Mashup
I recently was watching some of the videos on THRUYOU and really thought these videos were very good and very interesting. I watched most of them and found myself not getting bored. When people watch these and when I watched these videos I am fascinated in how they make these videos.
These videos are classified as mashups. I never really new what mashups were before doing this unit at uni but my definition would have never been something like the videos on THRUYOU. My definition of a mashup was something that used applications from different areas and put them into one. I then looked up mashups on the ever faithful wikipedia and found out my definition wasn’t too far off. Mashups can also use APIS which is another great tool for developing interesting and easy websites. The use of masups and other similar new technologies just make it easier for people to produce work and collate information for whatever the topic they need.
This brings me to my next point, anyone can make something from all of the information out there. Why do people make these things. I find a lot of these things very interesting and very creative, but what are they gaining from these projects? I am sure there are a lot of designers out there who could make some great stuff but just don’t have the time. Some of the best works in these areas are done by good designers. They are getting paid for these works usually and that’s when some good work gets produced. So to take full advantage of these new technologies I think companies and business should take on some these new technologies and produce some different work. These kinds of works are very popular to people these days and are also very accessible. Works that are on the internet are very popular and are viewed by a lot of people.
I think I will have to produce something like these works in the future.
