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My First Mashup

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• Author: Adam Gartenberg
• July 17, 2008
• Category:  InfoSphere  Greenhouse  IBM  Lotus  Mashup 

So I'm 45 minutes into a meeting with the InfoSphere Mashup marketing team, and they called me out.  

"Adam, can I ask you a question?  Be honest... have you created a mashup yet?"

[guilty voice]"Ummm, noooo...."

Okay, they caught me.  Sorry, guys.

But fortunately, thanks to the Lotus Greenhouse, this is a situation that is easily remedied.  In fact, so easy that before the end of the meeting I was able to change my answer to an enthusiastic "yes."

In fact, it was so easy to do that in the interest of time (and multitasking), I was able to skip over the getting started tutorial and introductory demo for Lotus Mashups, and dive right in and still figure things out.

So without further ado - My First Mashup:  Taking their sample customer list and wiring it to the Accuweather widget to automatically show the weather at the headquarters for the customer I selected.





Even the wiring process includes step-by-step instructions:


And like I said, that was a real quick-and-dirty one.

Next I headed over to the InfoSphere MashupHub, where this time I did follow one of their samples to create a mashup that shows insurance policy holders who live in areas under weather advisory alerts.  As above, it really couldn't be easier, and I plan to go back and spend some time exploring the other data and mashups that have been created (and maybe look to upload some data of my own).




So, now that I've gotten that off my chest, it's my turn to ask all of you:

"Be honest... have YOU created your first mashup yet?"

Links:

• InfoSphere Mashups on Lotus Greenhouse
• InfoSphere Mashup Center homepage
• Mix and Mash Blog

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