The Mindjet Labs

Since I created my first mashup with Popfly over a year ago, it has really come a long way.  Now it is really easy to create your own blocks and share your mashup creations.  For those of use who have blogs, the RSS feed is a way of life - it...(read more)

Lauren Cooney at IBM came up with this idea on her blog : What I'd like to see? An app that utilizes the Open APIs that Facebook and Twitter have so that I can figure out which of my 500 FB friends use Twitter. Anyone interested in building this for Web...(read more)

I have been showing off Popfly as a great example of a Silverlight 1.0 application but my colleague David Chou has gone even deeper with this post about Popfly as a Platform : Popfly provides an environment where people without a significant technical...(read more)

Over the weekend, my challenge was to learn about OpenSocial and create a Silverlight application that uses it. I did that, with this simple application . To take advantage of the OpenSocial implementation in Orkut sandbox, you have to create a Google...(read more)

After getting two similar questions from colleagues today about my first OpenSocial application , it struck me that the perceptions and reality of OpenSocial are a bit confused. My colleague Dare Obasanjo describes it succinctly in five sentences (with...(read more)

I'm having a blast with Popfly, Microsoft's Silverlight-based mash-up designers. I've created a block that uses AOL Video Search and made a simple page that shows the results of what it does. I fell as if I'm just scratching the surface of something really...(read more)

I just sat through an earthquake; a bit shaking but nothing damaged; no one was hurt.  That gave me an idea: why don't I show earthquakes on a Virtual Earth Map using Popfly, Microsoft's new mashup service? Get Geo-RSS Data from the USGS Convert the RSS Items to Virtual Earth Pushpins Here are the Magnitude 5+ earthquakes for the past 7 ...

I've decided to share the source code for my SilverlightMap project that converts Mindjet MindManager maps to Silverlight application in two venues: Windows Live SkyDrive and Popfly. Windows Live SkyDrive Microsoft Popfly If you want to contribute and participate in the project you can try the new Popfly service.  Download the Popfly ...