Anne Eisenberg wrote an article about mashups on nytimes, how today users are able to organize and create their data applications between multiple data services without having experience in programming languages. A really nice introduction-bridge is given by the mashups revivals of pop music, excellent!

POP music has its mash-ups that combine tunes and vocals from different songs. YouTube viewers do it, too, mixing together segments from various music videos.
Now mash-ups are poised to hit the mainstream, and to spread well beyond music. Yahoo, I.B.M., Microsoft and others are creating systems to let ordinary people who’ve never been near a Java class create useful computer applications by combining, or “mashing up,” different online information sources.

read on

See an example of how it can be used by I.B.M.'s QEDWiki, which is aimed not at consumers, but at sales staff and accountants. QEDWiki is an IBM application or also called 'Enterprise Mashup Maker', it is both an IDE and a runtime framework and it sits on top of a LAMP stack and the Zend framework.

watch the intro to QEDWiki

download qedwiki, credits to dan gisolfi

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