Mashup MayhemRSS Edition

Tony Hirst

Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

http://ouseful.info

“ouseful slash”

“ouseful slash”

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/

“ouseful slash”

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/

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What is a mashup?Where are they used?How can I make one?

A mashup is a combination of:

data from two or more independent sources

data and an 'unanticipated' way of presenting it

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An unanticipatedway of presenting of data

http://flickr.com/photos/75468125@N00/1395277674/

If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...

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“Simple logic circuits used to connect together more complex circuits

which are not perfectly compatible.”

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Beware the category mistake

Gilbert Ryle

Making the content yours

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So let's mash it up...

...mash it up

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Glue Logic

Search glue:

http://live.comjust add &format=rss

Presentation glue:

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/opmldashboard/

Glue Logic

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/xmltools/dwCommentFeedsOPML.php

aka http://tinyurl.com/4vq4nt

Beauty + Power = a well-crafted URL

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Uncourse blog emergent link structure

Where's the feed?

Where's the feed?

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Pipework

- search and filtering- maps- page scraping and APIs- visualisation

http://pipes.yahoo.com

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