Gadgets & Mashups

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

Mashups

Mashup means easy and fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that 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 any source.

Mashup use is expanding in the business environment.

After several years of standard development, mainstream businesses are starting to adopt Service-oriented architectures (often referred to as SOA) to integrate different data by exposing it as 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 key components 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 available to the business user through user interfaces.

Create Mashups today with BusinessWiki

Available gadgets (the list is still growing!): 

  1. Google Maps (see official page)
  2. Scribd documents (see official page)
  3. SlideShare Presentations  (see official page)
  4. Google Calendars  (see official page)
  5. YouTube movies  (see official page)

 

 
Edit Your gadgets in WYSIWYG mode  

 

Advantages

  1. Create interesting marketing pages with SlideShare presentations
  2. Extend User-Profiles with Google Maps
  3. Add Videocasts and materials from Youtube to support Your concepts and create interesting e-learning materials
 
 Add multiple gadgets and create a mashup page