Google and BEA are in talks about partnering on a new initiative that will allow organisations to create mash-ups between enterprise portals and applications such as Google Maps.
Online search giant Google has added an extra feature to Google Maps to simplify the creation of maps mash-ups so users can quickly share the results.
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With its Platinum Plus package the direct PC champ seeks a higher profile and a larger slice of the pie for its services offerings. New to the menu: a personal tech guru, benchmarking data centre performance and a Google Earth mashup.
At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM showed off an early version of Lotus Mashups, a tool designed to let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, quickly assemble Web applications.
You hear a lot about mashups in Web 2.0 -- where one data source is combined with another to produce a new application where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- but the musical version of the term is far more apposite to corporate uses of 2.0 techniques than anything which relies on Google Maps APIs.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
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Mashups involving digital maps are bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds, with uses ranging from local shopping and traffic reports to online dating and community organising.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
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Barry Vandevier of Travelocity talks about his company's efforts to deploy Web 2.0 technologies for the next generation of online travel.
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