Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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.

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