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[DotJs2025] Modern Day Mashups: How AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web
Nostalgia’s glow recalls Web 2.0’s mashup mania—APIs alchemized into novelties, Google Maps wedding Craigslist for HousingMaps’ geospatial grace. Angie Jones, Block’s global VP of developer relations and 27-patent savant, resurrected this renaissance at dotJS 2025, heralding AI agents as programmable web’s phoenix via MCP (Model Context Protocol). An IBM Master Inventor turned educator, Angie’s odyssey—from virtual worlds to Azure’s principal—now orchestrates Goose, Block’s open-source agent, mashing MCPs for emergent enchantments.
Angie’s arc: 2000s’ closed gardens yielded to API avalanches—crime overlays, restaurant radars—yet silos stifled. AI’s advent: agents as conductors, LLMs querying MCPs—modular connectors to calendars, codebases, clouds. Goose’s genesis: MCP client, extensible via SDKs, wielding refs like filesystem fetches or GitHub grapples. Demos dazzled: Slack summons, Drive dossiers, all agent-autonomous—prompts birthing behaviors, mashups manifesting sans scaffolding.
MCP’s mosaic: directories like Glama AI’s report cards (security scores, license litmus), PostMCP’s popularity pulses, Block’s nascent registry—metadata-rich, versioned vaults. 2025’s swell: thousands tally, community curating—creators crafting custom conduits, from Figma flows to Figma fusions. Angie’s axiom: revive 2000s’ whimsy, amplified—productivity’s polish, creativity’s canvas—democratized by open forges.
This resurgence: agents as artisans, web as workshop—mash to manifest, share to spark.
Mashup’s Metamorphosis
Angie animated epochs: HousingMaps’ heuristic hacks to MCP’s modular might—agents querying conduits, emergent apps from elemental exchanges. Goose’s grace: SDK-spawned servers, refs routing realms—Slack’s summons, Drive’s deluge.
MCP’s Marketplace and Momentum
Directories discern: Glama’s grades, PostMCP’s pulses—Block’s beacon unifying. Thousands thrive, tinkerers tailoring—Figma to finance, fun’s frontier.