Mashup Class

Mashup Time. Had the first meeting of the summer 2007 seminar on building mashups with an eye toward semantic web integration. Topics we hope to explore include: AJAX via Google Web Toolkit, RDF, Topic Maps, MindMaps (with XML output!), JavaFX, Flex, and Voice XML. The first of five articles on Voice XML has been submitted to InformIT (www.informit.com). For a preview, have a look here.

A recent posting by Bruce Eckel (Thinking in C++ guy) makes a compelling argument for Flex and Flash. The XML language, MXML, is compilable into Flash. As we get closer to the release of iPhone (for better or worse) the role of our cell phone is definitely changing. Thus, the ability to auto generate Voice XML AND MXML (Flash) means that a server, with a bit of XSLT can dynamically generate Voice and Flash Animation that will run just about anywhere.
Keep on mashin!