All Mashed Up

For this week’s assignment, we had to choose a Mashup and write about it. After exploring the ProgrammableWeb website, I found the Mashup StadiumHunt.com, which basically does what the title says, it finds you a stadium.

StadiumHunt.com I think is a good example of the basic elemets needed to make a Mashup; it combines Google Maps with Stadium info.

Stadium Hunt provides satellite images, ticket information and directions for hundreds of stadiums across the United States.

This site is easy to navigate, in that, stadiums are placed into categories based on sports, which are tabbed at the top of the page. After choosing a sport, you then pick a team and you’ll find the stadium where they play! Here you’ll find useful information including the Stadium’s address, telephone number and it even provided images, including pictures of the stadiums and nearby area (s). In addition, you can also find ticket information and nearby points of interest. The only drawback for me when exploring this page was that the Google adds are located on the top of the page, meaning you need to scroll down to see your results. As a user of the site, I would prefer to see these adds to the site or at the bottom of the page.

Next, I visited the Rollyo page and searched Librarianblogs by Gabe on “privacy”, which yielded some neat results. What the site does is search all of the blogs that are included in the Librarianblogs Searchroll and gave me results only from these pages. This is definitely a neat site if you know what webpage you want to search!