Mashup? Heard of it? No, not mashed potatoes (but ummm yummmy those sound good right about now)! What’s a mashup you ask? Well for the best description you can of course check out the wonderful Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29 and read up on it. For eases sake however a mashup is a web app that combines data from more than one site. So, if you get 5, 10, or some other ungodly amount of RSS feeds you can create a mashup from a variety of different sites (Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft Popfly, and various others) and combine them into one feed.
How in the hell does this apply to knitting you ask??? Simple I made a little knitting mashup that anyone is welcome to use: http://pipes.yahoo.com/vanderbilt/allpurledup. I took several of my favorite knitting blogs and sites and made a little mashup of them. Currently, I have it set so that it puts the sources name at the beginning of the post and only brings back the three most recent entries. The sites included so far are:
- Ravelry
- Yarn Harlot
- Knitters Review
- Lion Brand
- Knit & Tonic
- Vickie Howell
- Crazy Aunt Purl
- Mason-Dixon Knitting
The nice part about this is that you don’t even have to go to Yahoo you can further subscribe to an RSS feed that get’s emailed to you or whatever else you choose. Anywhoo, if anyone has any suggestions, for adds I’d love to hear your feedback!
