SpeedGeeking3
From MashupCamp
As with MashupCamp 1 and MashupCamp 2 we used SpeedGeeking (like speed dating) to judge the best mashups at Mashup Camp 3. Very shortly, we will be opening up the Best Mashup Contest proposal page for Mashup Camp 4.
What follows below is a list of Best Mashup Contest entries for Mashup Camp 3 and any other details we had to offer (eg: photos of the speedgeekers in action).
| Station | Developer(s) | Mashup | Score | Photo |
| 1 | Andreas Krohn | OpenKapow.com enables anybody to build REST or RSS from any HTML source. Dont be limited by the APIs available, build your own in minutes. | 4 nickels |
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| 2 | Chris Radcliff and Nate Ritter | Gigul8r (gigul8r.com) - : Mashup (in PHP/AJAX) of Myspace, Google Maps, and Eventful to help bands promote their gigs online. | 7 Nickels |
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| 3 | Alan Taylor | Booksearch x 3 Combination of the "Search Inside The Book" features of MSN Live, A9.com and Google Books - see results from all 3 engines on a single page. | 0 nickels |
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| 4 | Ambient Messaging -- Flickr+AIM | 0 nickels | ||
| 5 | Larry Aasen | Boxely -- WebEx-like photo collaboration app with AIM mashed into it | 0 nickels |
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| 6 | Tim Desjardins, DavidJanes | BlogMatrix(http://www.blogmatrix.com) - BlogMatrix – We’ll be demonstrating the BlogMatrix Platform, which centralizes your information into your weblog using structured blogging and then publishes that data for you to other services such as Google Calendar, Google Base, eBay, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, eventful, Magnolia, BlueDot, and so forth. BlogMatrix also queries and embeds other services to help create rich structured content, including maps from Google, event lookups, geocoding services and so on. | 4 nickels |
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| 7 | Kent Brewster | MyBlogLog+Del.icio.us = MyBlogLog Tagger (MyBlagger?) | 1 nickel |
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| 8 | Anthony Volodkin | The Hype Machine (http://hypem.com) combines music blog discussion, tracks, youtube video, concert and sales data to create a unique music discovery experience. (Powered by a healthy mix of Perl & PHP) | 18 nickels | |
| 9 | John Herren | gBlinker takes a Google blinky pin, interfaced it to my laptop via serial port, and hacked a Gmail widget (using the Yahoo! widget engine) to make the pin blink when I get new mail. | 6 nickels |
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| 10 | Dave Nielsen | Excel Mashup (Excel Spreadsheet Mashup) - : Mashup using SOA Express and 4 StrikeIron Web Services (Reverse Phone Lookup, Geocode Lookup, US Census Data, SMS Messaging. Cynergy Census Dashboard was also demo'd. | 1 nickel |
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| 11 | Marco Ceglie and Jonathan Wood | MeCommerce (http://api.goodstorm.com) - GoodStorm - Taste-sharing just got tastier. GoodStorm makes it possible for bloggers to create a fully shopping experience around their content. Our tools allow anyone to create their own "MeCommerce" mashups and sell their favorite stuff (from a catalog of millions of book, CD, DVD, and MP3 titles) on their P2P platform of choice. What's more, we're giving developers open access to our data/API model, in the hopes that our vast catalog and generous profit-sharing model will give rise to other exciting mashups, with the shared vision of making it easy for anyone to start their own business online. | 3 nickels |
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| 12 | Loki plus Yahoo Messanger | 0 Nickels | ||
| 13 | Kevin Lawver | Buddy Stalker turns your AIM Buddy List into a feed readering using several different web services, Ruby on Rails and the Dojo Toolkit. It was all built in about 8 hours on Tuesday. | 5 nickels |
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| 14 | Virgil Zetterlind | Google Earth NOAA Mashup (note that he switched to table 9 from table 14 on day 2 of Mashup Camp). Virgil was also a $500 winner in the FUTUREBoston Contest. | 9 nickels |
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| 15 | Chris Marstall | Tourfilter (http://www.tourfilter.com) rails/ajax mashup between The Hype Machine (mp3 blog aggregator) and club calendars - lets you view blogs mentioning + listen to mp3s by bands coming to town. | 13 nickels | |
| 16 | Darmesh Desai | PhotoLign Voice History Album (www.lignup.com) Amazon, StrikeIron and LignUp web services mashup. Imagine a photo website where each picture includes a verbal narration of the story behind each photo. For example, an old picture of Grandma and Grandpa when they were young. Grandpa’s voice can be recorded telling the story of when he and Grandma first met. Visitors can voice record a response to the picture, creating a voice history or voice blog. | 4 nickels |
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| 17(a) | Jinesh Varia | WhatsTheTune(http://aws.amazon.com) 3-way mashup for those who suffer from shower singing syndrome - means those who know the tune but dont know lyrics or song title/artist. This mashup records your tune, stores the wav file on Amazon S3, Creates an HIT on Mechanical Turk, Turkers listen to the clip, answers the HIT (title, song etc), the mashup looks out for the answer, takes the test and looks up Amazon (Via Amazon ECS) and tells you the price of the CD/DVD on Amazon. | 0 nickels |
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| 17(b) | Grüvr - Basically, a Digg for MySpace with Google mapping of shows | 0 Nickels | ||
| 18 | Jinesh Varia | ChessTurk(http://aws.amazon.com) If the Nobelman in 1769 play chess with the turk, Why can't we in the 21st century. Mashup of playing a game of chess against the rest of the world where worker gets paid for every single move. ChessTurk is mashup between Amazon S3 and Amazon Mechanical Turk Web Services. Come by to see the demo | 0 nickels | |
| 19 | Jeb Boniakowski | Proto is a situational app-building tool. The mashup we're demoing is a sales rep tool that combines Salesforce.com data with emails from your local Outlook, Yahoo! Maps, and Skype. | 4 nickels | |
| 20 | IBIS Eye: Storm Tracking and Visualization | 0 nickels | ||
| 21 | Andrew Bidochko | RE for web -- Real Estate for Web | 0 nickels |
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| 22 | Clay Bavor | GoogleBase+Gadgets | 0 nickels | |
| 23 | Robocal - Google Cal + Voice | 0 nickels | ||
| 24 | Paul Johnson | GangstaMap a shockwave 3d/flash mashup that combines yahoo maps and google video. (8 nickels) | 8 nickels | |
| 25 | Allen Morgan and Dominika Goraczniak | Altien Doc Manager | 2 nickels | |
| 26 | Genetically Engineered Machines | 0 nickels | ||
| 27 | HotelFinder XForms+SCXML Mashup | 0 nickels |
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| 28 | Eric Harris-Braun | Money Mash | 1 Nickel |
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| 29 | Joe Berkovitz | ReviewTube (ReviewTube): YouTube/Flex/Rails mashup adding time-based captioning to any YouTube video | ||
| 30 | Sanjeeb Bhoi | MapMyEvent (http://www.mapmyevent.com) Google Maps API and Hotels.com database mashup. (0 nickels) | 0 nickels |



