The following is a blurb from the home page of the mashup I chose:
Description
Watch pictures from Yahoo, videos from YouTube and read the latest news about celebrity actresses, models and singers.
| APIs | Google Base + Yahoo Image Search + YouTube | |
| Tags | celebrity, models, news, photo, sex, video | |
| Added | 02 Aug 2008 | |
| Who | pk.internet [Profile] | |
| URL | http://www.sexy-celebrity-pic ...  | |
Mashups combine data from more than one source. It looks like this mashup primarily uses data from google becuase it includes a search, as well as ads, by google. My questions:
1. Is google aware of this maship?
2. If so, does google support it? Does google have any say about what's included from google's search engine on this mashup?
Although this mashup is relatively simple to use, I would never use it myself since I don't have any interest in its content. Its layout is simple, making it easy to both search and find visual and/or audio images of any famous woman you're looking for. This maship has links on the bottom of its home page, allowing the user to add this maship to any of the following sites: Digg, Delicious, Reditt, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, Netscape, Google, Yahoo, Blinklist, Technorati, Newsvine or Netvouz. Questions, comments or suggestions regarding the mashup can also be shared. All of this together encourages the viewer to actively participate in the website, which adds to Web 2.0's enhancement of creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality via the web. Pretty cool.
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Good question about whether or not Google is aware of this mashup. It raises some good questions about whether or not people get permission before they create a mashup of other people's programs and tools. These are some of these new challenges to copyright and intellectual property rights. I imagine Google knows people are using their stuff in their mashups, but they probably don't know all the specific ones out there.
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