Flickr Mashups
Chapter One
Rewriting the Web
Over the past few years, the Web has seen dramatic growth - both in the actual number of users
and in the sheer volume of information available to them. As more and more people start making
use of the Web, more web sites appear. The volume of available information is overwhelming - and
more importantly, the number of ways in which people wish to use the information available
to them is increasing rapidly.
Service providers have come to realize that they simply cannot keep up with demand - they cannot
hope to satisfy all of the people all of the time. The audience out there is so large and diverse
that it is no longer possible to build all the systems their customers desire. Realizing this, some
service providers have addressed the problem in a rather innovative way - instead of closely
guarding their corporate data and systems, they have t ... read full excerpt from Flickr Mashups ebook
