1) http://people.emich.edu/mchiang4/MapYourBuddies/
2) http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/sacramento-crime-tracker
3) http://new-york-ny.hotelreservations.cc/
I think that MapYourBuddies is actually pretty creepy. Mashing up Facebook, Amazon, eCommerce, and Google Maps, MapYourBuddies locates Facebook friends on Google Maps and recommends gifts for them, presumably based on the interest sections from Facebook profiles. Amazon donating gift ideas is pretty cool, even though they're probably not that creative, but why exactly is Google Maps necessary?
Sacramento crime tracker uses Google Maps to record all of the crime in different neighborhoods over the past few years. This is a cool idea, and I chose Sacramento in particular because that's where my parents live. This is a useful application of Google Maps (unlike the records of all Berlin's public ping pong tables that I found).
The third cool Mashup I found was a site with travel guides including YouTube video guides for the top ten United States cities. I think this is a cool idea, but it would be better if there were more cities represented.
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