Mashups or HTML
William Backus
WEB/404
University of Phoenix
Instructor: Jerry D'Antonio
7 July 2008
Mashups or HTML
Introduction
This paper will dive into one of the hottest topics of Web 2.0, Mashups. Mashups are a way of designing web applications that will combine the functionality from multiple web sites to produce a single web service. Some examples seen in common use today are Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. This type of service is seen, for example, when they look at an apartment online, make a choice, and the map from Google pops up showing the area or directions to their choose. The term Mashups came from the music industry, used to describe a new song that is made up of remixed songs.
There has been a recent debate as to if Mashups will replace HTML and HTML web pages totally. Along with the debate, advantages and disadvantages to the use of Mashups which will be looked at and evaluated.
Mashups or HTML
Any site that invites Mashups uses an open API (application programming interface). Some familiar sites that use this technology are Google, eBay, and MapQuest. However, even in the absence of open API a web developer can use other means to make Mashups work (Keston, 2008). By having so many options available developers have found that using this technology is an easy replacement for the traditional HTML programming that supersedes Mashups by many years. Many articles written in the information technology and programming fields, show Mashups as being on the rise. The three broad types of Mashups are Presentation, Data, and Logic. It has been predicted that by 2013 enterprise Mashups will reach $700 million, this mostly by allowing vendors to provide...