Mashing is the compounding (“mashing”) of
two or more pieces of complementing web functionalities to create a powerful
web application. This is usually achieved through the use of Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs), where API’s are the defined, and generally
published, interface of a software or hardware that can be addressed and used
by another software. According to Webopidia – “Web
sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on
the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider.
The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more
songs.”
According to WIKIPEDIA – “The main
characteristics of the mashup are combination, visualization, and aggregation.
It is important to make existing data more useful, moreover for personal and
professional use. To be able to permanently access the data of other services,
mashups are generally client applications or hosted online.”
I have used Yahoo Pipe to create a pipe to showcase latest
posts from my blogs ( one is cooking blog (www.vegetariansworld.blogspot.se)
and the other is my web designing blog (www.mywebdesigningworld.blogspot.se
) ), along with latest news info from my favorite news website Telegraph ( www.telegraph.co.uk ). And I also want to
experiment with yahoo local search. I have tried to search one near my home
town Karlskrona, but that location search is not available.
Check my Yahoo Pipe
The wire frame behind the pipe is as show in the picture:
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