If only you could take the addresses for those restaurants and plot them on one
map. How often have you entered the date of a concert into your calendar with a single click
instead of retyping? How often do you wish that you could make all the different parts of your
digital world??”your e-mail, your word processor documents, your photos, your search results,
your maps, your presentations??”work together more seamlessly? After all, it??™s all digital and
malleable information??”shouldn??™t it all just fit together?
In fact, below the surface, all the data, web sites, and applications you use could fit together.
This book teaches you how to forge those latent connections??”to make the Web your own??”by
remixing information to create your own mashups. A mashup, in the words of the Wikipedia, is
a web site or web application ???that seamlessly combines content from more than one source
into an integrated experience.???1 Learning how to draw content from the Web together into new
integrated interfaces and applications, whether for yourself or for other others, is the central
concern of this book.
Let??™s look at a few examples to see how people are remixing data and services to make
something new and useful:
??? Housingmaps.com brings together Google Maps and the housing and rental listings
from Craigslist.com. Note that it was invented by neither Google nor Craigslist but by
an individual programmer, Paul Radamacher.
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