Dapper, not to be mistaken with the latest Ubuntu OS, is a new web service that can aggregate all types of internet content. The project website is available at www.dapper.com, although the service itself will launch shortly (in August, anyway).
Dapper may prove to be a useful tool for creating mashups -- small web applications that combine data from several online sources. Dapper allows you to build an API for any website. It will allow remarkable flexibility: if a data source is not "mashup-ready" in its current form, the Dapper service will take you through a user-friendly graphical interface tour that will result in the data being "dapped," or converted into a usable format like XML, HTML, RSS, Google Map, etc. Programmers can use dapped content in raw XML form, or use an SDK. The layman can use the tools, provided by Dapper.
