What is Popfly?

There's a lot of talk about Popfly now. It's a new web application to create Mashups. Mashups is a fusion of information and application based on various web-based sources. A Mashup may for instance link new, video, photo, maps etc together in an integrated application. In Popfly You can easily build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts:
1. Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.
2. Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

Check out the Popfly webcast and You will get the big picture.

Popfly builds of the new Microsoft technology Silverlight, which is a crossplatform browser plug-in. A a first glance it seems similar to Flash, but I would not take that comparison any further at this point. There's also a webcast out there about how to integrate Popfly and MOSS: Popfly-SharePoint integration.

I'm requesting an invitation to the Popfly alpha at www. popfly.com. I'm now waiting impatiently...


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