Tag Archive for 'Mashups'

Widgets and Portable Content / Portable Applications

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Lyndon
on April 15, 2008
in Business Strategy, Creative Strategy, Marketing Strategy and Technology Strategy
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I found a succinct presentation on widgets, which I’d like to share with you, via Slideshare.net. If there were a mantra that I’d be in favour of, then it would be - “let it live outside the garden fence” - so, without further ado, let your content live outside the confines of your http. Portable Content, anyone?

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Yahoo Pipes

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Lyndon
on April 12, 2008
in Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy and Technology Strategy
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Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

According to the homepage of Yahoo Pipes - this is what you’re going to be able to do - easily. For those who are unfamiliar with the terms of “aggregate” and “mashup” in the context of the web, in plain English, it means that you can use Pipes to collect sources of news or information from diverse sources and manage how that information is displayed back to you. You can sort and filter information this way, further tailoring it to your needs or wishes, which you can then re-share with others using a badge.

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