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 The network digram contains 150 nodes and over 1200 mashups.
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If context is important, searching on mobile devices should be very useful to individuals. For some reason, these services haven't taken off in the US. Simply providing applications that exist for the desktop is not the solution. Since users of mobile devices seldom share their device with others, they are ready for very customized search results. In addition, the availability of locational information can significantly improve search results. Some interesting applications are being lauched to identify potential social and entertaintment opportunities. See an interesting article on CNET about Google and its mobile ambitions.
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 Now there are over 1200 mashups and 139 nodes (components). In the picture, color is used to differentiate players (e.g.: Google is the dark blue), link thickness represents number of mashups made between two APIs, and size of circles represent number of APIs. Position of the nodes can be interpreted as its importance (centrally located being more important). Of then non-affiliated nodes, technorati and DigitalPodcast are centrally located.
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A recent businessweek article provides examples of companies using mashups for their daily activities. As companies look at their IT portfolio, they have to have a place for proprietary software, packaged software, opensource software and mashups. Just like the vendors in the opensource ecosystem that has grown in the recent years, players have entered the mashup marketplace with solutions that support development and maintenance of applications. While there are security and privacy issues to be resolved, companies should not ignore mashups as a software development strategy.
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Microsoft announced a deal with Novell that involves some joint selling and technology licensing around SuSe Linux. This follows closely the announcement from Oracle committing support to Linux. As a result of these announcements products from those vendors will start working on the Linux environment and promote interoperability with other products. My guess is that these two vendors are treating operating systems as commodities and interoperability will allow them to sell more products and services.
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Of late, I have been hearing quite a bit about the online digital world called second life. Recently, a presidential hopeful made an appearance and answered questions from the host -- see link. In a Boston Globe article the writer sees many possibilities for commerce, education and social life. From what I have read, this online world feels like the early Internet days -- everyone saw potential but no one was clear on how to realize it! Recent statistics show that they have over 1.2 million residents on second life. As a comparison, there are billions of Internet users, 100 million myspace residents and 80 million users of Google. I'm sure we are going to hear much more about this in the coming months. Meanwhile, I want my own avatar on second life!
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 Last week John Musser wrote a blog about my network diagram. Thanks John for keeping the data flowing into my network engine. As you can see the number of mashups have increased over the months. This figure has 135 nodes and 1153 links. YouTube and JotSpot are now part of Google and colored blue. Zillow has entered the fray with links to eBay and Google.
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