Bless our geeky little hearts, one of our projects made it on a big-boy site.  We were unsuspectingly featured on Mashups.com on the 20th for our work on myRealtyBlog.  For those of you not in the "know," a mashup, according to wikipedia is a website or Web 2.0 application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service.   So what makes our myRealtyBlog a mashup?  By combining MLS, the Zillow™ API and Yahoo! Maps and Neighborhood into a blog, we created an entirely new service for Realtors®.  Voila! Mashup!

Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API. Other methods of sourcing content for mashups include Web feeds (e.g. RSS or Atom) and JavaScript.

Much the way blogs revolutionised online publishing, mashups are revolutionizing web development by allowing anyone to combine existing data from sources like Amazon.com, eBay, Google, Strikeiron, Windows Live and Yahoo! in innovative ways. The greater availability of simple and lightweight APIs has made mashups relatively easy to design. They require minimal technical knowledge and thus custom mashups are sometimes created by unlikely innovators, combining available public data in new and creative ways. While there are many useful mashups, others are simple novelties or gimmicks, with minimal practical utility.

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