Here's an article I wrote on how to quickly and easily create complex Google Maps Mapplets based on Yahoo Pipes KML feeds.

http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2007/07/fuel-price-mapplet-developing-mapplets.html

It's a step-by-step walk through of how I turned a mashup I wrote with the Google Mashup Editor into a Mapplet (and why), there's also some general mapplet development tips.

Any Mashup / Mapplet developers here on Blogoscoped? Are Mapplets the way of the future?

Reto,

I wrote allready on in in follow thread:

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/102110.html#id102110

Congrats again with being mentioned by Google Mashup Blog!

(In this forum there wasn't a lot of feedback on it...)

:-(

Thanks Art-One!

Actually, this is a brand new post. I turned the mashup from the earlier post into a Maps Mapplet (still using Pipes technology).

Seems like Mapplets are a better fit for this sort of 'overlay' type mashup, but there's not a lot of buzz about mapplets yet. I wonder why? Too complicated for average Maps users to add and use?