Era of the mash-ups – Newest Web sites among Net’s hottest phenomena

/ mash-up MASH-up n: a Web site or Web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience Source: Wikipedia

Take a pinch of Yahoo or Google. Then stir in some census data, photographs or crime statistics. What you get is a "mash-up."

Among the Internet’s hottest phenomena, these Web sites combine ingredients from different online sources to create intriguing hybrids.

Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/11/14/BUG0MFN1CI1.DTL

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Great site for indexing mashups.

Mashup Matrix: an experimental view of Web 2.0 mashups. http://www.programmableweb.com/

Thanks to John Masterson for passing this along. Russ