Friday, April 6, 2007

Assignment #50

Mashups

OK! How many of you know what a MASHUP is? A mashup is a combination of 2 or more databases to come up with – whatever. For instance a real popular mashup is to take the Google Maps database and combine it locally with houses for sale. The result is cool if the area has hi def pictures. One agent uses Google Earth to show you how to find your house from 15,000 miles in space. You can zoom right in on the house see the neighborhood, etc. Here’s one for Reno

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Reno-Nevada/

So now put

(your home town) real estate google

into http://www.google.com/

and see what you get.

Play!!

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