Mashpedia aggregates multiple web feeds (streams of content from different sources) into structured articles about specific, encyclopedic terms, historic events and popular individuals, groups, organizations, companies, etc.
Every article provides a basic definition of the term, along with the most relevant videos about it, a stream of current Twitter messages, latest news, images, blog posts and links. Mashpedia also offers semantic connections between the articles, in form of links.
The web is continually growing more open and more social. Because of this, many websites have opened up programming interfaces (API’s) that allow developers to get at their core information.
Our name comes from the concept of Mashup, which in the web lingo means a combination of multiple feeds into a single page; the "pedia' suffix comes from EncycloPEDIA. A mashup is a web application combining different API’s to provide a new Internet experience, harnessing the latest web technologies.
We realized that many people wanted to learn about their topics of interest beyond the reach of Wikipedia and similar sites, demanding even more content and context.
Yes, and it will always stay that way.
By placing contextual ads.
Some ambiguous terms provide a few inaccurate elements at this point, due to the real-time nature of our application, but experimenting and trying to understand the possibilities will provide insight into the workings of Mashpedia and the eventual possibilities.
Mashpedia was founded and is run by Juan Sosa
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