Mashups and API's What Are They

The internet is an unfathomable resource with a wealth of information at your finger tips. Now a new technology is emerging. It is call Mashups. A mashup is a web application that combines information from various web sources and combine them into one. This is achieved by the use of API's (Application Programming Interface).

In fact you you can create your own mashups.

As an example here is a mashup using New York Times API and Amazon.com API. There is a list of books on Amazon.com and reviews of those books from the New York Times combined together into a website.

Here is an extensive list of API's you can play with.

Yahoo Pipes is a mashup tool where you can gather information from RSS feeds and combine them with other feeds creating one RSS feed. You can also select what articles you want to see in your pipe by using a filter using a word or tag.

To research Mashups and API's go to http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups