Mashups come in many forms with new ones being created everyday. This means people are finding new ways of combining data and new applications that are web based to add value to this data.
The Mashup above was created on the Big Huge Labs site and shows a woman working in the glass blowing section of The Jam Factory in Adelaide. It was very interesting to watch the students work and to feel the heat (which seemed about 35 degrees on a 25 degree day) of the room where they worked.
It is fascinating to see how simple it is to manipulate pictures on the Big Huge Labs (BHL) site. I believe the BHL site is very simple, practical and easy to use because they have organised it well and tailored the site to handle one main process which is enhancing pictures. It is great to see that BHL can interact with flickr and other sites. I believe that the BHL service could be used to make our children’s and youth web pages more funky to add appeal for our target audience. As staff are very busy this type of graphics enhancement is not going to happen unless the service is freely available and very quick and easy to use which BHL is.
I really like the way the British Library has used a Google Maps Mashup with their site London: A Life in Maps. This is very neatly presented and easy to use. It did not show any of the pictures that I think should have been associated with the map pins but I still thought the site was great. I feel we could do something similar to highlight the locations of our 13 libraries and any major history or features of that town. It would be a novel and interesting way to show this information.
VoiceThreads is a Mashup that could be good to experiment with. I feel it maybe useful for special training sessions with staff in remote towns but it looks as if it could be a bit expensive.
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