Technology Mashup

A new one from MrMashUp.

Carl Theobald, Sr. VP of Products and support, mashes up software and music by bringing together Mozart, Blues, Mashups, and more for this original musical performance. A music mashup from the man who helps deliver business mashups.

I've been pretty quiet over the past week or two as I've been working behind the scenes trying to upgrade the platform, implement new features and generally tidy up the content.

The tag cloud is still a primary form of site navigation and this is collaboratively driven by author contributions.

I've also implemented high level mashup pages. These are accessible through the primary navigation links. Essentially the mashups combine tags I've assigned from various domains, sorts them, removes duplicates and then presents them in descending chronological order. So for example the Social Media Mashup pages is an aggregator combining tags such as "Social Media", "Facebook", "MySpace" etc.

Interesting story on data mashups in the UK public sector. I think we need a competition to solve our economic woes and remove the extortionate taxes applied by the lame duck excuse for a government we have, but I guess this is a step in the right direction - for now at least ...

Government launches data mash-up - The UK government launches a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects.