Jay Meydad's Life Mashup

Just tried out the new Gizmoz that was re-launched today with a nice pinky skin and a new logo. Their technology is pretty cool and the animated avatars that you can create & share are sweet.

It was a bit difficult to find a front face photo that meets their strict guidelines and I wonder if this might harm conversion rates…on the other hand it could create some business to passport photos‘ photographers (also known in Hebrew as ???? ???).

Anyway, nice job Eldad.

I read some of the coverage around the blogesphere about Popfly, Microsoft latest innovation, and I am anxious to get the invitation email and start playing with it.

I felt the same when Yahoo Pipes came out but after playing with it for a while my enthusiasm ended since the capabilities were very limited and allowed creation of a limited types of mashups.

Popfly might turn to be different and big. Here’s why?

• The design tool looks amazing
• It could span a large social network for mashupers
• A site hosted on a .ms tld – not something you’d expect from “Microsoft”…
• Ducks

Here’s one example of a mashup created using Popfly.

BTW, you need to install Silverlight before accessing the page.