User Generated Mashups

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User generated is not limited to content, now it’s user generated mashup everywhere. User are building search engines like Mahalo and now the mashups is the lates hit. Microsoft Popfly and Yahoo Pipes are such examples and now we have Intel’s Mash Maker which I spotted on Kate Greenes article on Technologyreview

A new research project from Intel Research, in Berkeley, CA, is trying to take some of the mystery out of crafting a mashup. Called Mash Maker, the project aims to let people use their ordinary Web browsers to combine information from different sites. If, for example, you are looking at apartments on Craigslist, you can easily add information about nearby restaurants from Yelp, a recommendation site, essentially augmenting the data on the Craigslist page. With another few clicks of a button, you can put the apartments and Yelp listings on a Google map, which will also appear within the Craigslist page. The next time you visit the Craigslist page, you can reopen the mashup, and it will automatically use new data from the site. The idea, says Robert Ennals, is to let people create their own custom-made Web. "Right now, the Web is a collection of islands; each has its own information, but they aren’t really interconnected and personalized for you," he says. "We’re trying to move to where the Web is a single source of interconnected knowledge, presenting information that you want to see the way you want to see it."

The web is really getting user centric. When I think of future I really wonder what would be the future ecosystem like. What about the usual gateways of the web - search engines, directories and social web ? Is the future of web really personal, personal islands of web connected through semantics. In that case, the definition of social networks will change and if you really think deeper the future of social network is not on web. Where it is then ? Well that’s a secret, post your thoughts. Clue - it’s the stuff that you already now and use on a daily basis

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