Word: mashups
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...long and fraught with disappointment. I’ve traveled that road, and know that there are disappointments. You don’t always find what you’re looking for, to say the least, but sometimes things work out all right. Let’s dig in.Remixes, Mashups, Mixtapes, Bastard Pop, Radiomixes. The extent to which these musical terms, constructs, and formats have achieved ubiquity has become a truism. I mean, Christ, with the upcoming campus performance by Girl Talk and links to the Ratatat remixes being sent out over house lists, even the Harvard community...
From the start, Etown was a peculiar hybrid. The Forsters would play bluegrass, folk, rock, and host live performances, then shift into interviewing climate scientists on the frontiers of global warming. Many of the questions came directly from listeners. It was a mashup that in many ways was ahead of its time, especially in its early focus on the intricacies of global warming. "We're like original bloggers," says Nick Forster. "We were building from the grass roots...
...already has more than 15,000 users, and its customer base doubled between March and April thanks to "word of mouth and viral" means, Wilson says. Even bigger growth could be ahead, since 3DVIA recently linked up with Facebook, where users can now make a 3D mashup. For instance, say you create a 3D model of Bart Simpson: you can then insert the model into a photo of yourself so it looks as if you're talking to it and post it on your profile. Dassault says similar arrangements with other social-networking sites, like MySpace and Bebo, are also...
...Exhibitions are organized by location, popularity, genre and other handy categories, but one of the site's most useful features is a Google Map "mashup" overlaid with gallery locations, making it easy for visitors to plot an afternoon's art hopping. Users can also bookmark their favorite shows and venues, and request e-mail reminders of exhibitions. These user-friendly enhancements are born of Baron's own experience as a gallery buff. "We are our best users," he says. "We don't pretend to know anything about art. We just enjoy going to shows." Baron extends his beat...
...Exhibitions are organized by location, popularity, genre and other handy categories, but one of the site's most useful features is the Google Map mashup overlaid with gallery locations, making it easy for visitors to plot an afternoon's art hopping. Users can also bookmark their favorite shows and venues, and request e-mail reminders of exhibitions. These user-friendly enhancements are born of Baron's own experience as a gallery buff. "We are our best users," he says. "We don't pretend to know anything about art. We just enjoy going to shows." Baron extends his beat...