Okay, how would you feel if you can create your very own web two point oh mashup? You say I am crazy. That’s fine. Apparently, it’s my lucky night. I came up with a very interesting Google keyword: mashup. And it stranded me onto programmableweb.com matrix. Programmable web, this is just what I’ve been looking for. On the matrix you can see a hell lot of mashup created by integrating two or more interoperable data collected from open APIs. The killer feature, mashup-of-mashup, is not there yet. But fear not, it’s on their todo list already. Crazy web 2.0 bastard, they really know how to make me feeling horny.

You’re not horny yet? Well, check this Dapper service. It’s a lego like service builder. Using online tool to extract data from any website you like, we can create some service which “template” has been given to play with. Name it HTML, RSS, XML, JSON, YAML, Image Loop, Google Widget, and some more. Go on, frag your brain, create a mashup!

PS:

There seems to be a similar tool as Firefox extension. It’s just too bad that mozdev.org is currently down. It’s should be here, named platypus.

Update:

Dapper was not so damn cool. It’s actually an online scraper builder and transformer. Despite it’s very useful for any website which has no feed to consume, what we actually need in this Web 2.0 era is a tool to combine those existing data piles into something new. So I guess then damn cool thing would only happen if Dapper has finish their mashup-of-mashup feature. Till then, I’ll think an approach myself. Something like an online XPath builder. Using available js library, it’s not impossible to achieve. *Yeah, right :p*. Uh oh, you can found platypus here, but it is only compatible with Firefox 0.7-1.0. You’re screwed :P

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