In Part I, we looked at how to recombine information without resorting to formal programming techniques. There is a lot that can be done by carefully examining various web applications from the perspective of an end user looking for integrative opportunities. We studied, for instance, how you can recombine information through manipulating URLs, introducing tags, and connecting feeds from one application to another.
In the rest of the book, we’ll take on the programmer’s perspective. In the first two chapters in this part, for example, we turn to learning about how to use web services, starting from the concrete example of Flickr (Chapter 6) and then contrasting and comparing Flickr to other examples (Chapter 7). In Chapter 8, we turn to Ajax-based and JavaScript-based widgets, building upon what we learn in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.
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