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? Links to Learning Examples 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

• 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

Citation: Wiley, D. (2006, December 13). Hacks and Mashups. Retrieved February 13, 2008, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/Instructional_Technology/new-media/hacks.htm.

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