April 11, 2005

Hyper-User-Produced Content: Google & Craigslist Mash Up

by Guy Brighton

GoogleWe are living in a world of hyper-user-produced content. Consumers take companies offerings and manipulate them to create their own original content like Podcasts for example.

For some consumer-producers, even the offerings provided by forward thinking companies like Google and Craigslist seems not to be enough: check out how one hyper-user, Paul Rademacher, mashed-up Google Maps with Craigslist Classifieds to produce a site where you can map by price range all the properties for sale or rent in your local area.

Craigslist Properties Google Mapped

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3 Responses to “Hyper-User-Produced Content: Google & Craigslist Mash Up”

  1. JT Barnhart
    Posted from: 71.97.150.118

    April 11th, 2005 at 5:09 pm

    Takes a while to load but it’s bloody brilliant.

  2. Zoe Tales
    Posted from: 72.9.234.70

    April 11th, 2005 at 6:00 pm

    Makes Me Want to Rent - Almost

    This genius site almost makes me want to be a renter again - almost. :-)

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    May 2nd, 2005 at 9:04 am

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