Don’t mash on the desktop - mash on the web
by Rod Boothby
Dion Hinchcliffe says that Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time. Back in June 2006 he wrote an interesting article describing the various strategies people take to mashing up web services. He came up with a list of five approaches, which basically break down to building the mash-up on the client, or building the mash-up on the server. The executable web is in it’s early stages, and most people are only familiar with mashups that combine two or three web services. HousingMaps.com, for example, combines Craigslist, a geo-endocder and Google Maps.
As the number of web services vendors (WSVs) increase, end users will demand even more complex mashup applications. These multi-stage mushups have the potential to both consume information and expose the results. Thus, just as it makes sense to move some applications off the desktop and on to the web, it will make sense to move mashup platforms off the desktop and onto the web.
