Ok so its that time agian. blog time!

This weeks lecture was on API’s and Mashups, agian i never know what these things are until the end of the lecture.  But what i can gather from the lecture is; an API is a Application Program Interface.  It allows a user to source data from somewhere.  For example the URL in a www.*****.com

This data in turn can be used to create something new.

This is where a mashup comes into play.  A mashup is the process of useing the data that has been sourced to create a new way of doing something.

For example, if we were to use the API from the website twitter we could pull any kind of information we liked.  We could find every post with the phrase, i like to…

This could then be used to make something else:

We feel fine

Websites like this have already been created, i have listed some below for you to take a look at.

Helveti-Tweet

Portwiture

Boarding

Last FM Love Twitter