Create Your own Mashup-Page integrating Google Maps, YouTube videos and Slideshare or Scribd Docs!

Mashups

The term Mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results data owners had no idea could be produced. An example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source.

Mashup use is expanding in the business environment.

After several years of standards development, mainstream businesses are starting to adopt Service-oriented Architectures (often referred to as SOA) to integrate disparate data by exposing this data as discrete Web services. Web services provide open, standardized protocols to provide a unified means of accessing information from a diverse set of platforms (operating systems, programming languages, applications.) The SOA standard for data services is Service Data Objects. These Web services can be repurposed into new services and applications within and across organizations, providing business agility.

Mashups are a key component of integrating business and data services, as mashup technologies provide the ability to develop new integrated services quickly, to combine internal services with external or personalized information, and to make these services tangible to the business user through user interfaces.

Available gadgets for BusinessWiki (list still grows!):

   1. Google Maps
   2. Scribd documents
   3. SlideShare Presentations 
   4. Google Calendars
   5. YouTube movies 

Create Mashups today with BusinessWiki http://onbusinesswiki.com/gadgets.html

Last edited by tomik99 (2008-12-19 19:05:57)