Web Design & Development Guide
Mashup
A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience. The etymology of this term possibly derives from its similar use in pop music.
Overview
Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API, although some in the community believe that only cases where private interfaces are not used count as mashups. Other methods of sourcing content for mashups include Web feeds (e.g. RSS or Atom), web services and Screen scraping. Many people are experimenting with mashups using Microsoft, Google, eBay, Amazon, Flickr, and Yahoo APIs, which has led to the creation of Mashup Editors.
Quotes
? a lot of talk about
Web 2.0,
web mashups,
Ajax etc., which in my mind are all facets of the same phenomenon: that
information and presentation are being separated in ways that allow for
novel forms of reuse.?
? The mash-up part of this
equation, is the offspring of an environment where application developers
see it in their own selfish interest to facilitate the creation of
integrated, yet highly derivative application hybrids by third parties,
something they do by providing rich public APIs to their user base.?
External links
Sites about mashups
- MashupAwards Mashup contest site with daily and monthly awards
- ProgrammableWeb John Musser's list of mashups, APIs, and a blog
- Webmashup.com Open Directory and Blog for Mashups & Web 2.0 APIs
- The Tech Beat: Mash-ups Blog entries on mashups from Business Week
- Mashup-news.com News on mashups ranked by bloggers
- PodcasterWhosWho.com News on mashups ranked by podcasters
- iMacros for Firefox is a browser based tool to create local in-browser mashups.
- OpenKapow.com is a developer community where you can find help with your mashups and see what others are making.
- Dapper is a web based tool to allow anyone create web feeds from any site to use in their mashups.
- JackBe has a Mashup Server as part of its Presto Edge software product.
Articles about mashups
- How to create a mashup
- The latest cost-cutting business technology Wall Street Journal article. Worthen, Ben. "'Mashups' Sew Data Together: Software Tools Can Cut Costs, Time for Linking Information Sources," Tuesday, July 31, 2007; B4.
- The state of mashup building technologies, Web 2.0 and its readiness to propel into Enterprise 2.0 Review of mashup development tools at Naked Open Source, a blog by Renat Khasanshyn, the founder of Apatar.
- Mix, Match, and Mutate (BusinessWeek article)
- Legal Issues regarding mashups
- Ajax Powered Google Maps Tutorial - a tutorial for building a Google Maps mashup for those with modest web programming skills.
Videos about mashups
Podcasts about mashups
- Audio clip about mashups
Samples of mashups
- A sample of a Google Maps Mashup Game You get a picture of a place somewhere on Earth and have to find this place. New riddles can be created and sent to friends.
- A sample of a Google Maps Mashup Lets you perform Package Tracking, check Weather, track Earthquakes, view Traffic, find Movies, Banks, and Radio Stations on a Google Map
- get free junk mainly a Gumtree mashup with a recycling angle
- A sample of Wikipedia, Google, Wordtraker and Yahoo! mashup
- A sample of Google Maps mashup with a photos/videos sharing webservice
- A sample of News Mashup with an algorithm of Artifical Intelligence that learns from interaction
- A sample of a food blog and google mashup
- A Sample of Google Maps with street side imagery
- A sample of a Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm and Amazon mashup
- A sample of an eBay and Google Maps mashup Search eBay in America, Canada, UK or Australia and see your results laid out on a Google Map.
- IphoneManiacs.com - A sample of a Flickr, YouTube, Revver and Google News mashup It aggregates data from different sources to bring you the latest news, videos, photos and discussions about the new Apple Iphone
