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
  1. What is it?
  2. Links to Learning
  3. Examples
  4. Assignment

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

Assignment

See Final Project for particulars FinalProjectsOcw5280

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