Competing to create ‘mash-up’ apps
By Peter Price
BBC News – Click to read this at bbc.co.uk/news
We sent our resident coder Peter to Alexandra Palace in North London – on the longest day of the year – for an event which brought together hundreds of wannabe hackers: Mashed.
The term “mash-up” means combining two applications to make something different.
They were conceived in the second wave of dotcom fervour out on the west coast of the US, but they have worked their way firmly across the Atlantic.
After joining a team, he had just 24 hours to create a beautiful new blend from two existing applications.
The feature was broadcast on BBC News 24 and BBC World