Good examples of mash-up can be found through many websites.
Netvibes purposes to its users to create
their personal space, in order to aggregate the news they want to receive, with
RSS and Atom technology support. Created with an Ajax-bases start page, the
webpage can be organized through tabs and modules, and let its users to chose the
type of content they want to have (news, Gmail messages, web search, local
weather forecast…)
Mappr is an interactive space for exploring different places,
based on the pictures people take and put on Flickr. Through the tags
system used on Flickr, Mappr organize the feeds according to their location.
Weather
Bonk
offers to view real time weather information on a map, based on personal
weather stations and national weather services. The contents are very detailed
and take in account precisions such as microclimates. Moreover, users can have
visual observation from a given location when they click on the webcams they
can found on the website.
Google personalized homepage, a Netvibes-like
Google personnalized homepage developped with AJAX technology which permits in particular to move your blocks easily.
It's a new fashion, everything on the web should be 'my' or if you want, personnalized. That's why Yahoo and msn launched recently their personnalized websites.
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