Mashups

Very interesting video to begin this lesson. I've been using the word mashup fairly loosely, and not quite correctly perhaps. Some of the things I've been calling a mashup were actually done "manually", eg the FOCOL assistant and I built a Google Map locating all of the members of Fox Cities Online and we added a link to the map to a Wiki we've been experimenting with on another site. Perhaps a more proper mashup if we take the time to actually display the map on the FOCOL homepage.

I did go to the Map Builder site and add a pointer for the Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve. At first for some reason the site wanted to put Bubolz in the middle of Nebraska somewhere despite the fact that I think I gave it the correct address. But evenually it settled down in approximately the correct location.

I have more work to do before I will feel like I really understand mashups. But this exercise has helped some and at least broadened my perception of the topic and made me realize that I don't know as much about them as I thought I did.