Andrew Mager

Category Archives: Mashup

Three reasons why Brightkite will survive

It complements Twitter - It’s really easy to update BrightKite from the web, or your mobile device. It’s not a Twitter clone either. Twitter is the what, BrightKite is the where. It’s fun to see where your friends are. You can also embed photos in your posts, so it’s a rich experience.

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Iminta the web, are you?

My former colleague at CNET is putting his Moo-magic to work on a new startup called Iminta.

I have seen sites before where you can hook in all your feeds, but this one was the easiest to use. Even easier than Google’s Jaiku.

Iminta feels like a Flash application, but it’s purely Javascript. Once you add friends, […]

Track flights in real time with flightstatus.com

At the time of this posting, my Mom is 38,000 feet above Hoxie, KS. I know this because of flightstatus.com, and interactive website that shows flight data in real time. I first heard about it on Mahalo Daily, and then from eHub.

Here is some info about my Mom’s flight:

Equipment: Boeing 757 Passenger
Latitude: 39-19-12.0 N
Longitude: 100-13-12.0 […]

Tweets, Ideas, Codes, and Verses

The always impressive tag team from Ideacodes, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, just released their new mashup called Twitterverse.

The application builds a cloud of the most commonly used words on the Twitter public timeline. Way to make an already addicting product even more interesting
This is the first Twitter mashup that really collects […]

Show your Flickr photos on Twitter

30boxes just released this new Firefox plugin called PowerTwitter. I installed it, and then checked out my Twitter home page:

This is pretty cool. I like how 30boxes is experimenting with Twitter API extentions, especially on the mobile platform.
Download the extension here: http://www.30boxes.com/external/powertwitter.xpi

Twitter Atlas may have leg up on Twittervision

Check out this new Twitter mashup:

I like how the new Twittervision has a login feature now, but this new Atlas application looks pretty impressive. The Microsoft maps look sharper when zoomed in too.