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Week 13: Hacks and Mashups
The following will provide tutorials, definitions and resources for
Hacks, Mash-ups and other stuff. You are not required to look at all of
the material, but search it until you feel that you have a good
understanding of what is required for you to fulfill the
assignment.
| Table of contents |
What is it?
A mashup is a new kind of genre within interactive Web applications
that combines existing data from different data sources (such as
Amazon, Google, and eBay)in very innovative ways to create a new
service.
- An article
(http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-mashups.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16MashupChallenges) - Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29) - Some
faq’s (http://www.programmableweb.com/faq) - A
list of mashups
(http://www.programmableweb.com/popular/recent)
Links to Learning
A
tutorial (http://www.programmableweb.com/howto)This
tutorial is for people who know how to code. However, by combining some
of the tools from this course, you too can create a mashup without
coding.
Examples
- What a few video clips and one song can do.
(http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=3873acd4c904f2b2d8e094d02e9a5f7e.607491&fr=yvmtf) - Measure your running distance using Flash and Yahoo
Maps (http://runningmap.com) - Price comparison while shopping online
(http://kulist.com) - A walk through Jon Udell’s hometown
(http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/gmap2_flash.html) - Student Paul Jones
(http://www.sawfishmango.com/screencasts/mashup_paper.html) - Students TJ
Hilton and Jay McEntire
(http://breeze.usu.edu/CALFNES/) - Google Games
(http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-08-13-n15.html)
Assignment
See Final Project for particulars FinalProjectsOcw5280
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