How many times have you seen a web site and said, âThis would be exactly what I wantedâ if only . . . â If only you could combine the statistics here with data from your companyâs earnings projections. If only you could take the addresses for those restaurants and plot them on one map. How often have you entered the date of a concert into your calendar with a single click instead of retyping? How often do you wish that you could make all the different parts of your digital worldâyour e-mail, your word processor documents, your photos, your search results, your maps, your presentationsâwork together more seamlessly? After all, itâs all digital and malleable informationâshouldnât it all just fit together? In fact, below the surface, all the data, web sites, and applications you use could fit together. This book teaches you how to forge those latent connectionsâto make the Web your ownâby remixing information to create your own mashups. A mashup, in the words of the Wikipedia, is a web site or web application âthat seamlessly combines content from more than one source 1 into an integrated experience. â Learning how to draw content from the Web together into new integrated interfaces and applications, whether for yourself or for other others, is the central concern of this book.
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