Calling Cross Domain Web Services in AJAX

One of the current vogues in web applications is the creation of mashups. This involves the marrying of content and/or functionality from two different sources. Over the last few years, the opening up of formerly proprietary APIs from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Last.fm, Flickr, YouTube and Amazon has allowed developers to implement in their own applications, with simple one line calls to the requisite APIs, features such as adding photos, maps, booklists, videos and playlists. [Detail]