[CAnet - news] Google Mashups = Cyber-infrastructure & SOA for the rest of us

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[Great article on Google mashups in NY Times.  Mashups (aka Web 2.0, Third
Wave, eInfrastructure, eScience, etc) represent the rapidly evolving world
of cyber-infrastructure using Service Oriented Architecture tools such as
AJAX.

Cyber-infrastructure has often been equated with high performance computing
and academic research.  But its real power and revolutionary potential of
cyber-infrastructure technologies will be with a whole range of new exciting
computer to computer applications in multi-media, learning, health,
entertainment etc

Some excerpts from the NY Times article.  Thanks to Dave Macneil for this
pointer -- BSA]


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/technology/circuits/20maps.html?th=&adxnnl
=1&emc=th
&adxnnlx=1129817321-/v+TkJMzpVzhoJfZAFokPA&pagewanted=print



A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code
By DAMON DARLIN

An army of programmers, most of them doing it just for fun, has grabbed the
software code that generates the distinctive maps with their drop-shadowed
virtual pushpins, and combined it with other data like the locations of
potholes, taco trucks and U.F.O. sightings, and even the sites of murders
and muggings.

The result is Google map mash-ups, the latest form of Internet information 
repackaged for entertainment and, perhaps, profit. The programming
technique, itself a mash-up of programs, is also known as Ajax, for
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

"It is happening so fast," said Jef Poskanzer, a longtime programmer in
Berkeley, Calif. The difference, he said, is that it is now even more
democratic because it is so simple to do. 

Google recognized while developing the mapping feature that it would not
have the time or the desire to create a host of special interest maps. Yet
having numerous mash-ups would serve Google's strategy of becoming the
ubiquitous organizer of the world's information - hence its openness

Yahoo has opened the A.P.I.'s behind several of its Web services, including
Flickr, its photo-storing site; Yahoo Shopping; and Yahoo Maps


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