Mashup Tutorials for the New Year

Posted by Jason Cooper, Google Mashup Editor Team

Happy New Year! With 2008 now in full swing, the Google Mashup Editor team has returned to work and is actively preparing a host of exciting updates for the coming year. In the meantime, the new screencast gallery is bustling with four tutorials, the latest of which demonstrates how to leverage GME's integration with Google Gadgets by adding a simple mashup to iGoogle. Several new screencasts are already in the works and should be added to the gallery in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back often. And, as always, the mashup gallery and discussion board are available if you're in need of a quick GME fix.

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From Mashup Editor to App Engine

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

As we announced today on the Google Code Blog, we will be shutting down the Mashup Editor in six months. While it is always hard to say goodbye to a product, when we launched the Mashup Editor as a private beta last year, we did so to better understand the needs of you, our developers. And you spoke, and much of what we learned together is now a big part of App Engine, the new infrastructure for hosted developer applications. We look forward to working with you in the migration to App Engine, and can't wait to see what you build.

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Farewell to Mashup Editor

Posted by Eric Tholomé, Director, Developer Products

We had announced back in January that we would be shutting down the Mashup Editor in six months, and that time has come. Since a few of you still have applications running on the Mashup Editor, we decided to give you some extra time - 4 weeks. You can use this time to migrate your application to App Engine or any other infrastructure, or simply retrieve your data. We encourage you to replace your application as soon as possible with a static page giving useful information to your users about where to go. On August 12th, all traffic to the Mashup Editor will be redirected to a generic page. Note that your code is available on Project Hosting at http://code.google.com/p/mashup-{username}-{app name} (where non-supported characters are replaced by '-') and will remain available there for the foreseable future, but your data will not be accessible beyond August 12th. We've factored most of our learning from the Mashup Editor into App Engine, so we hope you'll give it a try if you haven't yet.

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