Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

What is does the "Web as Platform" mean?

Historically, some types of software like desktop operating systems have been called 'platforms' because through their APIs they provide the foundation on which other programs are built. The phrase 'web as platform' refers to fact that as web sites start providing their own APIs, they too are becoming a platform on which other programs can be built. Sometimes this is also referred to as the Internet Operating System.

John Boswell, the musician and producer behind the Symphony of Science. The goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public, in a novel way, through the medium of music.

Conceived as a global network for digital studies, Critical Digital Studies: A Reader represents a new style of thought directly emergent from net culture itself. Inspired by the same digital spirit that gave rise to the Open Architecture Movement, Shareware, and Web 2.0, Critical Digital Studies may be visualized as a creative mashup -- a method of critical digital studies which creatively mixes the very traditional human demand to understand the world in which we live with new ways of analyzing, relating, communicating, and living that is digital reality today.

The Recombinant DNA of the Mash-Up
Milestones in sonic marriages over the past 104 years.