Mashup demos

Personal New York Times RSS Feed Demo

Chris_C — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:56:00 GMT

Add the New York Times topics you are interested in. Then add a search term for that topic. Click "Add More Configuration" to add additional topics to your feed.

For each configuration the RSS Feed will contain 5-25 stories (if available on The New York Times site that is).

Access Hotmail in a Google Gadget

Andreas — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:20:00 GMT

	Let you see your hotmail inbox in a Google Gadget on your personalized Google startpage. This is done by using a Web Clip robot on openkapow. In the Google Gadget you can read your hotmail, respond to mails and send new mails.

This is a demo of openkapow's capability to clip and transform content from one webpage into another. To run this demo you need a valid hotmail account. Time to dust of your old passwords, or create a new account.

To run this demo just click this button:

Clicking on the button will take you to a confirmation page from Google asking if you want to add our demo to your Google page. Once you have done this you will see the widget asking for your email and password. Enter your hotmail username (ie you full hotmail email address) and password and you will be able to access your Hotmail inbox straight from the Google Gadget. Do not worry about security, all communication is done over HTTPs so your private information will not be accessible to outsiders.

Once you have added the Gadget to your Google startpage and specified your hotmail username and password it is going to look something like this:

[Click image to enlarge]

Email service provided by MSN and gadget API by Google.

Show Phone Location on a Map

Andreas — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:38:00 GMT

	Enter a US phone number and this mashup demo will show you where the phone is located on a map. The demo is built using a simple openkapow REST robot that interacts with YellowPages.com, some PHP code and Google Maps.

Aggregated Price Search

Andreas — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:55:00 GMT

	Compares prices on a product by using REST robots that searches Froogle, EBay and Yahoo Shopping. The demo uses JSP to call the robots, parse the returned XML, sort the result and present the result.

Image-Tag Matching Game

Andreas — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:12:00 GMT

	This demo is a game where the users tries to match groups of images to groups of tags based on what word they have in common. The words, images and tags are all taken from external sites which makes the game dynamic and every game is unique. The demo is all written in Ruby on Rails and uses AJAX to create the user interface.