Web Mashups. I'm up to my neck in them this week.

First off, I was honored and happy to have given a talk about mashups at the TTI Vanguard NextGens Conference in Washington, DC yesterday. It was great fun, and the audience was fantastic (more conferences should be like this one - every audience member had a live mike in front of them, invited to chime in and be challenging). The slides from my chat are here, should anyone care to see them (and/or decipher them).

Secondly, I've got a new mashup (actually a chained mashup involving 4 separate APIs). Using the Washington Post's RSS Feeds as a source, I'm generating a "Washington Post current events booklist" once an hour. There are three sections, one for the Post's Nation, World and Politics sections.

There's more on the about page, but the short description of the API pipeline used to create the lists is: WaPo RSS -> Yahoo Term Extractor -> Yahoo Web Search (restricted to amazon.com domain) -> Amazon API Book Lookup (restricted to Current Events).

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