Mashup Guide

I'm very excited to announce that the book is available for purchase now. Please go buy a copy for you, each one of your loved ones, your friends, your enemies, the mayor of your city, your minister, rabbi, priest, or guru, your barber or hair dresser -- anyone and everyone:

• Apress (http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059858X)
• Amazon (http://snurl.com/27p7q)
• Barnes and Noble (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781590598580)
• your local independent bookseller (which you can locate with BookSense)

The book has been sent off to the printers! Apress has told me that I should be getting my author copies sometime next week, and that the books should hit the bookstores some weeks after that. In the meantime, you can pre-order the book from a number of sources:

• Apress (http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059858X)
• Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Web-2-0-Mashups-Remixing/dp/159059858X)
• Barnes and Noble (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781590598580)
• your local independent bookseller (which you can locate with BookSense)

In the meantime, I'm working hard on repurposing my book into HTML and XML (probably DocBook) so that the book is in a more web-friendly format.   Apress and I are making the book available under a By-NC-SA-2.5 Creative Commons license -- meaning that you'll be able to circulate copies of the book for non-commercial reuse.  The problem is that my book went from being in Microsoft Word (for which I have some experience extracting content) to QuarkXPress during the copy-editing/proof-reading stages.

I might be able to figure out how to convert my book to DocBook, but I'm afraid that will probably take a while to do since I'm completely new to QuarkXPress (and things like the avenue.quark XTension). Can anyone out there help me to convert my book? I'm certainly willing to pay someone to do the task.

While finishing my book, it wasn't possible for me to keep up with all the changes that were happening with the many web applications I track in the book.  One such change came in Yahoo! Pipes:  Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » New "Fetch Page" module and nice web path enhancement….

I have to try the Pipes Fetch Page Module to do some scraping of HTML pages. Also one can start using nicer URLs for various pipes.   For instance,

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?InputURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fservices%2Fxml%2Frss%2Fnyt%2FInternational.xml&_id=cInT4D7B3BGMoxPNiXrL0A&_render=kml

can now be substituted with

http://pipes.yahoo.com/raymondyee/locationextractor?InputURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fservices%2Fxml%2Frss%2Fnyt%2FInternational.xml&_render=kml