Return on Intention

A mash up is when you take two things and make them work together to create something new. A good example of this is gruvr.com. Gruvr uses google maps to show users where local live music will be and pinpoint it on the map. Gruvr didn’t write the map software, they just use googles. 

Mashups allow developers to create more value out of existing tools. The only problem is you have to be a developer to know how to do it. Mozilla doesn’t think thats a good idea. Mozilla thinks everyone should be able to do it. To make this happen, they have introduced Ubiquity.  Ubiquity allows you web browser to do the work for you, and then gives you what you wanted by asking it in plain english (other languages to follow presumably), not computer code.

This could have really great future ramifications, so go check it out. There is a video a little way down the page that has some examples.

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