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Intel has released “Mash Maker“, another mashup maker to join those from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. This one’s a bit different, though:

• It’s not a stand-alone web app, but installs as a toolbar on your browser
• As you visit sites that lend themselves to mashups, Mash Maker will suggest possible mashups to you based on the site content and structure
• You can add data from one website to that from another website with a simple copy-and-paste function, mashing up data from both sites simultaneously
• The interface is simple and easy to use, albeit not with the same flexibility and power as the other mashup makers
• Mash Maker extracts data and determines possible mashups using a structure/semantic model for specific websites generated by users and stored on their server. If you find a website for which no structure/semantic model has been created,  you can create a new one that will let others create mashups with that site. You can also modify a current model to add new capabilities.
• Google Maps mashups, of course, but also ones that let you create tables, annotate items, and join data from one website with that of another.

Visit the Mash Maker page to sign up and for more info; you can view examples of its use on the Video page.

Via Slashdot.