Apress book “Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services” by Raymond Yee is available free of charge under a Creative Commons (by-nc-sa-2.5) license. You can download each chapter in pdf format.
Book Description
Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services teaches you everything you need to create useful, dynamic real–world applications using APIs, web services, Ajax, web standards, and server–side languages. All you need to make full use of this book is basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and at least one server–side language (such as PHP or ASP.NET).
Table of Contents
- Learning from Specific Mashups
- Uncovering the Mashup Potential of Web Sites
- Understanding Tagging and Folksonomies
- Working with Feeds, RSS, and Atom
- Integrating with Blogs
- Learning Web Services APIs Through Flickr
- Exploring Other Web APIs
- Learning Ajax/JavaScript Widgets and Their APIs
- Moving from APIs and Remixable Elements to Mashups
- Creating Mashups of Several Services
- Using Tools to Create Mashups
- Making Your Web Site Mashable
- Remixing Online Maps and 3D Digital Globes
- Exploring Social Bookmarking and Bibliographic Systems
- Accessing Online Calendars and Event Aggregators
- Using Online Storage Services
- Mashing Up Desktop and Web-Based Office Suites
- Using Microformats and RDFa As Embeddable Data Formats
- Integrating Search