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(More customer reviews)This book starts out ok but after the first example, it goes downhill fast. Even while working on the first example, they constantly tell you to read the api's and never go into it beyond a superficial level.
Even the writing is pretty boring which makes this very hard to read...
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AIR is a hot topic. Mashups are a hot topic. This book brings them together.Mashups are the integration of data from different sources to create one unified experience. For example, you might create a music browser application that took the name of a band you entered, and supplied you with concert photos (from Flickr), videos (from YouTube), streaming songs and similar artists (from last.fm), tour dates (from the band's blog) and the nearest location on the tour to you (displayed in Google maps). As an indication of what big-business mashups are, Microsoft has just released a beta of its own mashup-creation application: Popfly.Adobe's AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) platform is revolutionary in that it allows web developers to create applications using familiar technologies (such as Flex, Flash and HTML) but now they can deploy them on the desktop rather than having them locked to a web browser. This means that rather than opening their browser and searching for the information in the example above, they can keep an application on their desktop and run it whenever they want to.This book is the only title announced that covers mashups from a web designer and developer point of view, rather than a programmer. It is also the only book announced to leverage AIR to create desktop mashups and widgets. The book covers everything from the basics and background of mashups, to advanced functionality and integrating mashups with the desktop.
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