I remember when the term Ajax was already about 8 months old or so, and I had no idea what it was, aside from the household cleaner. I asked someone on a forum, how Yahoo did this particular thing on their site, and someone answered: “it’s Ajax”, and then to my surprise found out that books were being written about it already.
Just found out that there is a term coined for certain web based apps, called “Mashups”. They’re basically a mixture of services - possibly Google maps mixed in with Amazon API - to accomplish a certain outcome, a certain type of result.
In this case, with Google maps and Amazon, you could combine the two to provide a way for users on their cell phone, let’s say, to find a third party seller’s location who is selling something you found.
OK, probably a bad example.
If you use an RSS reader, and you want to be notified about new mashups, use this feed link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/programmableweb/mashup
