Tutorial

Microsoft Popfly is the fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It’s made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

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Tutorial on how to use VENews

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Simple tutorial on how to create Mashup application

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HTML version of Tutorial

Step 1: Drag a RSS block from the Block colum to the stage.

 

Step 2 : Double click on the RSS block on the stage, and key in the URL of the RSS feed that you want to see. After finish, click "OK" button.

 

Step 3 : Search for locationIdentifier above the block column.

 

Step 4 : Drag the LocationIdentifier block to the stage and link RSS block to LocationIdentifier block.

 

Step 5 : Double click on LocationIdentifier on the stage, then select description, title and link from the RSS. After that, click the "OK" button.

 

Step 6 : After that drag the Virtual Earth block to the stage and link LocationIdentifier block to Virtual Earth block.

 

Step 7 : Double click on the Virtual Earth block on the stage, then select Latitude, Longitude, title and description from LocationIdentifier block output. After that click on the "OK" button.

 

Step 8 : Then it's done! It's Simple and easy to do it! After that just click on the "RUN" button on the top left of the stage to test the mashup application!