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Google to Unite Mapping Mashups

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-see-me-now dept.

jihadist writes "Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites."

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  1. Re:Mapplets not Apps by ronadams · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new Web 2.0 Buzzword Overlords.

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  2. Leviathon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's a Leviathon? I'm guessing either a bunch of sea serpents running a race, or a contest to see who can levitate the highest. So which is it?

  3. MODERATORS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mod parent up

  4. Dear Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could you please make a topic for all items that include the word 'mashup' so I can remove them all at once from the front page?

  5. Re:googlewank by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, it's no surprise Slashdot's readership has halved over the past year, as users migrate to better sites such as reddit and digg.

  6. Mashup by Exitar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did the word "Mashup" exist before "Web 2.0"?

    1. Re:Mashup by game+kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      To me, a mashup is two or more songs mixed together in a specific way...if anything.

      In either case I like that word about as much as "blogosphere".

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    2. Re:Mashup by dayjn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think mashup is a great word. It originally started as a cool synonym for music sampling and has proved flexible like lots of great popular terms, such as cool itself. There are lots of other newish words out now that are annoying, but not this one. But then again, such terms run the risk of being overused. Regardless, youngsters nowadays will probably say it lots (especially if they know that it bothers some grumpy older folk) and we all should get used to it!

    3. Re:Mashup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yep. I'm more familliar with Music Mashups. I have a collection of c64, Mod, and NES tunes "mashed-up" with popular music. Some of them are as old as 1999.