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Intel envisions mashups for the masses
Have you ever felt like a website would be just perfect if it added one more feature or information element? Then your essentially interested in building your own mashup.
Mashups are all the thing in Web2.0. Most of them combine Google maps with some other information source and post the new service on a new website.
If the site offers APIs and uses XML based standards such as RSS, you can build your own mashup. Except that you have to be a programmer to get there.
Wouldn't it be much easier if you can add information without worrying about the underlying technology? Meet Intel's MashMaker, a research project from Intel Labs that will do just that.
In the video below you can view a demo where we combine rental listing with restaurant listings – just in case you want to make sure that there is plenty of takeout near your new home.
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This is cool stuff. What value is doing this type of research for Intel? Will they sell more PCs/servers? Recruit developers? Use in marketing?
Posted by: James Miller | June 25, 2007 4:42 PM
RE: James
It's all about enabling the ecosystem. Intel research in part wants to can help create new classes of applications that will drive server and desktop sales. Then they have a pretty good shot that those will have an Intel chip inside.
Posted by: SV Sleuth | June 29, 2007 12:33 AM