What is a mashup and why would i want one
Darlene Fichter
The origin of the word mashup comes from the music industry where one track is “mashed” “up” with another
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IBM Executive Declares Web 2.0 Technology to Drive New Business Applications”
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19821.wss
There is a rise of citizen mapping projects
fun v. business
view of mashups as todays playground
some of the initial projects might look frivilous.
but in the future –see trend of blogging
DEFINITION
website or web pplication that takes content from one or more sources ro create a new service
most common tools
api or rss feed
mashup ecosystem
http://web2.wsj2.com/the_web_20_mashup_ecosystem_ramps_up.htm
things that need to exist
-open data (usage statements, copyright info)
-open services. programmatic way to draw down access
-small pieces loosley joined
culture of trust-nobody really knows what you are doing with the data
think of it as a lego brick that you can use to build other things
*housingmaps site is example of early mashup
putting info in a useful context
data store from zip code data
photos links and news in one place–daily mashups
newsmap uses google news to crunch data and analyze it
different colors represent news stories
book carousel is a pretty mashup-ajax–moves across book covers to show top 25 books in libraries
book covers coming from syndetics
full disclosure to say not responsible for info data comning from a diff source
-placeopedia connecting wikipedia articles with map data
mashup the things you want in ine place. =life aggregator tools
-flickr, blogs, del.icio.us,digg,43things etc..
blogging librarian blogger map– www.frappr.com/blogginglibrarians
liveplasma=mining amazon and searching for relationships between things
*these could all link back to library
bashr=putting flickr together with wikipedia articles and links from del.icio.us
weather bon=weather info and access from webcams and info from weather services
interspersing info into websites==bookburro
facts:1105 mashups (programmableweb)
types- mostly mapping
mashup matrix lets you see all the diff sites with apoi or data and see how they have been combines.
Typology of the mashup
- presentation mashups (superficial)
- client-side data mashup (application dowloaded and does some work)
Where to start
- point click paster and publish
- “cloning” simple source code edits
- get an idea
- get a developer token (so they know who is making queries)
- read the fine print
- create your first mashup
