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Check out the daily and monthly Mashup Award winners (also subscribe to their RSS feed).

What is a "mashup" anyway...

"In technology, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; an example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data from Craigslist, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source.
Mashup originally referred to the practice in pop music (notably hip-hop) of producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces. Mashups currently come in three general flavors: consumer mashups, data mashups, and business mashups.
The best known type is the consumer mashup, best exemplified by the many Google Maps applications. Consumer mashups combine data elements from multiple sources, hiding this behind a simple unified graphical interface." [Wikipedia]

Three of the most common editors to use to create mashups are Google Mashup Editor, Yahoo Pipes and Microsoft's Popfly. There's a great section on the Mashup Awards page about the process of creating a mashup.

Have you seen a mashup lately that you think would really help library customers? Have you used any mashups with library customers?