11.14.05
Mash-Ups
Business week had an article a while back on a new term called “Mash-Ups”. Mash-Up is about remixing and creating a consumer service with a combination of data and features of two or more existing sites and services. Some good examples are chicagocrime.org that combines google map with Chicago crime data or BusMonster that combines google map with traffic condition to create a more useful services out of existing offerings. This consumer/Internet move mirrors the today’s enterprise trend of “composite app” with web services and data aggregation.
As more of more data and service become available in the market place, it is no longer the question of whether there are enough services, but what the best services are. With proliferation of existing data and services out there, it makes great sense not to reinvent the wheel, but to build a car. We watch the hardware sector moving offerings from a single chip to multiple chips to board to computer; I think we are seeing more and more resemblance in the software/service perspective.
Boundaryfree » WebEx Connect said,
September 26, 2006 at 2:52 pm
[…] I was invited to the VIP reception for Webex’s big splash announcement on Monday night after the SaasCon. I have a lot of respect for WebEx, because of its execution capability and talents within the company. Min Zhu, co-founder of WebEx, is probably one of the smartest technologists I know. I have been expecting a lot since I know there is something cooking. What is being announced is called WebEx Connect, a web collaboration platform that ties business process, application, data and users together beyond a company’s boundary (I would call it boundaryfree collaboration). WebEx is leveraging its strength in communication, collaboration and web meeting, together with the Cordys’s data and process integration, and put that together in multi-tenant hosting environment, and deliver it as SaaS. […]