Dapper – Empowering Content Providers
March 11, 2007 3:18 am Web 2.0
Dapper is now open to the public and in the coming months, expect to see new features and improvements to Dapper’s functionality. Dapper’s mission is to allow visitors to use any web based content in any way imaginable. And it means going beyond just reading or viewing a webpage. You may want to create an RSS feed or a Google Gadget for a site, take a site’s content and put it on a map. Whatever you want to do, however you want to mold the web, Dapper can help you do it.
There is non-stop music hits on your favorites from Dapper here. By creating a Dapp (web service), you can browse to find pages. Use their virtual browser to add similar pages from a website into your basket. For instance, if you want to build a Dapp for Google search results, enter http://www.google.com and then perform a few searches, adding each search results page to your basket. You can also have Dapplications which are web-based services that use Dapps. Here are a list of Dapplications that have been created by the Dapper community.
You can think of a Dapp as a “black box” which represents a specific type of page on a specific website on the Internet. The Dapp provides access to the content of that specific website in XML. Basically, the web is your playground.



