Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] Smashups: Christine Aguilera does web applications

[Paul]

I always thought it was when you were "havin' it larrrrge".

Well, it was for me anyway.

Paul.



Duncan Hull wrote:
> Hello Leslie
>
> Leslie Carr wrote:
> > Why did the word 'mash' come to be used in this context? Obviously it 
> > is because of a culinary analogy.
> One of the original uses of the term mashup is from music [1,2] and 
> more recently, video. Christine Aguilera vs. the Strokes is a classic 
> example, but there are many others.
>
> Less "mashed potato", more "potato fusion cuisine" if you like...
>
> The journal Nature have taken it to mean something slightly different 
> in the context of scientific web applications [3].
>
> Duncan
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mash-Up_songs
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup
> [3] http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/439006a