Web 2.0 Lab

How To Do Things


This website is a mashup of Google Personalized Search and Netvibes. It uses guides, tutorials and widgets to help you learn how to do a variety of things from making paninis to fixing tire leaks. I think that this website is pretty useful since it has a variety of things you can learn how to do. It also has a lot of things on it that I don't know how to do, such as making Ukrainian Easter eggs, but it has a few things I do know how to do, such as using a curling iron. I think its useful since there are a lot of random things on the website that typically aren't on websites, and they are helpful to the kind of person who needs random questions answered that they wouldn't necessarily be able to be answered anywhere else. Although this is the first mashup site I went to, I think it might be my favorite one.

Pixoble

Pixoble is a mashup of Flickr, Yahoo Images, Yahoo Videos, You Tube, VEOH, and Live Video, which makes it so you can search for images and videos at the same time. I think that this mashup is pretty cool because its like a mega search for media from all around. Basically, you cover all your bases at the click of your mouse, which for the lazy teenager is pretty awesome.

Mayer's Office of Theater, Film and Broadcasting

This mashup shows the locations of every movie ever set in New York City. It uees Yahoo Maps. I think that this mashup is pretty cool for a couple of reasons. First off, its a new way to use a map and integrate film into it. It shows a picture of the scene where the film was shot, for example in Central Park. I think that this is really interactive and good for knowing random movie facts. It also would be cool to look up your favorite movies and be able to go to their filming locations.

I like mashups because they make the most of the internet's abilities to give us information. they also have a funny name... its like mashed potatoes and ketchup... mash...up.