my recent reads..

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Power Sources and Supplies: World Class Designs
Red Storm Rising
Locked On
Analog Circuits Cookbook
The Teeth Of The Tiger
Sharpe's Gold
Without Remorse
Practical Oscillator Handbook
Red Rabbit

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Popflying the Oracle Community

Back last year I got all excited about Yahoo Pipes ( Web 2.0 Wake-up Call for BPEL? ) and its graphical approach to building mashups. In fact I still use a Pipes mashup as my mega-aggregated Oracle newsfeed.

Now I've discovered a new toy - Microsoft Popfly - and finally a reason to install Silverlight! I remember popfly getting mentioned in Bex Huff's roundup of mashup tools last year, but at the time it was still in restricted beta.

Popfly's still in beta, but now open to one and all. Put aside your biases for a minute and go play ... if you are like me, it will blow your mind. It may not be the final word in mashup tools, but it sure opens your mind to what should be possible.

Here's a little mashup I created 5 minutes up the learning curve. It's a cute display of the latest photos posted to the Oracle Community site:


Postscript: yes, you do need Silverlight installed for this to work of course. Silverlight is available for "all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows". If you are not prompted automatically for the Silverlight install, visit the Silverlight site.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

silverlight - for when you want to pretend everyone runs windows and IE.

Anonymous said...

"This content requires Microsoft Silverlight. The browser you are currently using is not Silverlight enabled. Please give this a try with Microsoft Internet Explorer (32-bit) or Mozilla Firefox."

Is *is* Mozilla Firefox.

Unknown said...

Yes, silverlight is required for popfly. I'm looking at it running in Firefox 2.0.0.9 right now (also IE7)

Kianhui said...

It works fine on Flock 1.0.8. Very cool.

Eddie Awad said...

This Silverlight / Oracle Community mashup looks pretty cool! Now I'll have to go play with popfly...