What it Means to be a Mashup 57
An anonymous reader writes "IBM DevWorks has provided us with an introductory article that helps define what it means to be a mashup. In addition to just defining what a mashup really is the author also delves into what they do for the community at large and where they may take us in the near future. From the article: '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.'"
Mish Mash (Score:5, Insightful)
I didn't manage to learn any more from this article that the Slashdot summary didn't provide.
Although there are sections describing what each tehnology is, and how it would be used, the summaries are vague, and lack any real content. I have written similar non-technical summaries for executive types, and it looked vaguely similar to this.
Reading the README of any AJAX application will tell you 80% of what the IBM article goes into.
The only information I can as being useful is the resource list cited at the end of the article.
Mashup 2.0 (Score:4, Insightful)
Web 2.0! Bubble 2.0! Crash 2.0! Recession 2.0!
Enough with the 2.0 already.
-1, Troll (Score:4, Insightful)
what kind of nonsense is this?!?!?! (Score:2, Insightful)
mashup (mash up) V. 1. to get wrecked on drugs of some description. 2. to have violence visited on one's person.
usage: "we were right in the middle of one hell of a mashup and i fell and broke my arm."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ma
Re:Wow (Score:3, Insightful)
What a clustermashup (Score:3, Insightful)