First look, Google Mashup Editor

by Chris Gilmer on July 9, 2007 at 01:00 PM

At the Google Developer Day a little while ago, Google announced a Mashup Editor that they were releasing. It was by invitation only, and known as an interactive development environment that would allow users to edit, compile, test and manage applications.

We recently got the opportunity to check out the interface, and play around with it a bit. The Google Mashup Editor is built off of an AJAX development framework, and supplies users a set of tools that users can quickly and easily create simple web applications, smashups, and Google Gadgets using Google's applications like Google Maps. As long as you have a familiarity with XML, JavaScript, CSS and HTML you can build smashups. Of course there are ways that advanced developers can take advantage of the Smashup Editor, and its starts with using the JavaScript API.

After a smashup has been created using the reusable modules, users can test it in the Sandbox, and then publish it to a sub domain under googlemashups.com. Google does all the work there, from setting up the server, hosting, database and authentication.

Check out some samples of smashups created with the tool:

Got a Google Mashup to show off? Drop us a line.