Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services [Paperback]

Mashups are hugely popular right now, a very important topic within the general area of Web 2.0, involving technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, APIs, libraries, and server-side languages (such as PHP and ASP.NET.) This book aims to be the definitive tome on Mashup development, to stand in the middle of all the other, more API specific books coming out on Google Maps, Flickr, etc. The book shows how to create real world Mashups using all the most poplar APIs, such as Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon Web Services, and delicious, and includes examples in multiple different server-side languages, such as PHP, Java, and .NET.

This book aims to be the definitive tome on Mashup development, to stand in the middle of all the other, more API specific books coming out on Google Maps, Flickr, etc. The book shows how to create real world Mashups using all the most poplar APIs.

How many times have you seen a web site and said, This would be exactly what I wanted if only . . .  If only you could combine the statistics here with data from your companys earnings projections. If only you could take the addresses for those restaurants and plot them on one map. How often have you entered the date of a concert into your calendar with a single click instead of retyping? How often do you wish that you could make all the different parts of your digital worldyour e-mail, your word processor documents, your photos, your search results, your maps, your presentationswork together more seamlessly? After all, its all digital and malleable informationshouldnt it all just fit together? In fact, below the surface, all the data, web sites, and applications you use could fit together. This book teaches you how to forge those latent connectionsto make the Web your ownby remixing information to create your own mashups. A mashup, in the words of the Wikipedia, is a web site or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source 1 lC-