Week 8 -Mashups and API

It is really new terminology and technology for me, even though I didn't realize that tourist sites and hotel reservation sites that I am using are very frequentlly used mashups. It took me a while to understand how mashup brings two or more Web application together to create new information services. the all the combination of several programs to bring up the third.Weather bonk uses API to combine several web applications such as Google map, Microsoft virtual earth, Yahoo Geocoding, Yahoo map and weatherbugs etc. They are so visual that they can attract and convince patrons powerfully.
In shifted librarin blog, it said that US senate voted to slap the pentagon's Total Information Awareness(TIA)program which Bush administration thinkg is useful for national security to protect the privace of Americal citizens. The Annoyed Librarian
said that privacy is liberal value based on liberal vaues of individual autonomy and tolerane. He/she thinks that privacy allows people to think freely withough interferece politicaly. He thinks that in privacy the personal and the political should not be intertwined. He/she criticize the ALA only concerns about political issues disregarding professional and privacy issues.
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