Microsoft code name of the day: Springfield

Best guess on what it is: Microsoft’s Popfly mash-up tool

Meaning/context of the code name: Microsoft has gone back to relying on city names for a number of its most recently released products. Perhaps Springfield is just one more in that vein. Or perhaps “Springfield� is part of a new Simpsons family of codenames? You decide….

Back story: Popfly, an alpha version of which Microsoft rolled out in May, is designed to simplify the building of mash-ups. Its competitors include Yahoo Pipes and Google Mashup Editor, among other tools.

Additional info: Popfly was part of Microsoft’s earlier “Tuscany� initiative. Tuscany was the broader Microsoft codename for efforts around making programming more accessible to non-professional programmers — and using the Web and Web services to deliver at least part of that solution. As of today, Popfly is still in a controlled alpha test, though a public beta is expected any time now.

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