In our class last week we were suppose to get with our groups and discuss what kind of project we wanted to do for our class project. And I think our came up with some good ideas such as Dan had the idea of a Mashup of having reservations for a sort of Lodge Resort. Using API's for location,direction,payment etc and it was a good idea but we came into a problem that we thought that we would be making up the website for the lodges we would use but soon found out that we would be using components from a already existing site or API. But we liked the idea of where we were headed.
So I wanted to research a little more about mashups and what they were, how they are made and ow they were used. So I did what most people do these days and I googled it, I found definitions of what a mashup was, types of mashups and also saw a comparison with mashups vs portals with differences between the two. I found one good site about how to start a mashup that came from Programmableweb.com. And it had a simple 5 step list of how you are suppose to:
1)Pick a subject
2)Decide where your data is coming from
3)Weigh your coding skills
4)Sign up for a API
5) Start coding
And it went into some detail of how each step would get you to start your own mashup. So this should be a interesting task and it seems like we will be using a little from each one of our past IS classes to complete this ultimate project.
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