Example of a web mashup at work
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Web
A web Mashup is essentially a way of taking data from one web service or application and then using another web service or application to either add to, modify, or display the data in a unique way.
Ran across an excellent blog posting that demonstrated this.
… So to recap, we have scraped some data from a wikipedia page into a Google spreadsheet using the =importHTML formula, published a handful of rows from the table as CSV, consumed the CSV in a Yahoo pipe and created a geocoded KML feed from it, and then displayed it in a Google map.
-Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets
The resulting KML file can viewed in Google Maps here.
Tags: Google, Mashup, Web, Wikipedia, Yahoo
