I attended a NERCOMP event on Mashups in Education last week where I did a presentation on Mashups for the Masses that described tools for creating mashups that don’t require programming such as Google Reader, Yahoo Pipes, Dapper, Popfly, iGoogle and Netvibes. I also attempted to categorize mashups into those by integration and those by aggregation. Finally I discussed various standards such as OpenID, Google’s OpenSocial, the Open Knowledge Initiative’s open service interface definitions (OSIDs) and Netvibes universal widget specifications that should make mashups easier in the future.
There were a number of presentations on Facebook includingH-link, a Face Book application which uses Harvard University course enrollment information to allow students to link directly from Facebook to their course websites and another from Harris Connect that allows alumni to find and communicate with each other on Facebook.