MashITup Camp

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative

In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data.
-- Wikipedia

MashITupCamp was a Success!

API Talks

A series of 10 minute talks were given on various APIs. Each talk contained a description of the available data, how to access the API, some example code that uses the API, and an example application that uses the API in a Mashup.

  • Google AppEngine - Billy Mabray
  • Mechanical Turk - Billy Mabray
  • MetaWeblog - Derrick Parkhurst
  • Twitter - Grant Schofield
  • Twitpic - Noah Everett
  • OAuth - Eric Johnson
  • OpenID - Eric Johnson
  • AtomPub - Joseph Holsten
  • SBIR/STTR Opportunities - Sherry Roberts, OCAST
  • Googlemaps - Gregory Dickson
  • Amazon S3 - James Edward Gray II
  • Woot - Vance Lucas
  • Google Base - Vance Lucas
  • Screen Scraping - Charlie Southerland

First Place Mashup

The rtrend mashup provides a visual depiction of the current trending twitter topics. It combines the Twitter API with the Flickr API which are pulled together in a Ruby on Rails application. This mashup was created by @jeg2, @dgrayinok, @schofield, @kingduggan, @photomattmills, and @josephholsten.



Second Place Mashup

Three Lines of Beauty creates a Haiku using the latest twitter trending topics. The Twitter and Wordnet APIs are pulled together in a PHP application. This mashup was created by @maeghan, @garrettrayj, @joseph_donley, and @proidiot.



Honorable Mention Mashups

TweetTranslate translates twitter feeds into a number of languages. The Twitter and Google translation APIs are pulled together in a Perl application. This mashup was created by @michaelbeam, @divinism, Dee Wu and @moreindie.



Aplusk Number searches the Twitter social graph recursively to determine how connected someone is to Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk). Ashton Kutcher is a fameous personality on twitter. Aplusk Number users the twitter api from a Ruby on Rails application. This mashup was created by @thirtysixthspan.