stephen white wrote: > > The existence of mash-ups appear to be a secondary side effect from > companies wanting to embed advertising into their data and then have > that advertising appear on other people's websites. The other side is > people wanting to access that data, but they're not free to use it as > they would wish. I actually have a lot of sympathy for this point of view. The other problem with mashups is that they're entirely dependent on maintaining a good relationship with the commercial data provider (generally, Google or Yahoo). This is not a good long-term strategy for a mapping application. I'd much rather have apps that depend on public data, not Company X's proprietary stuff.
I think long-term the best mashups will be bought by the companies whose data they're based on, and the others will be shortlived flavor-of-the-month apps. I could be wrong, but I do think most mashups are temporary apps. Nothing bad about that, though. Annalee -- Annalee Newitz writer: science, technology, pop culture, sex http://www.techsploitation.com/ * president: computer professionals for social responsibility http://www.cpsr.org * editor: other http://www.othermag.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
