Dangermond is a bit dismissive of Google's efforts, viewing its mash-ups as so much eye candy.
Take also the ability to offer powerful mash-ups of capabilities for specific market segments.
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He also sees more aggregation and "mash-ups" of data in the near future.
Still, after surveying everything from the relentlessly high-tech library in Seattle to the mash-ups of history and contemporary event space in St.
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These identities are multi-dimensional mash-ups of the personal, professional, digital, and virtual.
"I'm really enjoying people do mash-ups of social media, " Mr Crowley adds.
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Steve Jones, a professor of online culture and communications at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wondered whether all the mash-ups muddle the message.
"You don't want to do any more mash-ups, " Ms. Ireland says.
Similar to how Google or Microsoft can consolidate the entire Web within a common index, new technologies enable powerful information mash-ups across complex and secure enterprise information.
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Google started this binge on maps and "mash-ups"--loading simple maps with extra information--last June, and Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have recently helped fuel it with features of their own.
That, in turn, has set off a race among companies like SpotCrime to turn crime data into mash-ups of maps and analytics, producing charts and graphs in Web-friendly formats.
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The benefit of common identities and data integration is where hosting data together really shines, as Infochimps only needs to integrate the data once for customers to reap continued benefit: Infochimps sells datasets which are pre-cleaned and integrated mash-ups of those from their providers.
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There is also a wealth of informational "mash-ups" of maps with other data, such as Virtual Tourism, Google City Tours and safe2pee.org, so you can look at destinations ahead of time, figure out a city tour based on the sites you want to see, even locate the public restrooms.
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