A mashup using the Google Maps API and Google News. Enter in a zipcode and the map will re-center, giving you some options to click on to get the top ten news items for that area. A PHP file takes the zipcode and polls a MySQL database returning an XML file of the coordinates and re-centering the map while the same zipcode polls Google News and the display overlays atop the map. The project makes uses of Yahoo’s YUI JavaScript library to make the AJAX calls.
AJAX
RSS Demo Mobile Web App
An HTML5 demo using an alpha version of the jQuery mobile framework and the library of RSS feeds provided by the public sites of the Harvard Business School.