I attended the Mashup Summit put on by Colabria last Friday at John Maloney’s largesse. This one-day event had presentations by a variety of mashup vendors such as StrikeIron, Mashery, Kapow, Google, Nexaweb, IBM and Serus. These presentations were great, but after a while it was hard for someone like me (one of the only non-developers in the audience) to tell the difference between some of these mashup technologies. What was more useful was some of the introductory work by John on value networks and how a mashup was a type of value network. The final session run by John and Ann Majchrzak from USC was a discussion involving everyone in the room and was the most interesting session of the day. I wish they had cut back on some of the vendor presentations and started this most interesting discussion two hours earlier (right after lunch).

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