Business and Entertainment Mashups

Posted on July 24, 2007
Filed Under Web 2.0 |

We always said that first the geeks and the wild people do it, and then business starts to notice; then it gets a little boring, but it changes our world. It’s still kind of in the wild - at David Berlind’s Mashup Camp - but mashups are getting some useful business development now.

If you want to follow the link there’s a short video here of Berlind’s interview with Mark Madsen, who created a business app in nine hours flat using mashup tools.

Aside from the many demonstrations of existing mashups and mashup technologies, Mashup Camp (and the culture) are very much about spur of the moment of hacking. Very much like chaos, this style of app dev is probably the antithesis to the approach that enterprises and other organizations take when developing internal software. But, given the 9 hours in total it took Madsen to build an application that, five years ago, might have taken 9 months, his Cold Call Assistant is living breathing proof of how incredibly important the mashup culture will be to business agility and success. - Mashup culture shatters crusty, stodgy old approach to business app dev

Enough of business, how about some entertainment? Winner this year in the Speed Geeking category was chime.tv, and Berlind again has the interview and a video pointing out the features of the mashup.

David’s correct, you will want to see chime.tv yourself - it’s a beautiful interface, all Flash, strictly browser-based, and featuring collections of video content organized by subject, retrieved from several sources. And the best news about chime.tv is is that you can create your own collections of videos.

David Berlind’s interview video and article at ZDNet:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=655

ChimeTV:
http://chime.tv/

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One Response to “Business and Entertainment Mashups”

  1. thetracksuitceo on July 26th, 2007 7:13 am

    The mashup is a perfect example of the democratic nature of Web 2.0
    2 companies spend millions to build their online tool/service and some teenager comes along and mashes them together in an afternoon.
    Talk about leveling the playing field!

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