Mashup Editors

Mashup is a kind of application that takes information from two or more open APIs and data source from many places on web ,to mix it together and form a single multi-functional application . Examples of mashups can be emessanger and meebo of which i've written in earlier posts. Such mashups can be created using mashup editors. In this post i've listed the top three online mashup editors.


Google mashup editor is a easy simple way to develop a web application or mashups using Google services like Google Earth , Google Maps , Google Base , etc. In a few lines of familiar code (like XML ,Jscript ,HTML , CSS) and one click of button, your mashup can be published to the world .This service also allows to integrate your feeds and manipulate them in one place.It also allows you to test your creation before publishing it .

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Yahoo says " Pipes is a composition tool to aggregate , manipulate ,mashup contents from around the web " . It allows you to remix favorite data sources ,create custom feeds by getting them together , sorting , translating and filtering and geocode (map the feeds to view on an online map ) them .It uses a drag and drop environment letting you to compose great applications with minimum code knowledge . Thus making it much more flexible than Google Mashup Editor .You can check out a free usage demo here

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Microsoft terms Popfly as " A fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications. " The product allows you to map any kind of information so that it can be shared with friends . Its a very user friendly and powerful source to step into small game and web creation .

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