Now, leaving the mashed potato jokes aside- what I mean is to say is - how about a future of software mash-ups? According to Dion Hinchcliffe we are in for a
bumper crop. What a great idea- and a possible solution to those wanting to take those useful features from VLEs, online repositories, e-Porfolios and social software tools... and mash them all up! Is this really possible?
If Dion's pretty diagram is anything to go by, it looks like such a stunningly great concept:
Dion's blog posting outlines 17 mash-up platforms which end-users could use for this purpose. He has lots more ideas for this user-created mash-ups on his own
blog.See also
Stephen Downes and
Wayne Hodgkins for more on this topic.
2 comments:
Interesting. If folk want a clear intro to the idea of mash-up then the discussion of QEDWiki from IBM does the job reasonably well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIq9t9Gqs
Part of the problem is having the useful data available in a useable format. For example, Jon Udell has been battling his local police chief for crime data to mashup.
http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/11/
We might start locally even with decent resolution maps for the county on Google Maps/Earth etc.
At the end of the day, novel integration of data is rewarding but a primary challenge is also to teach the analysis skills for understanding it. The proof of the mash is in the eating ...
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