Mash up

I am very busy these days, doing investigations on existing mash up tools. It seems “mash up” has really become a very hot phase. Microsoft delivered a cool product “popfly”, and Yahoo pipes has worked for several months. There are several teams in IBM developing more than one mash up platform.

Mush up let’s you aggregate many data source into one page or on system. You could do some level of composition of these data source. And the layouts flexibility is also a key feature and sometimes is more attractive to customers.

However, I even don’t know how these produts could effect the process or efficiency of an enterprise. Or are they only a bundle of funny tools?