Mashup!

The term mash-up refers to a new breed of Web-based applications created by hackers and programmers (typically on a volunteer basis) to mix at least two different services from disparate, and even competing, Web sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider. The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs.

This capability to mix and match data and applications from multiple sources into one dynamic entity is considered by many to represent the promise of the Web service standard (also referred to as on-demand computing).


f you take content of other websites on your own one, you have to check before if the webmaster of the website is agree to let you get his informations.

That’s happened to Google recently which had open at the beginning of this year the Belgium version of Google news. The association of the daily press publishers didn’t let Google to publish the content of their articles on Google News.


At the beginning of last September Google lost the lawsuit against the association of the daily press and withdraw all news which come from Belgium’s daily newspaper websites.

All the details of the 'Belgium Google News affair'

Netvibes purposes to its users to create their personal space, in order to aggregate the news they want to receive, with RSS and Atom technology support. Created with an Ajax-bases start page, the webpage can be organized through tabs and modules, and let its users to chose the type of content they want to have (news, Gmail messages, web search, local weather forecast…)