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At last: Firefox 3 support
By Robert Ennals (...Posted April 8th 20081
I know we've been a bit late with this, but it's now here. We just pushed out a new version (0.42) that finally has Firefox support. This still isn't as well tested under Firefox 3 as under Firefox 2, but it seems to work pretty well. Let us know what you think...
Interview Video from Mashup Camp
By Robert Ennals (...Posted April 7th 20081
When I was at Mashup Camp a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Fritz Nelson of Information Week. The video is now available on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp2ZptXDdOU
Explore Mashups with the Mashup Showcase
By Robert Ennals (...Posted April 3rd 20080
This is another feature that comes with the new 0.4 release. The Mash Maker web site now has a Mashup Showcase, listing mashups that we like: http://mashmaker.intel.com/docweb/browsemash.php If you click on one of these mashups from within Mash Maker it will take you directly to the example page ...
The Extractor Editor no longer Sucks
By Robert Ennals (...Posted March 31st 20083
This post is about another of the new features that have just appeared in the new 0.4 release that we have just pushed out. The Mash Maker extractor editor has now seen a major overhaul and is now much closer to being ready for widespread use. The old "structure" first model has now been replaced ...
New Layout Engine - Now put widgets anywhere
By Robert Ennals (...Posted March 31st 20080
This post is about another of the new features that just came out in the new 0.4 release. We have now finally switched Mash Maker to the new layout engine. This is one that has been coming for some time, and I'm pleased that we now finally have it out. Gone are the days of widgets appearing in the ...
Google Gadgets are Here
By Robert Ennals (...Posted March 31st 20080
We just pushed out a new version of Mash Maker that has lots of new features. I'll be addressing each of these in a separate blog post. One of the first things you will probably notice when you install the new version is that the number of available widgets has significantly increased. This is ...
The Mash Maker Widget API is now Open!
By Robert Ennals (...Posted March 18th 20085
At Mashup University on Monday the 17th of March we launched a new Open API for creating your own widgets that run inside Mash Maker: http://mashmaker.intel.com/docweb/Widget_API.html The API is very simple. If you can write a web page with javascript then you should be able to write a widget. It ...
YouTube video from our Open House
By Robert Ennals (...Posted March 10th 20084
Our lab (Intel Research Berkeley) had an Open House event on Thursday where we invited people in to see the stuff we do. During that event, someone recorded the following video of me talking about Mash Maker: ...
Big Changes: It's a whole new infrastructure
By Robert Ennals (...Posted February 21st 20084
We just uploaded a new version of Mash Maker, and this is a big one. We've learned a lot from all the testing you guys have been doing and decided it was time to do a thorough overhaul of the Mash Maker architecture. In particular:Widgets: You wanted to do more with your mashups than what was ...
New Copy/Paste Mashup Editing UI
By Robert Ennals (...Posted December 9th 200714
We've just uploaded a new mash maker version. Probably the biggest new feature of this version is an improved user interface for editing copy/paste enhancements. Now one can preview an enhancement before publishing it (well duh!) and the enhancement is described as a simple plain-english paragraph ...

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