Mark Johnston's Blog : Popfly

Imagine Cup UK - The winners story

markjo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:28:18 GMT

It seems like a lifetime ago that we held the Imagine Cup UK finals in London and over 150 students, partners and press came together to see what the competition was all about and how students were helping to fight climate change.

Ben and Dominic won the Software Design competition, and after competing at the worldwide finals in Paris, and their prize was to travel to Redmond (Microsoft HQ) in Seattle to shadow the Popfly team and work on a project. They took a video camera with them to document their experiences and what an experience it was!

Game and Embedded winners also are working at Rare Game Studios and MPC Data locally in the UK for their prize. Hopefully they will blog their experiences as well.

Popfly Human style

markjo — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:30:19 GMT

I caught this one via JohnMont's blog where the Popfly team demonstrate how to build a Facebook mash-up using....themselves!

For more on what a mashup is, check out Eileen's blog post from BETT.

And the video of course is here - http://www.popfly.com/Videos/?video=liLiveAction (The lad with the arrow is my good friend and former UK Imagine Cup winner Andy Sterland!!)

Popfly is top website to watch!

markjo — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:39:15 GMT

PCWorld named Popfly as one of it's top 25 websites to watch and I guess is #1 as it's right at the top of the list!

Here's the blurb on what PCWorld have to say:

"If you haven't already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft's Popfly is a good place to start. Mashups combine multiple Web-based sites or applications to produce all sorts of useful things, such as an overlay of traffic information over Google Maps. With Popfly, you can create your own mashups--and you don't have to know a lick of code to do it. Just drag prefab building blocks, connect them, and you have an instant mashup that you can add to an existing Web page or turn into its own site. For example, you can easily produce a mashup that grabs pictures from a site like Flickr and then displays them in a rotating cube"

This is great news as the site has been built on Silverlight but even more than that for me is that a very good friend Andy Sterland is one of the Program Managers on the team. I'd like to say I had a small part to play in the success of Popfly as I recommended Andy to his boss John Montgomery after knowing and working with Andy here in the UK. With people like Andy on board I know the Popfly service is going to rock!

I wrote an article on Popfly for our MSDN Flash (go sign up if you are a professional developer, it's getting even better!) - Popfly: the mash-up revolution

Congrats to the Popfly team!

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