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'live' snow mashup
2009-12-30: Loving this 'live' UK snow mashup. It shows where there is snow in the UK based on reports from people using Twitter.
Mashups are something people are getting very excited about. Now there are Web 2.0 services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps and so on, and many of those provide ways for programmers to access them (APIs), programmers are mixing them together. So this combined Twitter with Google Maps to produce a 'live' snow map.
Much as the core of me goes "pah, new fashionable bullshit trend nonsense it'll all be over by the spring", I'm wrong in this instance. Mashups (bleaugh) are exciting. I need a client to let me really integrate their site with Facebook .. just look at the possibilities.

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