Anthony Bradley

I cover how enterprises can build better IT solutions by capitalizing on Web 2.0 and SOA. The common thread here is really on gaining better sharing including both content and capability sharing. SOA, social solutions, cloud, and mashups all demand sharing and reuse. You’ll never achieve significant success in any of them without developing a [...]

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OK, now it is starting to seem gratuitous after my post titled “You Can’t Build a Business Case for Social Software.” But I do actually have a point.
Like social software, you can’t build a universal business case for mashups but need to examine how you can apply mashups to gain business value. In other words, [...]

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I feel compelled to step in voice my concern over the drifting of the term mashup. I’m not sure why I felt that mashups would not undergo the typical hype expansion other terms experience when the bandwagon begins to roll. I think much of my initial belief stemmed from the fact that mashups came from [...]

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I’m just returning from a few days of travel in the Washington DC area where I met with or presented to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Social Security Administration (SSA), and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on mashups, SOA, WOA, and cloud computing.
I also spent some quality time with the leadership team of mashup vendor [...]

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This is a great article on Best Buy opening up their product and rating information through open Web APIs so third parties can use it to create mashups.
For the past year I have been telling clients, and anyone else who will listen, that even though you may have the best web site in the world, [...]

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JackBe, a leading boutique vendor of enterprise mashup technologies recently announced a new $5 million round of funding.
Mashable.com had a good article titled “RockYou Spits in Recession’s Face, Secures $17 Million in Funding” that covers some 2008 investment in public Web based mashup companies.
I expected 2008 to be the year of the enterprise mashup. Early [...]

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I just wanted to point my readers to a recent post by Luis Derechin CEO of enterprise mashup vendor JackBe. Luis does a nice job of pulling together some of the movers and shakers in the enterprise mashup space. I think this is a valuable list for those who wish to track the evolution of [...]

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Kapow hooked me into lunch today at the AADI conference (where I am presenting for the majority of the week). They hooked me by showing me a mashup for the iPhone they had built (using their technology) that scrapes the Gartner AADI conference site to deliver a handheld based Gartner agenda management application. I’ve got [...]

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A friend, fellow techophile, and relative of mine Jeremy Cameron (founder of Simple Solutions Inc.) alerted me to Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit mashup capability. It is fantastic! Take a look but realize it might be a time sink
What does this swimsuit mashup have to do with me and my enterprise you ask? This is a [...]

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An enterprise mashup capability normally involves a library of developer provided “mashable” components (gadgets and widgets for example), that are assembled and re-assembled by other developers or end-users to rapidly deliver highly flexible applications. Mashups are about building applications that change as fast as the business situation demands.  
Using mashups end users can build their [...]

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