Mashups Move Mainstream

IBM has been working on a Mashup system based on the Lotus notes platform. The idea is to give business people the ability to create web mashups without the need for complex API programming skills. In in sense the tool provides a lot more people the ability to mix together information sources and displays. It will be interesting to see what the display systems are beyond traditional maps, where businesses will look to add physical office locations. On a deeper note, a person could build a mashup that combines weather information with a retail management system to adjust inventories based on project weather patterns. The mashup will help drive business intelligence since it will make viewing and interpolating the data easier.