CodeProfessor

Slightly New Direction March 27, 2007

With all the great new Web 2.0 mashup applications that are coming out - such as Yahoo Pipes, Teqlo, OpenKapow and no doubt others - I realized that I could stick with my agenda of having this site be about “light coding” even if I started discussing these applications. (I’m not only changing content direction - slightly - I’m also going to give the site a theme facelift.)

Plug and play modules with virtually no programming required are very likely the future of application design for the masses. Imagine being able to write your own web-based applications with very little effort. If that sounds like something you’d like to know more about, check back soon as I’ll be creating a lot of mashups of mashups, and even possibly some WordPress plugins that take those web feed-based mashups and display the results in HTML on your blog.

By the way, if you have an interest in RSS/Atom web feeds in general, please go check out my RSS Cases weblog, which is part of Rok Hrastnik’s esteemed Marketing Studies website. Rok is known as “Mr. RSS” in some circles, as he wrote one of the best ebooks around on web feeds and why they’re important to online marketing and general promotion of websites. Read his RSS Diary if you are interested in the marketing side of web feeds.

Web feeds are what drive many (all?) of these new Web 2.0 mashup services, and what will fuel Web 3.0/ Semantic Web .