mashup

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mashup applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided to create an…

In this week's InfoPath 2010 video demo, Nicholas Lovell, a developer on the InfoPath team walks through how to create a simple portal page for processing claims at an insurance company. This claims portal includes a SharePoint Web Part with a list of all the claims, an InfoPath Web Part that…

Chris Pendleton recently wrote a mashup for Virtual Earth (Live Maps) that provides and address and a latitude/longitude whenever you click on any location on the map. After you install the app, click anywhere on the map and you'll get a pushpin. Hover over the pushpin and you'll get a pop-up that…

MapCruncher is a Microsoft Research project which uses the Virtual Earth API to import entire supplemental maps into Virtual Earth. By supplemental maps, they mean any drawn-to-scale maps you can find, be they bicycle maps, transit maps, national park maps, university maps, or antique city maps,…

What do you get when you combine Disney World, Twitter, Flickr, and Microsoft's Virtual Earth? You get the awesome site Twisney.com! The site lets you send in email, IMs, text messages, or tweets in order to update the Virtual Earth map with your photos and news. When you send in your status update…

Now this is a cool mashup and its built right into Virtual Earth! In Wikipedia, you may have noticed that some articles have coordinates in the upper-right hand side of the page that locate that place on a map. (See this example). Clicking on the coordinates from the Wikipedia entry will take you to…

A few weeks ago here at Microsoft was official MASHUP DAY!  A day where all great Microsoft minds met and brainstormed on some innovative ways to search.  There was a DJ, booze and of course the ever so popular chocolate fondue fountain.  And not to mention lots of great ideas…

Jon Pincus (our resident Mashup expert) hits channel 10 to explain what a Mashup is and to share his thought on Mashup events.  I've been to a few of these on the MS campus and there's lots of fondue and beer.  You can get these MASHUPS and Live Gallery.  A lot of the ideas that come…

Another Mash-Up day where creative minds merge with technical minds and hopefully we all benefit from the pairing. If you DON'T know what a mash-up is then definitely watch this clip to find out- you might want to start attending an event like this near you. And if you DO know what a mash-up is,…

O Popfly é uma comunidade em beta criada pela Microsoft para estimular a criação de mashups. Através de uma interface gráfica, é possível combinar diversos tipos de aplicativos e serviços Web em um único produto ou serviço final. É bem fácil de usar e há um tutorial passo-a-passo (em inglês)…