Comments on: The Mashup Is Dead http://davetroy.com/posts/the-mashup-is-dead Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software Sun, 20 May 2012 16:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kingsley.Idehen http://davetroy.com/posts/the-mashup-is-dead#comment-65 Kingsley.Idehen Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:03:00 +0000 http://dave.popvox.com/?p=19#comment-65 Dave,<br/><br/>Amen! For the most part. The emerging "Linked Data Web" (foundation layer of broader Semantic Web vision) ushers in a period of Open Data Access on the Web, where the Data behind Web pages is available in structured form -- enabling a global ability to "Mesh" rather than "Mash" web accessible Data.<br/><br/>Kingsley Dave,

Amen! For the most part. The emerging “Linked Data Web” (foundation layer of broader Semantic Web vision) ushers in a period of Open Data Access on the Web, where the Data behind Web pages is available in structured form — enabling a global ability to “Mesh” rather than “Mash” web accessible Data.

Kingsley

]]> By: Jim http://davetroy.com/posts/the-mashup-is-dead#comment-64 Jim Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:24:00 +0000 http://dave.popvox.com/?p=19#comment-64 Dave<br/>great point and you are miles in front of what's next<br/>you have literally captured the global zeitgeist with your brilliant<br/>aps_watching twitter thoughts & flickr pics and video fly randomly from across the planet was <br/>as compelling as human nature itself<br/>_i will show everyone i know_a grand vision you have sir_and for that you have my respect and compliments Dave
great point and you are miles in front of what’s next
you have literally captured the global zeitgeist with your brilliant
aps_watching twitter thoughts & flickr pics and video fly randomly from across the planet was
as compelling as human nature itself
_i will show everyone i know_a grand vision you have sir_and for that you have my respect and compliments

]]> By: Dave Troy http://davetroy.com/posts/the-mashup-is-dead#comment-54 Dave Troy Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:53:00 +0000 http://dave.popvox.com/?p=19#comment-54 Back up. What I said was that there are many, many widely available API's, and that where there aren't, there are tools that make consuming non-API-enabled data easy.<br/><br/>I've been writing tools to scrape and systematize data since the early days of the Internet, and my point is that it is nowhere near the feat that it once was.<br/><br/>My point is that by putting the emphasis on the "act" of mashing up (and the technical prowess required to marshal data into a usable form) is not the essential point. That's like praising the act of computing itself. It's the *output* that matters.<br/><br/>Once we have finished worshipping the act of data-gathering itself, we can begin to contemplate the potential meaning and use of that data. Back up. What I said was that there are many, many widely available API’s, and that where there aren’t, there are tools that make consuming non-API-enabled data easy.

I’ve been writing tools to scrape and systematize data since the early days of the Internet, and my point is that it is nowhere near the feat that it once was.

My point is that by putting the emphasis on the “act” of mashing up (and the technical prowess required to marshal data into a usable form) is not the essential point. That’s like praising the act of computing itself. It’s the *output* that matters.

Once we have finished worshipping the act of data-gathering itself, we can begin to contemplate the potential meaning and use of that data.

]]> By: Anonymous http://davetroy.com/posts/the-mashup-is-dead#comment-53 Anonymous Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:46:00 +0000 http://dave.popvox.com/?p=19#comment-53 Dave,<br/><br/>your hopelessly optimistic about the openness and availability of all of these api's. for a tiny segment of internet toys you might be right be in the larger world and in corporations they are still a huge barrier. Dave,

your hopelessly optimistic about the openness and availability of all of these api’s. for a tiny segment of internet toys you might be right be in the larger world and in corporations they are still a huge barrier.

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