What is a mashup? How do server side mashups work? Learn about mashups in this mashup tutorial. See axample mashups like delexa.org.

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What's a Mashup?

An example is a web site that displays a list of restaurants in a given city and displays a map that highlights the location of the restaurants. The two types of information often come from different sites. This integration of services and content from multiple web sites is called a mashup.

Most sites add value beyond a simple integration of services and content. They benefit users in a manner that is different and better than the individual services. For example, Delexa.org brings together data from the social bookmarking site del.icio.us and the web site traffic tracker Alexa. Delexa.org uses the topic tags it gets from del.icio.us to allow users to search for top traffic sites by topic. A user can view the most frequently visited gardening or karate sites, for example.