Popfly mashups

Yesterday I got an invite from the Microsoft Popfly team to test their mashups. For creating these mashups we need Microsoft Silverlight as a pre-requisite. Then there was a 5 step tutorial available to begin with. This is a mashup that gets pictures from the live image search website and animate them on a rotating sphere.



Step 1:

Find the Item labeled Live Image Search in the list on the left. These items are called blocks because you build your mashups with them.



Step 2:

Drag the Live Image Search block into the middle of the screen. This area is called design surface because it’s where you design stuff you make. Click on the wrench beside the block to zoom in. Change the query to whatever you want cats, monster trucks. Click on the wrench to get back to the design surface.



Step 3:

Find an item named PhotoSphere and drag it into the middle of the screen.



Step 4:

Click once on the Live Image Search block and then once on the PhotoSphere block. This will connect them and make a mashup.

Step 5:

Click on the preview link at the top of the design surface to play with your mashup.

Live Image Search is a control responsible to get the images we have queried, PhotoSphere is a control to display these images in a sphere and the functionalities of these 2 websites are combined to form a mashup.



Really exciting right? If you guys want to test this integrating more than 100’s of web applications Just give a comment to this post along with your mail ID.