Mashup Apps Community Dev

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It seems to me that every year another set of buzzwords emerge at conferences like these. Last year it was stuff like “folksonomy”, “tagging”, “delicious”, “flickr”. “Mashups”, however, hadn’t “hit” yet. This year is a different story. So, I’m not going to dwell too much on the definition of mashups, since previous sessions have already done that. Instead, I wanted to talk a little bit about what the mashup philosophy means to libraries, and what we should be thinking about in terms of reacting to the mashup trend and preparing for what’s possibly next.

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So, what’s the big deal and why is “mashup” such a buzzword now? Well, like I said, technology has allowed mashup developers to do some very interesting, powerful things and remixability has its own inherent values–chiefly among them is that the mashup represents a shift in the web’s balance of power. Regular people are seizing control of their online experience.
Mashup developers do not necessarily need to be programmers - A common mis-conception is that in order to produce a mash-up, you need to be a geeky code-guru. This is definately not that case. Mashers are regular people who have spent just a little bt of time figuring out some of the most basic elements of web 2.0 programming.
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