It has been a while since I posted a visualization on mashups. Here is a new one. I have highlighted some of the platform providers as diamonds in the picture. Since my last visualization in 2007, Twitter is one new player that has emerged as central to the ecosystem. A whole slew of applications have been created to run on the Twitter platform. Amazon and Facebook applications have also entered into the picture. As I think about mashups, I think they are the early examples of applications that run on clouds. One can think of the diamonds as cloud platforms and the circles as applications that run on these clouds. I am sure thta there are other plaforms that I'm missing in my highlights. I have started a new project on this topic and will post more visuals on this as my understanding of the domain improves.

The data for this visualization was provided by programmableweb.com