Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Enterprise Mashups

Dion Hinchcliffe blogs much less frequently than he did a year ago, but continues to be one of the more thoughtful observers of all things 2.0.

His discussion of enterprise mashups is typical...enough structure to provoke interesting questions, but not so much as to unnecessarily narrow the conversation...hitting a catalytic bull's eye, as he usually does.

I'd been wondering what had happened to QEDwiki, now I know. The key trend here is the emergence of standards that enable interoperability, along with more robust security.

Mashups are a qualitatively different kind of IT in the way they shift the focus to non-IT people creating mission-centric solutions. This is truly revolutionary stuff (and a vanishingly small percentage of what we see in our lifetimes is).

Security remains the tiger in the middle of the room, so it's nice to see Dion focus on it.

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