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65amp.com launched! Why everyone needs a mashup?

I left the corporate world back in late 2007 to pursue a business idea. It was an idea that I thought it was obvious to have been implemented, yet I don’t see it on the web at that time. To work on the idea, I knew I need to learn web development skills, an area which I have never touch on during my Computer Science course (shame on me). I joined a small company as a Flex developer, and learned as much as I could. Then in July 2008, I once again tender my resignation to officially kick off my startup. After a 10 months roller-coaster ride, I finally got it launched – http://65amp.com

It is a mashup publishing platform that allows users to integrate their existing contents from various sites into a single page so that friends can access all the users’ contents from a single place. Why is this a much needed product? Let’s travel back a few years from now. When blogging came out, it was a hit because people have yearn to publish themselves but the hassle of learning html and hosting a site was too much of a trouble. Blogging, on the other hand, allow everyone to own a place on the net, to express their thoughts and to communicate with others. But soon, people want something more than text content. So came the waves of sites offering photo management services like Flickr and Photobucket. Then came videos (yes YouTube). And now feeds (Twitter, Friendfeed). With all these services, each offering a segment of contents, a user online identity gets disperse since a person who like reading your blog wouldn’t know what other contents (images, videos) you have contributed online. Hence, it seems rational that a whole-new publishing platform that can integrate contents from various sources are needed at this moment.

Aggregating use contents is nothing new. Many sites do it, with the majority chose to present the aggregate contents in chronological order (FriendFeed, Storytlr). I thought my approach is better and so 65amp was born. It’s currently still in Alpha version, and I’m open up to feedbacks to improve the site.

Here’s a short demo of how to create a mashup in 65amp. Let me know what your thoughts.