Mashups

Mashup: uses data from different web application into a single web tool.

Back to the earth science theme, I found a program called Earthquakes. This widget displays concentric circles around the world showing the relative power and reach of earthquakes as they happen. This another great tool to use for earth science classrooms. Rivers of the World is an interesting mashup that combines an interactive map about rivers. You can find a river and click on it for pictures. It is slow to respond and does not have a lot of information yet. However, I could see something like this being of use to river rafters, kayakers, and geographers. The final mashup was Searchbay. This is a search mashup for comparison-shopping that combines eBay, uBid, Amazon and Overstock results. I will definitely use this in the future to comparison shop.