http://blog.mashupguide.net A blog about Raymond Yee's Book Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:31:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you who have tried to download code for the book but haven't been able to find the download, there are currently two places you can download the code for the examples in the book. First, you can download it from mashupguide.net: http://examples.mashupguide.net/ProWeb20MashupsCode.zip Alternatively, you can go to Apress, ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/06/09/how-to-download-code-for-this-book/ AIM announces winners of the Open AIM Developer Challenge. Some coverage: AOL Announces Open AIM Dev Contest Winners - ReadWriteWeb AOL gives out $100,000 in prizes to AIM plugin coders - Download Squad OUseful Info: An OpenLibrary API Handshake With Yahoo Pipes cf my PW post (Open Library API: Cataloging 13 Million ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/05/21/notelets-for-20080520/ I'm pleased to announce that my first book interview is now online: Working with Data Sources, part of Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators. I was excited and a bit nervous talking to Jon over the phone, someone whose work I've admired for years. Undoubtedly, I was pleased ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/04/28/my-interview-with-jon-udell-working-with-data-sources/ My book sighted at the UC Berkeley bookstore Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee This is the first time I actually saw my book at a in-real-life brick & mortar bookstore, specifically the UC Berkeley ASUC bookstore. Needless to say, I ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/04/05/my-book-sighted-at-the-uc-berkeley-bookstore/ On Monday, I gave an introductory talk on mashups at Mashup University.  I created a few notes while I talked. Here they are: Raymond Yee Lecturer, School of Information, UC Berkeley Feel free to send me email: yee@berkeley.edu / raymondyee@mashupguide.net Book URL: http://blog.mashupguide.net/toc/ or http://tinyurl.com/2shmy9 A project that I'm associated with: http://zotero.org Some burning questions from the participants: How to apply to ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/03/21/notes-from-my-class-at-mashup-university/ Raymond Yee teachs Intro to Mashups at Mashup University Originally uploaded by dberlind Yesterday, I led two sessions at Mashup University (part of Mashup Camp #6), held in Mountain View, CA: Mashup 101: Getting Oriented to the World of Mashups This session will help ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/03/18/i-taught-the-intro-to-mashups-at-mashup-university/ While I work on converting the book from QuarkXPress into HTML and XML, I've posted the text of book (in the form of pdfs).    For instance, you can now read the Introduction or Chapter 1 on "Learning from Mashups". http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/03/16/the-text-from-the-book-is-now-available/ One of the fun parts of writing my book was writing the marketing blurb on the back cover of the book.   I often find myself reaching to copy and paste it into emails or other documents when I describe my book.  Here it is: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/03/12/the-cover-blurb/ 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 ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/02/29/the-book-is-available-now/ 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 ... http://blog.mashupguide.net/2008/02/20/anyone-know-how-to-extract-content-from-quarkxpress/