Simon Willison’s Weblog

Farewell to Mashup Editor. It’s not just Microsoft Popfly that’s shutting down—Google Mashup Editor will be gone in four weeks time (this was announced in January). You get to keep your code, but I don’t know enough about Mashup Editor to know if the code is usable once the system has shut down.

# 17th July 2009, 1:05 pm / googlemashupeditor, google, microsoft, popfly, sharecropping

Popfly Shutting Down. Yet another reminder that building stuff on a closed-source platform (especially a hosted service) is risky business, even from a vendor as large as Microsoft. This certainly won’t help them make the case for Azure.

# 17th July 2009, 9:32 am / open-source, closedsource, microsoft, azure, popfly, sharecropping