Product Description

Your easy-to-use guide to creating dynamic mashups 

A mashup is a hot new technology that combines content from multiple online sources into a single, integrated Web experience. To create mashups, you need to know a little about a lot of different technologies, and how to integrate them seamlessly. How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups is a step-by-step guide to creating mashups that provides full-code examples using Google Maps, eBay, Flickr, and Amazon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177412 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From the Back Cover

Want to supercharge your website with the latest searching, mapping, shopping, and imaging tools? Now you can build amazing mashups with help from this step-by-step guide. How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups shows you how to remix the best of Google, Amazon, Flickr, and eBay to create customized applications. You'll learn to use essential Web 2.0 technologies--including XML, JavaScript, XHTML, and REST--and seamlessly integrate them into your own innovative mashups.

• Build dynamic mashups using XML and JavaScript
• Use MySQL with PHP to retrieve data from databases
• Receive data via RSS and Atom
• Learn to use XMLHttpRequest, XML-RPC, REST, and JSON
• Structure your mashup pages using XHTML
• Incorporate Google searching and mapping technologies
• Integrate Amazon Web Services
• Include Flickr photos in your mashups
• Tap into eBay tools and map the locations of eBay sellers
• Successfully manage multiple technologies in your mashups

About the Author

Jesse Feiler is the author of numerous technology books about FileMaker, Mac OS X, PERL, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. He specializes in creating FileMaker applications for small business and non-profits. Jesse is a regular on Northeast Public Radio WAMC’s Roundtable program.