The future of the Web?
January 2007
Mashups: The future of the Web?
Alan Taylor is living in the Wild West of Web development, and he has the scars to prove it. In his spare time, Taylor builds mashups __ Web applications that combine content from more than one source and have caught on as Web providers from Amazon.com to Microsoft make their data programmatically available to outsiders. But while he is breaking new ground on the Internet, he is also pushing legal and business boundaries. His Amazon Light application __ a stripped_down site for buying and renting goods through Amazon __ attracted two cease_and_desist orders a couple of years back, one from Amazon and another from Google. Taylor, who holds a day job as a senior Web developer at Boston.com, survived the legal threats without much trouble, but his experience points to the relative immaturity of mashups, which advocates believe represent the Web's cutting edge. Large software vendors catering to corporate software developers or independent software vendors have spent years establishing a suite of Web services standards and infrastructure software while advocating a modular design, called a service_oriented architecture. Mashups, by contrast, tend to focus on speed and simplicity, wiring together different Websites using quick and lightweight methods.
Source: http://news.com.com/At+Mashup+Camp%2C+geeks+plot+future+of+Web/2100_1012_3_6151162.html?
Mashups: The future of the Web?
Alan Taylor is living in the Wild West of Web development, and he has the scars to prove it. In his spare time, Taylor builds mashups __ Web applications that combine content from more than one source and have caught on as Web providers from Amazon.com to Microsoft make their data programmatically available to outsiders. But while he is breaking new ground on the Internet, he is also pushing legal and business boundaries. His Amazon Light application __ a stripped_down site for buying and renting goods through Amazon __ attracted two cease_and_desist orders a couple of years back, one from Amazon and another from Google. Taylor, who holds a day job as a senior Web developer at Boston.com, survived the legal threats without much trouble, but his experience points to the relative immaturity of mashups, which advocates believe represent the Web's cutting edge. Large software vendors catering to corporate software developers or independent software vendors have spent years establishing a suite of Web services standards and infrastructure software while advocating a modular design, called a service_oriented architecture. Mashups, by contrast, tend to focus on speed and simplicity, wiring together different Websites using quick and lightweight methods.
Source: http://news.com.com/At+Mashup+Camp%2C+geeks+plot+future+of+Web/2100_1012_3_6151162.html?
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