MashUps

The internet is radically changing, people are constantly thinking of new and innovative ideas that revolutionize how users interact with the web. Mashups are a great example, a user is able to combine data or functionality from two or more sources to create a single integrated application, thus creating a service that was not originally provided be either source. Society has realized that it's better to provide tools for users to work with then a fully featured framework for presenting information. Likewise, open source development are following the same trend. Although Microsoft owns the monopoly allot of people are now beginning to adopt Linux. Reason being is that Linux encourages users to have control over every aspect of their OS and even provide open source development packages for creation of home brewed applications. Similar to how web services provide API's to interface with their content. It follows:

• simplicity = limitations

• complexity = freedom

you choose....

References

http://www.flickr.com/photos/qthomasbower/3470650293/sizes/t/ flickr image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=mashup&btnG=Search&meta=