Denis’ Blog

Mashing up Web apps is the new buzz concept. According to the wikipedia definition, a mash-up is ” a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience”.

More than buzz, that’s one of the most important point of the new web paradigm: Being able in a few minutes to assemble different internet services:

- Assemble Salesforces.com web services with Google maps to see the last deal you closed by geographically.

- Assemble ebay web services and paypal ones to create an online shop without a 1ko of storage and CPU. This demo is one of the favorite of one of the mash-up evangelist-before-the-term-even-occurs, namely Jean-Paul Figer from Capgemini

Ning.com is a service to assemble services. Many more to come.

Linux guys usually say “Put back fin into computing. Use Linux”. I feel that Web 2.0 is bringing back fun to the Web !

I’ve played with the beta of Riya, a service to store your photos and… automatically recognize people shooted.

You know what?

It works. It works amazingly well. I’ve uploaded a few hundreds photos. Tagging is fast, “a la” Flickr, full web 2.0 compliant. Give Riya a few photos with the same person, name her and…. it recognizes her on all other photos. Except for my sister in law ( Riya refuses to recognise her, is there a message ? ) , it worked for all my family.

The thing that shakes me is for my older boy: I gave pictures where he was from 6 months to 3 years. Guess what? Riya recognizes all the photos where my sun was… He is 7 years old now !!

Give a try to Riya. It really rocks.