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When asked recently on radio-four about the English Cricket Board's accepting money from Allen Stanford, Frank Cottrell Boyce came back with an interesting perspective:

The UK Government's Power of Information Task Force have created a public competition to produce mashups of government and public data. The site Show us a better way offers a £20,000 prize fund to further develop the winning entry.

Flickr is a popular photography site. Its webservice interface has lead to a number of mashups using its content:

• Tag Galaxy produces a galaxy of the nearest tags to the tag entered.
• Retrievr search flickr by sketching.
• Clockr displays a clock of flickr digits.
• Fastr a fickr guessing game.