Archive for April, 2009

Mashup Frenzy

This week’s activities and resources on our LIBR 246 class are on mashups, defined as a web application that combines two or more data source to create a single integrated tool. An example of a mashup is taking data like sales figures, job postings, sales and rental ads and using some sort of geographic tagging [...]

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Library images mashup as slideshow

The same mashup as the previous one but this time displayed as a slideshow rather than overlayed on a map.
{“pipe_id”:”hnTasdon3hG9vX2jZMag4A”,”_btype”:”image”}

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Library images with map overlay mashup

In this mashup I again used Yahoo Pipes and created a mashup of RSS feeds of images that has a title or a tag of library building. I got feeds from Photobucket, SmugMug and Flickr. Aside from a fetch feed and flickr module, I used a truncate, filter, union and location extractor module to create [...]

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Green Living tips mashup

In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Wednesday, I created this mashups using RSS feeds from Green Living tips, Daily Green.com, and Ideal Bites.com using Yahoo Pipes. I used the fetch feed module and added the RSS feeds from the sites I mentioned. Then I added a sort module and sorted the feed to [...]

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Cool Tools for Library 2.0 Video and Podcast Series

Cool Tools for Library 2.0 Video and Podcast Series is a series of screencasts and podcasts produced by graduate students of LIBR 246 class under Prof. Debbie Faires at San Jose State University – School of Library and Information Science. Each student picks a Web 2.0 tool and creates a podcast and a screencast to [...]

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Synchronous online communication tools

This week’s activity in our LIBR 246 class under Prof. Faires is on synchronous online communications. The activities involved interacting with other students using instant messaging and internet telephony.  The choices are Google Talk, Skype, Meebo, and AIM. I already have an account with Google Talk, Skype, and MeeboMe so I did not have to [...]

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