It's happened again. I guess we could have predicted it fairly easily. Once Google, Microsoft, OpenKapow (openkapow.com still exists as a landing page to learn more about Kapow Technologies commercial products), and

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John Crupi. JackBe CTO, has a great blog post over at eBizQ entitled, "The Information Sound Bite of 2010: We Failed to Connect the Dots".

I disagree with John on one point though; this isn't the sound bite of 2010; I think I've been hearing about breakdowns in communication between government offices si… Continue

I don't think we will look back on 2009 as "The Year of Mashups". I'll choose to blame that ever-popular scapegoat "The Economic Downturn". It's tough to move towards a technology that rebalances the relationship between IT and End-users when peoples' main concern is keeping their job. And "mashups" still remain misunderstood by many. At my regular "9 to 5" gig for example, management along with many of my coworkers still haven't grasped their potential even though I have done my best to evangel… Continue

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Happy Holidays!

I hate the make this into a mashup obituary column, but alas I have to report that social media/mashup experiment Zembly is biting the dust according to this blog post on their site.

I first learned about Zembly during the time I was wrapping up Mashup Patterns, because the publisher (Pearson) also operates Sun Press, and they had just released a book on the subject. A book on a product still -and never to leave, apparent… Continue