Meshing Information and Mashing Functionality
Linked Data and Mashups rely on open standards to integrate information and furnish collaborative features, but differ on their uses and the intricacies of combining disparate data and features to build new functionality from cloud resources. Both provide emerging standards to provide content and shared applications for readers/users from existing Web resources coupled with proprietary [...]
November 24, 2009
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Michael Hiatt · 
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Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web, single-source authoring · Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web
About Mashups and Linked Data
In the past few postings, I presented some of the problems in managing information for corporate products and services using legacy authoring and publishing processes combined with new Web 2.0 communication practices. Take a look at these postings to get a clear view of where I’m coming from: Shotgun Communication: Haphazard information distribution from disparate [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web · Posted in: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web
Highly pliable software platforms with mashups, widgets, SaaS, etc.
Dion Hinchcliffe reports: We’re already witnessing this [highly pliable software platforms] with the rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing, enterprise mashups, collaborative intranets that can be maintained almost entirely by workers (Enterprise 2.0), and the growing use of smaller, more granular microapplications such as widgets, gadgets, and visual feeds to combine and connect things together [...]
September 3, 2009
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Tags: Cloud Computing, collaboration, collaborative, federated, gadgets, Mashups, platforms, pliable, SaaS, Web services, widgets · Posted in: Cloud Computing, Mashups
Mashups defined
Mashups: According to Wikipedia: In web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data sources, Google Maps, Mashups, open APIs, web apps, Web services · Posted in: Mashups
Mashups: second generation Web applications
Duane Merrill reports: Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0.
September 2, 2009
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Tags: external data, Mashups, second generation, services, Web 2.0, web apps · Posted in: Mashups