Introduction to Mashups
Apress eBooks · 2008
Mashups are inspiring a new generation of technology enthusiasts and programmers. Mashups enable experienced, web savvy programmers to integrate with the giants of the Web 2.0 space. As the name implies, mashups mix and “mash” the programming interfaces from different companies’ products and services to create new products and services. Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, and Microsoft have published application programming interfaces (APIs) based on web standards that allow you to utilize their complicated functionality without being a programming expert. Dozens more companies, big and small, have followed in the same way, creating a mashup explosion of API mixing and matching. New, sometimes strange, mashup creations pop up all the time. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.