Week 3 #6 Photos and images - Flickr mashups

Well I've having a bit of fun this evening with some Flickr mashups. The term mashup originally comes from music where someone combines the music and vocals from two different songs to create a hybrid song. When done well it's a piece of art and soooo catchy - think Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get Blue Monday out of my head" or "Horny like a Dandy" - Mousse T/The Dandy Warhols.

Anyhoo I digress. We can have mashups with web applications too. People can create a mashup that will pass data through several web applications and produce interesting results. One I liked was Spell with Flickr. You type in the word and the application will display that word using images of letters found in Flickr. I tried inputting webgurl and got the following result. Cute huh?


Looking for more mashups? Check out the Programmable Web's Mashup directory. They include more than just Flickr e.g. Google maps etc. Some are cool, some are just plain weird. For all of the book nerds out there check out 4isbn, search for books at Amazon by ISBN.