Web Applications

This week I would like to explore the issue of the different kinds of internet applications. Some key terms are

• web application
  
• web-hosted application
• Rich Internet Application
• mashup

These describe the architecture of the application which is independant of the application function (to provide a wiki, a blog, an e-commerce site...)

Here is one best-of listing from 2005.

Just to start you thinking, here is a Flickr-GoogleEarth mashup which I built using XQuery. This not the best platform to choose but its fast to develop and good for prototyping at least. Try my Flickr account: 57414735@N00 . There are many ways this mashup could be improved.