Original printed in: Proceeding of World Conference on Educational Media, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-Media), 2008, p. 6015-6022 The ABC-eBook System From Content Management Application to Mash-up Landscape Thomas Huber Computing and Information Services / Social Learning Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria huba@sbox.tugraz.at Walther Nagler Computing and Information Services / Social Learning Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria walther.nagler@tugraz.at Martin Ebner Computing and Information Services / Social Learning Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria martin.ebner@tugraz.at Abstract: This paper presents a complete new application for creating content for teaching and learning purposes at universities in the meaning of eLearning2.0, the ABC-Manager. The paper focuses on the advantages of the tool as well as its didactical background in comparison to other common CMSs. The current use of the ABC-Manager as an integrated part of the e-Learning strategy of Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) especially in the face of its online version (eBook of the TU Graz TeachCenter) is discussed. Furthermore an adequate scenario for the use of the ABC-eBook System embedded in a mashup environment following the principles of Web2.0 is recommended. Introduction In times of Web2.0 In times of Web 2.0 (O’Reilly 2006) efforts are made to make it as simple as possible to support user “YOU” to create and manage online content for a web portal. Not only personal information should be provided and treated but also the one for educational intention (Ebner 2007). The range between private and educational information becomes blurred evidently exercised by using the possibilities of mash-ups (Kulathuramaiyer, Maurer 2007). Creating and managing such content should be as simple as the ABC, instinctually and without any special system- syntax needed; a content management system that has its priority on creating and not on developing or programming. What should a Content Management System (CMS) really do? CMSs are applications that basically help users, authors to create, edit, mix, store, work with or embed content predominantly online. The meaning of a CMS has changed during the years subject to the evolution of e-Learning platforms. Today´s CMSs often offer a variety of additionally to the assigned use of managing content; nearly by default they have a user administration area and tools for communication as well. This overload may mirror in a lack of its fundamental effort. To produce good and high quality information it is necessary to concentrate on the content itself but not on the creating of it (Holzinger 2002). Any complicated tool or syntax makes it harder or impossible for a non professional computer user to handle it. WYGIWYS-systems are to be preferred. The tool must be as intuitional and easy to use as possible. Web2.0 applications shall be includable because internet users are finally