Archive for the ‘Mashups’ Category
Highly pliable software platforms with mashups, widgets, SaaS, etc.
Dion Hinchcliffe reports: We’re already witnessing this [highly pliable software platforms] with the rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing, enterprise mashups, collaborative intranets that can be maintained almost entirely by workers (Enterprise 2.0), and the growing use of smaller, more granular microapplications such as widgets, gadgets, and visual feeds to combine and connect things together [...]
September 3, 2009
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Tags: Cloud Computing, collaboration, collaborative, federated, gadgets, Mashups, platforms, pliable, SaaS, Web services, widgets · Posted in: Cloud Computing, Mashups
Mashups defined
Mashups: According to Wikipedia: In web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data sources, Google Maps, Mashups, open APIs, web apps, Web services · Posted in: Mashups
Mashups: second generation Web applications
Duane Merrill reports: Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0.
September 2, 2009
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Tags: external data, Mashups, second generation, services, Web 2.0, web apps · Posted in: Mashups