What makes mashups different then web applications is that mashups use data from more than one source to create a completely new web application. The mashups I chose were:
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Similarity Web is an Amazon mashup that takes information that amazon displays on an item for "customers who bought this item also bought" and displays it in an interesting visual format with links back to the Amazon website. I thought this mashup would be useful at work to help patrons find similar books based on their favorite authors and other books they have liked. I have tried it on a few books and found it is a little slow at times but I still like it. Also sometimes if you enter the title of the book nothing shows up, but putting in the author's name will make the book show up. You can also search for other items besides books - any category that Amazon sells. I will continue to use this mashup at work and recommend it to patrons.
Dumpr is a cool image editor/Flickr mashup combo. You create an account and can use photos on Flickr or photos you upload to the site and create new images with different "effects". I spent several hours just trying out the different effects on some photos I had taken:
This is a photo I took and modified with the Rubik's Cube effect.
This effect allows you to take an existing photo and show it like it is an image in an art gallery.
This is called the Brilliant Circle effect. It was from a photo I had taken of cow parsnip and fireweed.
Dumpr is very easy to use. You save your finished photos in your account. You also have the option of saving them to your computer, sending them as email or uploading the image to Flickr. There is also options to publish the photos on various blogs, social networking sites and news aggregators. I will continue to use Dumpr because it is a lot of fun!
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