Mashup Mayhem RSS Edition Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

http://ouseful.info

“ ouseful slash”

“ ouseful slash” http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/

“ ouseful slash” http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/ ~/

What is a mashup? Where are they used? How can I make one?

A mashup is a combination of: data from two or more independent sources data and an 'unanticipated' way of presenting it <140 chars...

An unanticipated way of presenting of data

http://flickr.com/photos/75468125@N00/1395277674/

If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...

http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/96085777/ “ Simple logic circuits used to connect together more complex circuits which are not perfectly compatible.”

http://flickr.com/photos/eob/55434639

Web2.0 Enterprise Education

P ersonal L earning E nvironment

http://tinyurl.com/62v83f

Beware the category mistake

Gilbert Ryle

Making the content yours

http://flickr.com/photos/banlon1964/329984504

http://flickr.com/photos/chromewaves/2171216654/

So let's mash it up... ...mash it up

http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/96085777/ Glue Logic

Search glue: http://live.com just add &format=rss

Presentation glue: http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/opmldashboard/

Glue Logic http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/ xmltools/ dwCommentFeedsOPML.php aka http://tinyurl.com/4vq4nt

Beauty + Power = a well-crafted URL

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/ category/ game-design/ feed tag/ animation/ feed

Uncourse blog emergent link structure

Where's the feed?

Where's the feed?

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Pipework

- search and filtering - maps - page scraping and APIs - visualisation

http://pipes.yahoo.com

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