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The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups

The promise of remixing existing online services and data into entirely new online applications in a rapid, inexpensive manner, often referred to as mashups, has captured the software industry's imagination since the release of first major example, HousingMaps.com, in early 2005. Since then, mashups have offered the potential to...

Tags: Spreadsheet, IBM Corp., Mashup, ProgrammableWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-16

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Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA

The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Mashup Camp Dublin or bust, Office Live Workspace (or bust), Laszlo's Switzerland of RIAs, Outlook '07, JGE, etc.

We here at ZDNet have been working on some podcasts and reviewcasts today and I've been trying to clear out my inbox as I prepare to jump on an Aer Lingus flight tomorrow to Dublin, Ireland for Mashup Camp's first foray into Europe. I've been working with the developer...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office Live, Handset, Rich Internet Application, Laszlo Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Laszlo Webtop, Microsoft Outlook, Programming Languages, Microsoft Office, Java, Groupware, Office Suites, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-07

The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups

The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashupsAwesome piece, DionThere is something about the disruptive nature of mashups that is unsettling, alarming. So, even if you work though many of the technical issues you've so elegantly pointed out above, you still have to triumph over an even more challenging one--...

Tags: JavaScript, mashup, Serena

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Via OpenSearch, IBM & ProgrammableWeb take pain out of finding, adding widgets to mashups

In this, our fourth experimental " reviewcast" (a videocast review of software or Web-based solutions that uses a combination of video cameras, still images, a WebEx-esque remotely delivered demo, and audio from our podcasting rig), I take a look at a newly announced collaboration involving the mashup development tools from...

Tags: IBM Corp., Mashup, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Demo: BEA's AquaLogic Pages and IBM's QEDWiki to battle for corporate mashup crown

All you need is a quick visit to John Musser's most excellent programmableweb.com or to one of the upcoming Mashup Camps (the next one is coming up in Silicon Valley in July, register here) to know that mashups are the hottest software development category going right now. Mashups, normally...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

eBay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?

Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...

Tags: Yahoo, Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, Innovation, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, E-commerce, Berlind, Amazon

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Mashups: The next major new software development model?

At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...

Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis

Blog posts 2007-05-14

A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups

Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...

Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications.  Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-05

Assembling great software: A round-up of eight mashup tools

There is a frequently recurring piece of software development lore that plays on the fact that good programmers are supposed to be lazy. In these stories, a good programmer will take a frequently recurring, monotonous task like testing and instead of doing it by hand, will instead...

Tags: tool, mashup

Blog posts 2006-09-02

Amazon.com: IT utility to the enterprise?

Computing delivered across the wire at the flick of the switch, just as predictably and effortlessly as we already receive electricity, telecoms and water. Ever since computer science academic Martin Greenberger first posited the notion of an 'Information Utility' in a May 1964 article for Atlantic Monthly,...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-04

Google Maps, the fool's gold of mashups

With Dave Berlind's Mashup Camp and University coming up next week, this seems like a good time to consider why so many of the Web 2.0 mashups out there are with Google Maps or similar mapping services (ProgrammableWeb currently lists 513 mapping mashups out of 815 total mashups). It's not...

Tags: mashup

Blog posts 2006-07-06

Interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, Pt 2: On Personalization and Fighting Spam

In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg's popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the final part of this interview, Kevin and I talk about digg's battle with spammers and the upcoming release of new personalization features, plus an API. On...

Tags: spam

Blog posts 2006-02-02