Kutiman's Thru-YOU Videos: Remixing the Future Present

When I stumbled across Kutiman's incredible Thru-YOU series of music videos last week I was totally and completely blown away. Transfixed, I watched all seven videos in succession — then went back to the beginning...

Top 12 Obama Mashups Past and Upcoming

There are oodles of mashups for President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama - his long campaign, eventual election and the upcoming inaugural extraveganza. Here is a short list of 12 curious, funny, inspiring, nerdy and...

Online Crime Maps "More Useful to Criminals"

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had proposed an online crime map to show crime hotspots, and where police are being dispatched, in order to quell the public's fear of crime. An early version of the map is currently visible. However, critics argue that such maps...

Girl Talkalypse Now: December 21, 2012

Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, is setting his sights on the end date of the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012, as an appropriately apocalyptic day to end his career. If the world is burning anyway, 24 hours of...

Apatar Integrates IBM DB2 Products with Third-party Applications and Cleanses...

New Apatar connector allows users to read/write data from/to DB2 tables, create integrations using multiple data sources, and improve the quality of data extracted from or written to IBM DB2 family...

Monkey Magic: DIY Forbidden Kingdom Trailer

Lion's Gate has done a one-eighty from blocking an online version of their hotly-anticipated* movie poster.As discussed below, fans of the genre (and would-be fans of the film) can remix their own version s of the...

FlyRig Apartment Finder: Better than Craigslist?

"FlyRig is a handy little mashup that’s making the task of finding an apartment a little bit easier. So far, FlyRig is limited to the New York City area, but the potential for this tool is quite extensive....

A Brilliant Idea Mashed Up

Christmas Lights on the Tacky Light Tour   For years Matt Burgess searched newspapers, magazines and his neighbors for a list of the best Christmas lights in Richmond, Virginia. He wasn’t the only one...

The Indie Indy: Fan Films, Copyright, and Public Appetite

A few years ago, I heard about a group of indie filmmakers-- middle-school kids, actually-- who, a year after Raiders of the Lost Ark hit the cinemas, decided to make their own version, in homage to the modern...

Road Trip Planner and Online Travel Guide

"TripCart has all the makings of an innovative travel site that integrates vacation research and planning tools with user generated content, social networking and a great mapping mashup. In my brief review I was...

Crowdsourced Music: Remix the Mashup

"With its feet firmly planted in the worlds of sample-based music and global remix culture, crowdsourced music is taking our shared fascination with the re-working and re-interpretation of sounds, songs, and...

Cup Crazy with Cowan at the Cambie - Canucks Outsider hockey podcast #50

As Vancouver celebrates Cowan's emergence as a scoring force and the bra-legend is born, Dan Funboy and Dave talk about the streaking Canucks and face-offs, prospects, penalty killing and more while enjoying winter ales at the Cambie Inn. Plus an idea from Darren Barefoot...

Google unveils election mashup

"The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool, unveiled early Monday, indicates the country's 436 congressional districts with stars on the popular 3D map of the country. Clicking on a star pops open a bubble...

French Court Bars Greenpeace Mashup

"A French court has ordered Greenpeace France to remove this Google Maps mashup showing where Monsanto is genetic engineering maize. In retaliation Greenpeace members responded by going into those fields and carving a giant ‘X’ crop circle into the maize."

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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