So it seems my server got overloaded due to the excessive api calls my lastest mashup was making to the last.fm server. This did work fine when I had it running locally, I may post a video of it in action instead of the demo. In the meantime I am thinking of another tool. The other day I worked out how much my iTunes collection was worth based on 79p/track. The figure was over £18k!! Maybe a little tool to work out your last.fm value based on your plays would be fun, if I was feeling cheeky this could be linked to how popular each artist was. It may even be nice to plot these against your friends...

A month or so ago I hacked the last.fm for wordpress plugin to allow for integration with Spotify. The basic  idea was that the plugin would pull in your recently played tracks and then allow users to open those tracks directly within Spotify by clicking on a green note. A had a spare two hours this morning so decided to see what I could make in that time. This new mash-up is a little different. You give it your Last.fm username and it will go and find your top artists. It then uses this to find the top tags for each of those artists. It then orders the tags by the amount of times they occur across...

I’ve have created my first true web mash-up using Flash and the Google Maps API. Firstly check it out here, and then head back to read the steps involved. Note! At the moment I have manually limited the search to UK and there is no option to remove a marker/pin. I was first inspired to create this after stumbling across the GMap Flash component from AFC. I liked the idea of having the Google Maps experience within Flash. As a Flash developer I have more control and flexibility over how the application would work. I could also add my own interface around the component and integrate it into...