTube, another take on YouTube vs. Last.fm, questioning the economic eligibility of mashed up webapps. I had similar thoughts when Google released My Maps few weeks ago… like those niche mapping-apps’, last.tv & [...]

some cool pipes

people - even less tech-savvy ones - are starting to create all kinds of interesting Pipes…

automated babelfish-translation (english -> german) of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code show-notes
P2P-Blog utlitizes a custom del.icio.us-tag to keep track of all blog-posts you have commented on
this pipe mashes data from Yahoo! Local with flickr to find localized imagest
Nick Bradbury’s YouTunes [...]

Yahoo! Pipes unveiled

wow, the whole web is singing the praises of Yahoo! Tubes Pipes, a new mashup-service announced earlier today. unfortunately, the Pipes-servers haven’t been responding for most of the evening, Yahoo’s engineers have either underestimated the impact of this announcement or the ressources a service which could be described best as universal RSS-mashup-engine might suck up. [...]

Yahoo! OurCity - Localized Mashup

Yahoo!’s mashup OurCity retrieves location-based data from various Yahoo!-properties. photos from flickr, bookmarks from del.icio.us and events from Upcoming together with news-clips, blogs & podcasts draw an appropriate picture of the city. currently in early beta, the service is available for Delhi & Bangalore only.

(screenshot courtesy of GigaOM)

remember-the-milk vs. Google Calendar

at first glance remember the milk is just another web2.0-ish to-do manager (other popular options include Basecamp’s Ta-da Lists and Voo2do). though it features a clean interface, options for publishing and sharing to-do lists as well as a Google Maps-mashup, what really makes it interesting to me is the integration with Google Calendar that was [...]

mashup: Snapp Radio

Janko Röttgers from netzwelt.de discovered snappradio.com, a cool mashup developed at Sun Labs. snappradio generates flickr-slideshows accompanying the music currently playing on last.fm by matching tags between both services. as Janko points out, this works quite well for better-known bands but might also bring out funny results (like getting aeroplane-shots from North Western Alliance [=airline] [...]

MapLib: customized Google Maps

MapLib is a very nice mashup allowing to view any uploaded bitmap through Google Maps’ AJAX user-interface. customized maps support markers and can be embedded on any website. interestingly, Manfred Wuits (yumyum) demonstrated a very similar technique a month ago at BarCamp Vienna (check the video-feed of his demo).

News At Seven: 100% artifical news-broadcast

wow, this looks like some awesome patchwork of technology! News At Seven is a video news-show, 100% automatically generated from content-bits all over the net. claimed to work totally autonomous, the engine fetches news-stories from various blogs and websites, runs the text through speech-synthesis, mixes it with matching still-images and video-clips and add’s a Halflife-character [...]

Google: gadgets & mashups

as of yesterday, more than 1.200 Google Gadgets formerly restricted to Google Desktop are now free for use on any website you want. the widget-collection includes modules for streaming-video, inline-chat, flickr- or iTunes-integration as well as loads of - more-or-less useless - eyecandy.
more interesting: Google launched an unbranded search-frontend at searchmash.com earlier this week. looks [...]