Mashup TOOLS — Scrape and Recombine

Scrapers, Analysers, Dashboard and Business Logic?

clipped from blogs.zdnet.com A bumper crop of new mashup platforms Google Mashup Editor (GME) Several other important trends stand out: Most mashup platforms have not yet fully seized on the power of widgets and gadgets to provide an effective model for sourcing components and composing mashups. The existing generation of platforms is also probably making it too hard for communities of user to form and share solutions that are easily cloned and tweaked. This could providing a Darwinian-like model of rapid, viral software evolution that provides thousands of tiny improvements on a continuous basis from a large user community, allowing complex applications to emerge that naturally fit their environments. A far-fetched sounding idea but one in which the large networks of our enterprises and particularly the Web have more than enough motivated participants to make this happen, if only the tools would focus on it.