Mashup? No… Mashapp!
In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services.
The term implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs (an interface implemented by a software program that enables it to interact with other software) and data sources to produce enriched results that were not necessarily the original reason for producing the raw source data.
The main characteristics of the mashup are combination, visualization and aggregation. Mashup is important to make more useful already existing data, moreover for personal and professional use. from wikipedia
While working on ohanah, a mashup web application for events, we came up with the word mashapp ;-).
What is a mashapp? A mashup through apps on a web application, where the integration and combination of other systems happen in the web application through the use and deployment of apps that people can run directily on the web. Every app is therefore a little mashup itself. It’s a powerfull and strong way to work with APIs and other gr8 services on the net without forcing too much of this combination at a core level leaving the freedom to mashup directly to the user upon its needs. At an architectural level this help scalability issues as those apps can run on different servers if needed.
As the Ingo Maurer Light Creation (“Oh man, It’s a ray”) pictured above, creating something with what you can find out there in a new way is what mashups are all about, and that’s where innovation come along as innovating means exatly this. Ingo Maurer Just used “hangers” to hang light bulbs, that’s what a suspencion lamp is all about, for sure supnsension lamps, hangers and light bulbs aren’t innovative, but the meshup Ingo did is innovative- that make completely sense doesn’t it?
*picture from Ingo Maurer
