In my first article of this series, I highlighted several Web 2.0 technologies. These include:
- RSS and ATOM feeds
- Web services
- JavaScript and AJAX
- PHP/Pearl/Python scripting
- JSON
- Programming Frameworks e.g. Adobe Flex, DOJO, Ruby on Rails, OpenLaszlo and many others.
- Folksonomies
- Mashups
- Blogs
- Wikis
So far, we have discussed all of these with the exception of one. In this fourth and final article in my series on Web 2.0 and business intelligence (BI), I will address this last Web 2.0 technology. This is the issue of mashups.
The whole idea about Web 2.0 is to use the web itself as a development platform. What does that mean? Well, if you take a step back and look at the forces at work here, we are seeing a number of things emerging. These include:
