Remixing Information Without Programming.- Learning from Specific Mashups.- Uncovering the Mashup Potential of Web Sites.- Understanding Tagging and Folksonomies.- Working with Feeds, RSS, and Atom.- Integrating with Blogs.- Remixing a Single Web Application Using Its API.- Learning Web Services APIs Through Flickr.- Exploring Other Web APIs.- Learning Ajax/JavaScript Widgets and Their APIs.- Making Mashups.- Moving from APIs and Remixable Elements to Mashups.- Creating Mashups of Several Services.- Using Tools to Create Mashups.- Making Your Web Site Mashable.- Exploring Other Mashup Topics.- Remixing Online Maps and 3D Digital Globes.- Exploring Social Bookmarking and Bibliographic Systems.- Accessing Online Calendars and Event Aggregators.- Using Online Storage Services.- Mashing Up Desktop and Web-Based Office Suites.- Using Microformats and RDFa As Embeddable Data Formats.- Integrating Search.

Mashups are hugely popular right now, a very important topic within the general area of Web 2.0, involving technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, APIs, libraries, and server-side languages (such as PHP and ASP.NET.) This book aims to be the definitive tome on Mashup development, to stand in the middle of all the other, more API specific books coming out on Google Maps, Flickr, etc. The book shows how to create real world Mashups using all the most poplar APIs, such as Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon Web Services, and delicious, and includes examples in multiple different server-side languages, such as PHP, Java, and .NET.

Raymond Yee is a data architect, consultant, and trainer. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Information¿of the¿University of California at¿Berkeley, where he teaches the course "Mixing and Remixing Information". While earning a Ph.D. in biophysics, he taught computer science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11 students in the Academic Talent Development Program on the Berkeley campus. He is the primary architect of the Scholar's Box, software that enables users to gather digital content from multiple sources to create personal collections that can be shared with others. As a software architect and developer, he focuses on developing software to support learning, teaching, scholarship, and research. Raymond is an erstwhile tubaist, admirer of J. S. Bach, Presbyterian elder, aspiring essayist, son of industrious Chinese-Canadian restaurateurs, and devoted husband of the incomparable Laura.