{"id":260,"date":"2015-08-29T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/microsoft-popfly\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:09:50","slug":"microsoft-popfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/microsoft-popfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Popfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popfly.ms\/\">Microsoft Popfly<\/a> is based on their Silverlight software (their version of flash).<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nThe alpha release has a drag-and-drop mashup creator that is really amazing. Elements of the mashups are called &#8216;blocks&#8217;, and you can drag blocks onto the desktop and connect them. Information items are selected from drop-down menus &#8211; no programming language required. One of the drawbacks at this early stage is that they don&#8217;t play nicely with existing flash files, so some of the potential mashups give an error message (example &#8211; library book photos do not display). There are currently more than 250 blocks (data sources) to &#8216;mash&#8217; with, so that&#8217;s quite a nice little sandbox for developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Popfly is based on their Silverlight software (their version of flash). The alpha release has a drag-and-drop mashup creator that is really amazing. Elements of the mashups are called &#8216;blocks&#8217;, and you can drag blocks onto the desktop and connect them. Information items are selected from drop-down menus &#8211; no programming language required. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}