Topic: Web

del.icio.us Mashups

Brett O'Connor

ISBN: 978-0-470-09776-2

Paperback

381 pages

January 2007

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Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: The Mashup-Friendly Web.

Chapter 1: Web 2.0 and del.icio.us.

Enter del.icio.us.

Organizing Your Bookmarks.

Using Bookmarklets.

Socializing with Other del.icio.us Users.

Exploring the del.icio.us Community.

Chapter 2: del.icio.us and the Mashup.

del.icio.us: A Mashup Pioneer.

RSS Feeds for (Almost) Every Page.

The Application Programming Interface (API).

Chapter 3: Going Deeper Inside the del.icio.us API.

del.icio.us as a Subsystem.

Protocols.

The del.icio.us API Methods.

Language-Specific API Libraries.

RSS versus API.

Chapter 4: Other Mashable Software.

Flickr.

Yahoo! Search.

Amazon Web Services.

eBay.

Google Search.

WordPress.

Firefox Extensions.

Part II: Get Ready to Mash.

Chapter 5: Mashup Tools.

Understanding Editors.

Setting Up a Web-Development Environment.

Installing phpMyAdmin.

Setting Up a Weblog.

Accounts and API Keys.

Chapter 6: More Mashup Technologies.

Web Development Technologies: HTML, XHTML, and CSS.

Data Storage and Transfer with PHP.

Other Methods and Software.

Chapter 7: del.icio.us Mashup Techniques.

A Deliciously Simple JSON Remix.

Using PHP and MySQL for Full-Bodied Flavor.

Taking It to the Desktop.

Part III: Mashups and Remixes.

Chapter 8: Mashing del.icio.us and WordPress.

Sharing Your Daily Discoveries.

Spreading Your Ideas.

Tracking Your Popularity.

Combining Relevant Bookmarks.

Using the Del.icio.us Play Tagger for Your MP3 Links.

Chapter 9: Remixing del.icio.us with Greasemonkey.

Greasemonkey Explained.

Skinning del.icio.us.

Customizing the del.icio.us User Interface.

Fetching Remote Data.

Chapter 10: Remixing RSS Feeds.

Cleaning Up Tag Feeds.

Media Tag Remix: An Image Feed Slideshow.

Media Tag Remix: An MP3 Jukebox.

Chapter 11: Mashing It Up with Web Services.

The HotJobs, eBay, and Flickr Autobookmarking Scripts.

Amazon: Caching Pages with S3.

Part IV: Mashups Applied: A Research Project Hub.

Chapter 12: Collecting References with a Custom Firefox Plug-In.

Starting a Firefox Extension.

Creating the Rally Poster User Interface.

Completing the Rally Poster Extension.

Deploying the Rally Poster Extension.

Chapter 13: Aggregating, Organizing, and Displaying Your Research.

Basic Page Layout.

Adding Styles.

Adding a Quick Posting Form.

Chapter 14: Bringing in Other Web Services.

Adding a Calendar.

Implementing Maps.

Chapter 15: Managing Incoming Links.

Part V: Looking Forward with del.icio.us.

Chapter 16: New and Different Directions.

Desktop, Web, and Mobile Clients.

New Perspectives on del.icio.us Data.

Effective Mashups.

The Future of del.icio.us.

Appendix A: Exercise Answers.

Appendix B: Sympathy for the API-Enabled Web Services.

Index.