Flinging Flickrs, Hindu Temples, And Spam Maps

It's Mashup Friday again at Murdok, where we take a quick look at what's making the rounds of the mashup world. The always entertaining world of mashups as delivered by FlickrFling is an unusual application. It lets users either select from a drop-down list of feeds to sites like CNN or Wired, or enter a feed address of their choice into a form. FlickrFling then tries to match tagged photos with words it finds in those feeds, making it a way to display the news in pictures. Spam Map, I hoped it would be a mashup of locations for a traveling version of the Broadway show Spamalot. Alas, it's a mashup of sites around the world that are sending spam messages, as recorded by the Mailinator. They note the mashup runs in "semi-realtime." Clicking on a "pushpin" on the map of the world shows the IP address and subject of the spam being sent. Mailinator provides a cautionary message about the mashup: "Some subjects might have pottywords in them! Click the map at your own risk!" document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.