The father of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee in this recent interview with the UK’s BCS gives his take on mashups:
Mash-ups are called Web 2.0, but they are data integrations – taking a piece of display technology like a map application and doing a handcrafted data integration. I’ve yet to see a mash-up that uses semantic Web data and crafts it – the fact that everyone has their own mash-up tells the story.
What I’ve always wanted to do is take an arbitrary thing, a data file, and if it’s got something that can be mapped, drop it into a map and see what occurs without programming.
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2 Responses to “Tim Berners-Lee on Mashups”
at 12:55 pm
This would seem like a case of shameless self promotion, but this: “…a data file, and if it’s got something that can be mapped, drop it into a map and see what occurs without programming.”
is it exactly what my “mashup” does: http://www.batchgeocode.com/
Maybe I could get Tim to use it! That would be an honor indeed. =o)
at 3:07 pm
Indeed, your batch geocoder does just that — if only Tim knew…