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By: li mika

li mika — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:06:08 +0000

Like to create or see Yahoo! Konfabulator kinda widgets on mobile?

See mobile widgets implementation done by UK based Tricastmedia… http://www.tricastmedia.com/blog/?p=157

By: TomSoft

TomSoft — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:59:39 +0000

Davdi, thanks for the link It’s an interesting first step, but just a first step. End user mashup based on purely extraction of data from web pages will be quite limited first, and non optimized….
I envisage tools provided by some third party that will allows end users to do this mashup directly, with much more powerful results than direct extraction from web pages…

By: David Huynh

David Huynh — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:16:30 +0000

Tom, there is some existing research on end-user mashups since early 2005:

http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/

The idea is that as long as people still think of data-centric mashup services delivered from web servers, users will still experience limitations on what can be mashed up. Mashup capabilities need to be moved over to the client side where each individual user chooses the data sources that suit his/her need at each particular moment.

For a glimpse of how automatic scraping can be made available to end-users, see this video: http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/research/papers/uist2006-augmenting-web-sites.mov

By: TomSoft

TomSoft — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:46:22 +0000

Hello Owen,

Thanks for the feedback…Hope to see in the near future some examples of newly created services using mashery…

By: Praxis

Praxis — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:05:05 +0000

Mashups and Widgets Primer…

When I’ve had to explain mashups and widgets to friends and family who are not involved in our own little ecosystem, I’ve often wished for a simple overview of the differences between the two (and the definitions of each). Thomas…

By: Oren Michels

Oren Michels — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:54:00 +0000

Thanks for mentioning Mashery, Tom. You’ve provided a great overview of the “what is an API”, “what is a widget”, and “what is a mashup” debate that is reminiscent of the still-unresolved “what is a blog” debate that has been a topic at conferences for the past several years. I think your diagrams will be of great assistance to me as I try to explain mashups and widgets to friends.

Fundamentally, we at Mashery believe that people who offer web services of various different types (define ‘em as you like) will need various enabling technologies and services that other such companies will need, and that are more efficiently delivered as a service across multiple providers than they would be if developed separately by each web service provider. This will benefit both web service/API providers and the developers who build applications using the services, APIs or widgets.

- Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery