Archive for June, 2007

Vocabulary Building for Parents - A “Mashup”

Suddenly the term “mashup” is appearing everywhere. Have your kids used it yet? They probably will soon if they are not already. We are probably going to see many “mashups” - or the digital remixing of content including music, sound bytes, pictures, text, video and more - as the 2008 Presidential Race heats up. It’s […]

Mashup Tool Tutorials - Popfly, Ajax, Swivel, Schmapplets

Mashups are not something for tomorrow - they have already arrived. This can be seen by the increasing number of mashup tools that are available.
I have been writing about a number of mashup tools on my blog, and I encourage you to take a look. Here is my list of tutorials so far:
Ajax + JSON […]

How to build a simple mashup step by step with Popfly

Here is a step by step guid to how to build a simple mashup with Microsoft’s new Poplfy platform.
Click here: Create a Poply Mashup Guide

The Risks of Mashups & Web 2.0 Applications

A good way to remember things is to use mnemonics, so when you’re trying to list the security issues relevant to Web 2.0 just remember this: it’s a MASHup.
* More of everything.
* Asymmetric data formats
* Scripting based
* Hidden URLs […]

IBM, BEA Mash Up Line-of-Business Employees

Almost every keynote, presentation or sales pitch at this week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference eventually gets round to the same theme: The consumerization of enterprise IT. We’ve all become accustomed to RIAs and new ways of communicating in our personal lives, and people just now entering the workforce have never known a world without the Web.
Yet […]

What is Enterprise 2.0?

“Enterprise 2.0″ has a simple definition: The application of Web 2.0 technologies to the enterprise. But there are almost as many different meanings for “Web 2.0″ as there are mashups, making “Enterprise 2.0″ an equally nebulous concept. At this week’s Enterprise 2.0 show, the emphasis was on RIAs (rich Internet applications) that enable collaboration. Here […]

Web 2.0 Tools Become Mainstream For Corporations

Despite its lack of a precise definition, Web 2.0 is becoming a major influence in the corporate world. The theme of a good number of stories published this week in association with the Enterprise 2.0 conference that was held in Boston is that IT personnel can’t stop the tide and, if they know what is […]

McAfee and Davenport: Value of Enterprise 2.0

This morning I moderated the debate between Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport on the merits of Enterprise 2.0 (watch the video of the debate). The two professors agreed that Enterprise 2.0 is in its infancy, but disagreed on the potential for it to transform how people work in corporations.
McAfee, an associate professor at Harvard Business […]

Microsoft Shows Off the Toys in Its Sandbox

Microsoft demonstrates new managed network mashups from Sandbox members, announces winner of first Sandbox developer competition, welcomes new Sandbox partners, wins NXTcomm award.
The Connected Services Sandbox was created to help telecommunications service providers rapidly develop, test and commercialize a range of innovative new services,” said Michael O’Hara, general manager for the Communications Sector at […]

Google Developer Day: The Google AJAX APIs

The Google AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic features on your existing web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. Using this family of APIs you can add a map to your site, include dynamic search controls, or download and mashup feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. The APIs that make up this […]