HCL 2.0 » Mashups http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20 \"The Web is unlocked--resistance is futile.\" Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Mashups http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20/2007/05/04/mashups/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20/2007/05/04/mashups/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 16:41:36 +0000 hcl20 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20/2007/05/04/mashups/ NOTES

  • A mashup mixes content from independent sources to create something new
  • frappr – http://www.frappr.com/ – is an example , incorporates (mashes up) Yahoo, Amazon, Google Maps, Technorati, EVDB (an events planner)
  • Mashup is do-it-yourself programming
  • A user can read, write, and program with open data and an open set of services
  • No approval is needed
  • Google Gadgets makes it easy to add a variety of dynamic elements to any web page http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/

Technical issues raised by mashups:

  • Sustainability
  • Intellectual property issues
  • Provenance
  • Persistent APIs

QUESTION

On what types of resources might mashups be effective/useful?

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