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The country's new robots.txt file. UK government wants to mash it up. Show Us a Better Way. Creative Block? Try Moodstream - ReadWriteWeb. The world's largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, this week released a new mashup that leans on the company's vast stock image and audio assets. The flash app called Moodstream draws on Getty's photo, video, and audio collections to create what the company calls a "powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions.

" The mashup debuted earlier this week at the Webby Award Film and Video Awards after party in New York. Moodstream adjusts its output based on settings users input via sliders that describe their state of mind. Happy to Sad, Humorous to Serious, etc. Users can also control the type of transitions between image assets, the amount of color vs. black and white imagery, and the type of music. The app comes with 6 preset moods as well. Once you've entered your mood settings, the application delivers a steady stream of video clips and still images set to short snippets of music. What is Moodstream? He's certainly right about the last part. Make Mashups Using Your Own Data with geoXtract - ReadWriteWeb.

GeoXtract is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate your own data with Google Maps or Google Earth. Using this desktop application, you can create a personalized map with no programming experience required. Using your own data source, which can be an Excel Spreadsheet (.xls), Access database (.mdb), or Comma-Separated Values file (.csv), geoXtract walks you through the process of creating a mashup. The program uses a wizard that helps you with the data selection, configuration, processing, and publishing of your data into either Google Maps or Google Earth. GeoXtract doesn't require you do do any manual processing of your data or programming and you don't even have to modify your data set in any particular way prior to using the program.The map created by the program can be published to the geoXtract web site, to your own site, or simply saved to your computer.

Here's an example of a map made with geoXtract showing Clearwater, Florida beach motels: