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Intel Releases Mashups for the Masses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the applying-data-to-the-situation-for-the-win dept.

News_and_info writes "Intel has released an online tool called Mash Maker with the intent of allowing anyone to create mashups. They offer some training on how to use it, but the tool is fairly easy to use out of the gate. I see it more as a rudimentary semantic browser. From the article: 'Mashups have still not really penetrated the mainstream. My mother is not using mashup sites, and she is definitely not creating them. Even if there was a mashup out there that did exactly what she wanted, the chances are that she wouldn't know it existed, and would be confused by it if she tried to use it ... With Mash Maker, mashups are part of the normal browsing experience. As you browse the web, the Mash Maker toolbar displays buttons representing mashups that Mash Maker thinks you might want to apply to your current page.'"

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  1. Joyous Day! by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! Now I can have Dictionary.com give me definitions of the names of all the streets in my town via Google Maps. Just what I need!

  2. Re:What's a "mashup"? by 427_ci_505 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Web technology flexibility amazes me. Now we can boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew...etc.

  3. Re:Mashups are... by ystar · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't need wikipedia to whore karma this time. Imagine reading two or more websites at once, maybe even with some ajaxy instant messaging stuff, all kind of mixed together.

    This is useful because you don't get excess cheeto dust in your keyboard by having to type in multiple URLs.

  4. Re:Legal issue.... by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, saying that things are illegal when they aren't is illegal.

  5. Re:What's REALLY needed by springbox · · Score: 5, Funny

    That didn't work for "podcast" ..

  6. Re:more info in the summary by Simulant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not sure... Last month I thought it was sort of a remix using multiple songs. Something must have happened while I was on vacation.

  7. Re:Legal issue.... by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Actually, saying that things are illegal when they aren't is illegal."
    Seems like you just broke the law in your little fantasy reality :-)
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  8. They did the mash... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they did the website mash
    The website mash
    It was a network smash!

    Chris Mattern

  9. We did it! by redcaboodle · · Score: 5, Funny

    We actually slashdotted Intel.

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  10. Re:WTF is a mashup? by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 4, Funny
    From TFA:

    Mashups [allow] us to transform the Internet from being a collection of separate website islands, into a unified intelligence in which knowledge from one web site can be automatically combined with knowledge from another. ...uhh... so now you know.

    I smell synergy.
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  11. WTF is a Portal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, you leave Slashdot out of this! :)

  12. Re:more info in the summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know. But Cory Doctorow loves it, which means that it's smug and has bad hair.

  13. Re:What's REALLY needed by GreyPoopon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is to wire the balls of whoever thought up the word "mashup" to the mains supply and to shock them until they repent and take it back.

    Don't tase me, bro!
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  14. Re:Firefox only by jez9999 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Note that it's Firefox-only. This gives me wood! This tells us all we need to know about you.
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  15. Yeah Yeah Yeah... by Colin+Smith · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want a name...

    And address would be handy.

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  16. Re:Mashups are... by martinX · · Score: 3, Funny

    You need this:
    http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070909.html

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  17. Re:more info in the summary by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you understand?

    Now it has A CATCHIER BUZZWORD-SOUNDING NAME!

    World domination in 9...8...7...

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