Scuttlebutt

I’ve been thinking about building a web tool that lets you mash-up images, either from your hard drive (after you upload) or from a URL. For example, you could:

• draw directions to your house on a map
• put a flag where you sit on a company map
• draw a mustache on a teen pop star
• merge a pollution or school district map (or both) with a map showing your neighborhood
• apply fog, black & white, etc. effects to a photograph online

A simple javascript interface that lets you change transparency and placement of one image on another, as well as choose from a palette & draw on the image, is all you’d need.  You could then send the URL to the image to friends.  You wouldn’t need to provide any hosting yourself – this is for quick & dirty hacks that pretty much anyone should be able to do.

Once again, a call for a vote: Would You Give a Shit?