The internet provides many free online data sources, mashup makers and situational application tools. These tools are in various states of maturity. Some offer good support; others are 'as-is'.


Data Sources, Mashups and Situational Applications

Name and Description	More Information
Dapper:Easily provide new means for people to access your content (such as RSS). You can use Dapper to create feeds, widgets, and APIs with your content and links.	Watch an intro to dapper
DAMIA: Through a Web-based interface, IBM DAMIA provides easy-to-use tools that developers and IT users alike can use to quickly assemble data feeds from the Internet and a variety of enterprise data sources.	An IBM Alphaworks data mashup maker. Not quite 'all there yet', but a reasonable tool set for the more technically inclined
Magic/Replace is a tool to make changes to all of the rows of a data table at once.	Nifty free tool that can be used to 'reformat' spreadsheet data.
QEDWiki: QEDWiki is a browser-based assembly canvas used to create simple mashups. A mashup maker is an assembly environment in which the creator of a mashup uses software components (or services) made available by content providers.	An IBM Alphaworks situational application mashup maker. A nice tool set for the more technically inclined.
Yahoo Pipies: Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.	Yahoo application that provides simple commands to create output that meets your needs