Look Ma – No Programming Cool Tips and Tricks Robin Hastings – robin.hastings@gmail.com Information Technology Manager Missouri River Regional Library

What are we going to do? Introduction Talk about Mashups Find data sources Learn about cool mashups "in the wild" Find out how to create our own mashups

Introduction

Talk about Mashups

Find data sources

Learn about cool mashups "in the wild"

Find out how to create our own mashups

Mashups! Comes from musical background – mashing up bits of different songs to make a new song

Requires an API (Application Programming Interface), RSS feed or other data sources

Requires an API

(Application Programming Interface),

RSS feed or

other data sources

Sometimes requires a “Key” – permission to use their data

Sometimes requires a “Key” – permission to use their data

Data massaging may be necessary...

Data massaging may be necessary...

Murder Map of London

Murder Map of London

Types? Presentation Layer Start pages (Netvibes) Data Mashup Combine data sources to present unified view (housingmaps.com) Process Mashup Customize business processes, invoke business logic across multiple applications (no examples – yet…)

Presentation Layer

Start pages (Netvibes)

Data Mashup

Combine data sources to present unified view (housingmaps.com)

Process Mashup

Customize business processes, invoke business logic across multiple applications (no examples – yet…)

Data? Policy Map 4,000 points of data about any location in US Yahoo! Geo-Locator http:// developer.yahoo.com /geo/ Strikeiron (data as a service) $$ http:// www.strikeiron.com/strikeironservices.aspx

Policy Map

4,000 points of data about any location in US

Yahoo! Geo-Locator

http:// developer.yahoo.com /geo/

Strikeiron (data as a service) $$

http:// www.strikeiron.com/strikeironservices.aspx

What mashups are out there now? Google Maps - millions Amazon - thousands Any website with an API - del.icio.us, twitter, Amazon, Google, etc. Any RSS feed!

Google Maps - millions

Amazon - thousands

Any website with an API - del.icio.us, twitter, Amazon, Google, etc.

Any RSS feed!

Programmable Web http:// www.programmableweb.com/mashuplist http:// www.gasbuddy.com Book Search – search multiple booksearch sites at once WebMashup.com http:// www.webmashup.com / Doggdot.us – Digg + Slashdot + del.icio.us Where do you find mashups?

Programmable Web

http:// www.programmableweb.com/mashuplist

http:// www.gasbuddy.com

Book Search – search multiple booksearch sites at once

WebMashup.com

http:// www.webmashup.com /

Doggdot.us – Digg + Slashdot + del.icio.us

Library Mashups? http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/01/04/ill_mashup.html ILL statistics, dumped into the Community Walk site, create a map of where the ILL books are coming from.

http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/01/04/ill_mashup.html

ILL statistics, dumped into the Community Walk site, create a map of where the ILL books are coming from.

Bookmobile Routes http:// www.mrrl.org/services/bookmo/index.asp Map data ( geocoded ) and Google Maps combine to make a visual map of our Bookmobile’s routes.

Bookmobile Routes

http:// www.mrrl.org/services/bookmo/index.asp

Map data ( geocoded ) and Google Maps combine to make a visual map of our Bookmobile’s routes.

What is involved?

How do I make my own?

Popfly mashup creator, requires login

Popfly

mashup creator, requires login

Popfly Interface

Yahoo! Pipes http:// www.jumpcut.com/fullscreen?id =C086AA92568811DCAB02000423CF381C&type=movie http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ko6COtf93BGFpaLjyp1_DQ

Yahoo! Pipes

http:// www.jumpcut.com/fullscreen?id =C086AA92568811DCAB02000423CF381C&type=movie

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ko6COtf93BGFpaLjyp1_DQ

Yahoo! Pipes Interface

Ultimate Pipes Creation List Read/Write Web Social Submission & Aggregation Pipes Pricing Alert Pipes Media Pipes Check comments for more suggestions

Read/Write Web

Social Submission & Aggregation Pipes

Pricing Alert Pipes

Media Pipes

Check comments for more suggestions

Google Maps http:// maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer =68480

Google Maps

http:// maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer =68480

Google Maps Interface

Mash Maker – Intel Desktop client Less API, more customized data grabbing BETA

Mash Maker – Intel

Desktop client

Less API, more customized data grabbing

BETA

Upcoming… Semantic Web = web as database Freebase Microformats Anything can be data source for mashups – if semantically marked up in XHTML or XML

Semantic Web = web as database

Freebase

Microformats

Anything can be data source for mashups – if semantically marked up in XHTML or XML

Start Pages

Start Pages

PageFlakes

PageFlakes

Netvibes

Netvibes

Questions?