PubStop offers a diversion on the way from London to Canterbury at The Swan on the Green in West Peckham.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK web host 34SP.com (www.34sp.com) has named “PubStop” the winning entry of its first ever “Pub Mashup Competition,” which challenged participants to create a mashup that had anything to do with pubs.
Mashups are web applications that combine data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application, frequently created by re-tooling open APIs and data sources such as Google or Twitter to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data.
Phil Ronan’s pub mashup, PubStop, finds the closest pubs to a motor route, helping a driver determine the location of the nearest pint, or even re-route their driving directions to include a stop at the pub. This somewhat alarming mashup of drinking and driving won Ronan a cash prize and the use of a virtual private server for a year.
PubStop was selected as a winner by a panel of 34SP.com employees, and the entries were judged on originality, functionality, robustness, “betterment of the greater pub community,” and being fun and engaging.
Runners up included Keane Ingram’s “The Sam Smith’s Challenge,” which shows a map of all the Sam Smith’s pubs in London, and Ollie O’Brien’s “Map of UK Scenicness…and Pubs.”
“Deciding on the actual winner, wasn’t an easy decision to make, mainly due to the fact that we’d been in the pub all day, and our vision was a bit blurry,” 34SP.com co-founder Stuart Melling said in a statement. “The next day though we tried again. It was still hard though given all the entries we received. In the end we feel that the best pub mashups won.”
