The most important foundation for mashups is combining multiple data sources into new views and create added value and insight into the data, wheter those data are location data, financial data, information data, etc.

How do most people know their data today. Not as tables in a database, or data behind API’s interfaces like SOAP and REST, no!, we know them from our web browser. The data we ind our mind want to mash up are the data we see while working with our favorite web applications or web sites.

Those are the data we think about and those are the data our brain digest and transform into those new genious ideas for mashups.

Openkapow gives you exactly this. Access to the data as you know them. Here and now, self service.

I encourage you to download RoboMaker, read the tutorals, and get access to the data as you know them, from your web browser.

Access the data in standard API’s like REST, ATOM and RSS, easily consumable by any mashup builder, that being Yahoo Pipes, Google Gadgets, Teqlo, IBM QedWiki, Ruby on Rails, or just plain Excel.

Best of luck with it