Coghead, Datamashups.com, Teqlo: How will the everyman build mashups? | November 2, 2006
by Byron Binkley
The launch and subsequent buzz around companies like Coghead, Teqlo, and Datamashups has made me think about how end users (versus developers) will build web based mashups. The continuum of mashups from simply recombining content to legitimately new applications is fairly broad, and is dependent on how much business logic there is behind the scenes recombining the services. Programmers have the luxury of using their "logic layer" of choice. For example, looking at Yahoo!’s developer network you can get started with JavaScript, Flash, .NET, PHP, Ruby, and Python. But what will end users use to combine web services? Datamashups.com provides a couple mapping screens to bind one service to another, and Coghead shows some screen shots of what looks to be a more sophisticated visual development environment.
