What Powers Web2.0 Mashups

What Powers Web2.0 Mashups

XML 2006, Wednesday, 1:30pm

Presenter: Dan Theurer, Technical Evangelist, Yahoo! Inc. (http://theurer.cc)

Why Web Services?

• http://blogginginmotion.com (contest winner at Yahoo's Hackday '06)
  
• Enable users to consume data in their own way
  

Companies Yahoo has acquired in the past year:

• flickr
• upcoming
• jumpcut
• del.icio.us

What is REST(ful)?

A stateless client/server protocol:each HTTP message contains all the information necessary to understand the request. As a result, neither hte client nor the server needs to remember any communication state between messages.

Real World Mashups

• Search application Rollyo (http://www.rollyo.com/)
• Flikr API
• Upcoming.org APIs (24 REST calls to work with) http://api.local.yahoo.com/eb/
• Lots of other examples of Mashups available at http://programmableweb.com/
  

Authentication Web Services

BBAuth Developer Credentials Sign-up http://developer.yahoo.com/

Developer Candy

Javascript User Interface Library

• A collection of JfavaScript libraries you can use in your Web development (complex UI controls, a cross-browser Ajax library, connection, event, drag-drop and more)
• Update frequently
• Docs available

Design Patterns on the Web

• Auto-complete
• breadcrumbs
• drag and drop
• tabs (module/navigation)
• rating an object
• pagination (objects/pages)
• writing a review

Application Gallery

http://developer.yahoo.com

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