You will create some mashups step by step, remembering
what you have seen as an end user of these tools.
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Remixing a Single
Web Application
Using Its API
In Part I, we looked at how to recombine information without resorting to formal programming
techniques. There is a lot that can be done by carefully examining various web
applications from the perspective of an end user looking for integrative opportunities. We
studied, for instance, how you can recombine information through manipulating URLs,
introducing tags, and connecting feeds from one application to another.
In the rest of the book, we??™ll take on the programmer??™s perspective. In the first two chapters
in this part, for example, we turn to learning about how to use web services, starting
from the concrete example of Flickr (Chapter 6) and then contrasting and comparing Flickr
to other examples (Chapter 7). In Chapter 8, we turn to Ajax-based and JavaScript-based
widgets, building upon what we learn in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.
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Learning Web Services APIs
Through Flickr
Flickr is an excellent playground for learning XML web services. Among other reasons, Flickr
offers clear documentation, an instructive API Explorer that lets you try the API through a browser,
and lots of prior art to study in terms of remixes and mashups. Hundreds of third-party apps
are using the Flickr API.
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