THING 6

Good grief (I'm reading an exhaustive bio of Chas Schulz)! I finally got here again. How is it that I am so easily confused and readily frustrated. Just keeping track of email addresses and passwords stymies me. Just for signing in to getting going has been a major snag today. Thanks mucho to compassionate co-workers for this bi-polar bozo. So, anyway, Thing 6. I was going to peruse other blogs to see what they said, but my first attempt was thwarted because I was somehow confused by a small component for which there is no negotiating in cyberspace. Explanations introduce other concepts that further challenge my ability to absorb. Mashups are not to be confused with embedded data. Mashups must access 3rd party data using an API and reuse the content in an unintended way. A hybrid. There is pure XML content and HTML presentation-oriented content. I understand that definition better with the Google maps and real estate ventures than I do with the Flickr mashups example. And within that sidetrack are Acamin, Digg, RadioClouds. Then there's Alyve, JackBe, Microsoft Popfly, Mozilla Ubiquity, Netvibes, Pageflakes, etcetera, etcetera, as the King of Siam would say. Anyway, I altered some photos I had in my Flickr account. Not great photos, not great results, but fait accompli nonetheless. I see using Flickr Mashups for altering photos for fun jigsaw puzzles, for name badges, for turning summer reading participants into "artistes" to reflect the "Express Yourself/Be Creative" themes.