Melda M. Washington

Information Culture, November 26, 2012

Interesting Social Media Mashups

Overview

Introduction University Social Media Mashups Pinstagram Facespace Funny

Introduction

Social Media NOT my thing. Social media mashups

the combination of two independent social networks -- into one are all the rage right now.

Looked at Pinstagram, the combination of Pinterest and Instagram, and people seem to think its kind of cool.

Vanderbilt University

Takes their Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube, and LinkedIn and makes it into an interactive feed.

Clean presentation and content speaks for itself.

Vanderbilt University

William & Mary

William & Mary shows six posts at a time with the most recent official posts on the first window.

Receive feeds from Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumbler

Other than the official posts, they also have a filter for “official-ish” and “unofficial”.

Simple, yet functional

William & Mary

Harvard University

Incorporated twitter updates, videos, and a social media directory in a simple layout.

The top of the page highlights community life through videos and featured tweets.

The bottom has a directory which breaks down all departments’ social media accounts to find and follow.

Harvard University

John’s Hopkins

Hopkins Interactive is their social media student hub.

It incorporates student photos, tweets, and blog posts in a scrollable frame.

Primarily the focus is on content versus Twitter feed aspect of many other schools.

John’s Hopkins

Pinstagram

Is a mashup app that launched May 2012

It combines the Internet applications Instagram and Pinterest.

It presents your Instagram feed in the Pinterest signature waterfall layout.

In addition, it also lets you pin your favorite Instagram photos to your Pinterest boards.

Pinstagram

Facespace

November 2010, MySpace 'Mashup' adds Facebook Connect

MySpace users can use Facebook Connect to get updates streamed to their MySpace accounts from things they have "liked" on Facebook.

User comments: "What’s a myspace?" "Why does MySpace still exist?" "yawn“

http://vimeo.com/16974783

Facespace

Funny Social Media Mashups

Facesquare Prove to your crush that you love them

more than anyone else by checking into his or her Facebook profile over and over and over…

LinkedInstagram Filtered photos of your curriculum vitae.

Angry Birds With Friends Alternate every other bird you fling with a

friend in the slowest iPhone game of all time.

Other Social Media Mashups

CNETflix For just $7.99 per month, you can read all

the CNET reviews you want. For an additional $7.99, CNET will print them out and mail them to your house.

Hulu-gle+ Paid access to Google’s struggling social

network, except you still have to watch commercials every 15 minutes, even though you’re paying.

Other Social Media Mashups

Instagramdora This mashup of Pandora and Instagram lets

you know that if you like this heavily-filtered photo of a puppy wearing sunglasses, you will also probably like this other heavily-filtered photo of a puppy wearing sunglasses.

FoursquayPal Check into your own bank account

whenever you’re making a deposit or withdrawal. Hopefully you’re the mayor!

Other Social Media Mashups

SpotiFySpace Just like Spotify, except all the music is

recorded in a garage by a bunch of 16-year-olds from Idaho and never stops playing even if you eventually find the pause button.

Questions?

References

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/11-social-media-mashups-we-never-want-to-see_n_1477282.html

http://blog.inigral.com/top-social-media-mashups-from-private-universities/

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=Social&sort=mashups