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It has been a while since I posted a visualization on mashups. Here is a new one. I have highlighted some of the platform providers as diamonds in the picture. Since my last visualization in 2007, Twitter is one new player that has emerged as central to the ecosystem. A whole slew of applications have been created to run on the Twitter platform. Amazon and Facebook applications have also entered into the picture. As I think about mashups, I think they are the early examples of applications that run on clouds. One can think of the diamonds as cloud platforms and the circles as applications that run on these clouds. I am sure thta there are other plaforms that I'm missing in my highlights. I have started a new project on this topic and will post more visuals on this as my understanding of the domain improves.

The data for this visualization was provided by programmableweb.com

Posted by Bala Iyer on Sun, May 10, 2009 @ 08:39 AM

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Dear Bala, 
 
I was wondering how your dataset could potentially be extended to further enrich your visualisations. Presently, I can't really discern what the x,y coordinates mean and how warm certain relationships are. Do you think we could further annotate this information? 
 
Slinger Jansen 
Utrecht University

posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 1:48 AM by Slinger Jansen

If I understand you point correctly, I would color code the links based on number of mashups that exist between two nodes. Would that help?

posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 5:50 AM by Bala Iyer

Thanks for your quick reply! I gather the sun came up in your parts as well.  
 
To be completely honest I didn't know what to expect from your reply. Can you show me a sample of the data set you're working with? I would like to further annotate the data set, and improve the visualization accordingly. 
 
One thing that interests me is how subordinate these relationships are, what innovations have led to a certain development in a series of images, etc. So yes, adding color would be an interesting start.

posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 7:20 AM by Slinger Jansen

In 2006 and 07, I created several pictures that had link types as part of the rendering. Please take a look at those in the same blog and let me know if they help. The data itself is from programmableweb.com. They have created APIs for you to extract this data.

posted on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM by Bala Iyer

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