Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan
- Definitions
- web application that uses content from multiple sources to create a new source
- uses APIs or RSS
- term comes from pop music
- cool new breed of application on the web
- Not everyone likes the term
- IBM very interested in the concept for inside the enterprise
- today’s playground
- Example
- Frappr: People + Google Maps
- Mashup ecosystem
- open data
- open set of services
- small pieces loosely joined
- Implications
- fastest growing ecosystem
- don’t need anyone’s approval to provide a new API to the Internet operating systems
- DIY Programming
- 5 minute customization of applications
- no longer need a techno-elite to do it
- It’s Legos!
- Examples
- Zip-code lookup using google maps
- library route map for deliveries
- day’s popular photos, links and news
- newsmap
- reveals underlying patterns in the news
- Earthquake
- USGS & Google Maps
- Book Carousel
- ChicagoCrime.org
- Captioner
- Color Pickr
- Housing Maps
- PlaceOpedia
- NetVibes / SuprGlu
- Group maps for Online Communities
- Live Plasma
- Weather Bomb
- McMaster Library – 5000 aerial photos & google maps
- Pittsburg University Library
- Yahoo! Pipes
- Scopus and Web of Sciences
- publications by their faculty
- output one RSS feed
- Facts & Figures
- 1799 mashups
- +3/day
- Types of mashups pie chart
- Mashup Matrix
- Mashup typology
- presentation
- client-side data
- client-side software
- server-side software
- server-side data
- Where to start
- point, lick & publish
- Google My Maps
- APIs/Web Services
- get an idea
- get a developer token
- read the fine print about use
- Community Walk
- Learn from Others
- Western Springs History
- just do it
- lib-web-cats
- directory by Marshal Breeding
