Week Eight Mashups & API

My Mashups

Star Viewer is a YouTube / Google Sky Map constellation mashup. The videos on YouTube came from the Hubble and include info about the constellation. This is a very cool mashup.

Quick.as allows you to search the web as if the search bar were a command line. For example: “w Mashups” searches Wikipedia for the term “Mashups”. Two of the other commands I will use often are “gn” for Google News and “a” to search Amazon.

Rollyo

I had fun creating a Rollyo on Election08

I am sure I will use Gabe's Rollyo "librarianblogs" in the future to look for comments on technology and other library issues. Because some of the posting were a few years old I wasn't quite sure if the issues were still an issue. For example, the post on the Google Toolbar and privacy. Some of the other posts were opinions on philosophical issues related to privacy. Those were interesting but not essential--I have plenty of opinions of my own and I'm not sure how many people would care about them.

p.s Thanks to Shandra for her post on TouchGraph and her comment "If you missed it on the HubMed site, check out this cool tool for visually mapping web sites or books." This site is a keeper for sure.

I think the Blog will mainly be useful to me so I can go back and look for something I learned about in this class but might have forgotten.

Many thanks for this great class!