mashup
Initial Review of Wik.is Pro Account Powered by MindTouch's Deki Wiki
I started to host tahoewiki.org on Wik.is with a pro account a couple weeks ago. It's powered by Deki Wiki which I first learned through ReadWriteWeb. Time for me to give a review.
Reasons for choosing Deki Wiki:
- It's open source
- It has a suite of widgets and web Services mashing up contents. The mashup features are important because I want to bring in contents from other sites into the wiki
The Importance of Web 2.0: Public API for Ad-Hoc Application Integration
There have been lots of articles/blogs written on Web 2.0.
Here is my take on it: Web 2.0 comes with richer, more responsive user experience. But behind the theme, it really drives the semantic web adoption although people may not have realized that. When you have a web application that updates part of its view (a web page) instead of reloading the whole page or directing to a brand new page, the web application mostly gets the DATA(not the view) from a server and updates the view with the new data. A crucial feature of any web 2.0 application is that it opens a API for getting the application data. Like it or not, the API is public because it's exposed through HTTP regardless whether developers behind it indent to have it as a pubic API. People can easily use some tools to analyze HTTP requests to reverse-engineering the API.
Tags: web2.0 semanticweb api mashup
