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New Microsoft Business Solutions' Web Services

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1929486,00.asp?kc=ewnws022206dtx1k0000599

Article: "Microsoft Business Apps Unit Readies New Web 2.0 Mashups," by Mary Jo Foley. Discusses the new Microsoft Business Solutions' Web Services add-ons for their ERP and CRM applications.

"Mashup Apps and Competitive Advantage"

http://www.usernomics.com/news/2005/10/mash-up-apps-and-competitive-advantage.html

Article entitled “Mashup Apps and Competitive Advantage: Benefits of mashups including user experience.”

“The Branding and Mapping Mashup"

http://www.clickz.com/experts/brand/brand/article.php/3528921

Article entitled “The Branding and Mapping Mashup.” The article discusses how mashups can be used to bring brands to users based on geographic location. For example, users can find the cheapest gasoline in their area. This gives a business a chance to increase sales and reputation in its area.

Mashups Using Google Maps

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2005-08-16-maney-google-mashups_x.htm

Article that discusses the proliferation of mashups that use Google Maps.

Newsmashing

http://www.slate.com/id/2114791/

Article on newsmashing—a mashup of blogs with the news stories to which they refer. This allows you to see a complete article and read the commentary from the blogosphere so that you can get the whole story (and perhaps know that the blogger is telling it straight).

“Sampling the Web’s Best Mashups"

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/07/mashups/index_01.htm

Business Week Online article entitled “Sampling the Web’s Best Mashups” that lists 10 popular mashups.

"Technology: Time For Your Mash-up?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11569228/site/newsweek/

Article: "Technology: Time For Your Mash-up?" by N'gai Croal. Discusses the history of mashups, music mashups, video mashups, and Web apps.

"Pop Music 1 + 1 + 1 = 1: The New Math of Mashups"

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/?050110crmu_music

Article: "Pop Music 1 + 1 + 1 = 1: The New Math of Mashups," by Sasha Frere-Jones. Discusses the history of mashups and how they are formed.

"IBM Offers Enterprise Mashup Tool"

http://www.iwr.co.uk/itweek/news/2158675/ibm-offers-enterprise-mashup

Article: "IBM Offers Enterprise Mashup Tool," by Phil Muncaster. Discusses IBM's announcement of its Enterprise Mashup framework that helps users create their own mashups quickly and easily.

"Mashups: An Easy, Free Way to Create Custom Web A

http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5788.cfm

Article: "Mashups: An Easy, Free Way to Create Custom Web Apps," by Brian Satterfield. Discusses the tools and resources for building mashups. Lists several mashup sites including Givezilla (for nonprofits), Podbop (MP3 files and concert listings), and Strmz (streaming video, video blogs and video podcasts).

"Mashups- The API Buffet"

http://www.factiva.com/infopro/articles/Sept2006Feature.asp?node=menuElem1103

Article: "Mashups—The API Buffet," from Factiva. A clear explanation of what mashups are and how they are created.

"Mashup Data Formats"

http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/203935.htm

Article: "Mashup Data Formats: JSON versus XML/XMLHttpRequest," by Daniel B. Markham. Compares the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and XML/XMLHttpRequest technologies for use in Web applications.

"An Introduction to Mashups"

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-mashups.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16MashupChallenges

Article: "Mashups the New Breed of Web App: An Introduction to Mashups," by Duane Merrill. Discusses what mashups are, types (genres) of mashups (mapping, video, photo, search, shopping, and news), related technologies (such as architecture, Ajax, Web protocols, screen scraping, semantic Web, RDF, RSS and ATOM), technical challenges (including data integration and component challenges), and social challenges.