Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Remixing Information Without Programming

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Learning from Specific Mashups

      Pages 3-19

   3. Uncovering the Mashup Potential of Web Sites

      Pages 21-60

   4. Understanding Tagging and Folksonomies

      Pages 61-75

   5. Working with Feeds, RSS, and Atom

      Pages 77-104

   6. Integrating with Blogs

      Pages 105-118

3. Remixing a Single Web Application Using Its API

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Learning Web Services APIs Through Flickr

      Pages 121-170

   3. Exploring Other Web APIs

      Pages 171-204

   4. Learning Ajax/JavaScript Widgets and Their APIs

      Pages 205-223

4. Making Mashups

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Moving from APIs and Remixable Elements to Mashups

      Pages 227-242

   3. Creating Mashups of Several Services

      Pages 243-281

   4. Using Tools to Create Mashups

      Pages 283-311

   5. Making Your Web Site Mashable

      Pages 313-324

5. Exploring Other Mashup Topics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325

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   2. Remixing Online Maps and 3D Digital Globes

      Pages 327-393

   3. Exploring Social Bookmarking and Bibliographic Systems

      Pages 395-416

   4. Accessing Online Calendars and Event Aggregators

      Pages 417-472

How many times have you seen a web site and said, “This would be exactly what I wanted— if only . . . ” If only you could combine the statistics here with data from your company’s earnings projections. If only you could take the addresses for those restaurants and plot them on one map. How often have you entered the date of a concert into your calendar with a single click instead of retyping? How often do you wish that you could make all the different parts of your digital world—your e-mail, your word processor documents, your photos, your search results, your maps, your presentations—work together more seamlessly? After all, it’s all digital and malleable information—shouldn’t it all just fit together? In fact, below the surface, all the data, web sites, and applications you use could fit together. This book teaches you how to forge those latent connections—to make the Web your own—by remixing information to create your own mashups. A mashup, in the words of the Wikipedia, is a web site or web application “that seamlessly combines content from more than one source 1 into an integrated experience. ” Learning how to draw content from the Web together into new integrated interfaces and applications, whether for yourself or for other others, is the central concern of this book.

• CSS
• HTML
• Java
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Web Services
• XML
• development
• language
• programming
• standards
• web applications

Raymond Yee is a data architect, consultant, and trainer. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Information�of the�University of California at�Berkeley, where he teaches the course "Mixing and Remixing Information". While earning a Ph.D. in biophysics, he taught computer science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11 students in the Academic Talent Development Program on the Berkeley campus. He is the primary architect of the Scholar's Box, software that enables users to gather digital content from multiple sources to create personal collections that can be shared with others. As a software architect and developer, he focuses on developing software to support learning, teaching, scholarship, and research. Raymond is an erstwhile tubaist, admirer of J. S. Bach, Presbyterian elder, aspiring essayist, son of industrious Chinese-Canadian restaurateurs, and devoted husband of the incomparable Laura.

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