Popfly: another interesting web2.0 service

Popfly is an interesting web2.0 service provided by Microsoft. Just like Yahoo! pipes, Popfly enables people with little programming knowledge to create their own mashups and web applications. It is cool, powerful and easy to use. Comparing with Yahoo! pipes, Popfly is more flexible. There are more APIs in Popfly than in Yahoo! pipes. Additionally these APIs are easier to be used than in Yahoo! pipes, which means users may have better experience and more time to focus on what they want to build instead of understanding how to make APIs work.

My favorite Popfly is photomashup, a small but interesting game. In the game, you are controlling a plane and your mission is to destroy all the photos that fly towards you. After playing the game, you should have a look at how the game is built up. Then you can realize how simple and powerful Popfly is.

-Pan Pan

Tags: Popfly, Yahoo! Pipes, photomashup, CS 292, Web 2.0, Mashups, Microsoft