Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The problem with developing a standard is that it is only as useful as those adopting it. It’s the KISS principle.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The open, public, and community-oriented nature of these challenges meant that "the community identifie[d] workable solutions to problems they think need to be solved. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on.

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