[CAnet - news] User Generated Applications - Business 2.0

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 [I highly recommend a new  magazine called Business 2.0. Lots of excellent
article on the new business modalities arising from web services, SOA and
mashups.  CANARIE's UCLP which uses web services and web services workflow
to allow users to compose their one network solution is one such example of
this new user controlled business architecture. For more information on user
controlled business please see my lecture on "Management of Innovation"
http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/recent/UMA_Management_of_Innovation.ppt
Some excerpts from Om Malik's column -- BSA]

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/839202
6/index.htm?postversion=2006111409

Rolling your own applications
Thanks to a handful of startups, building your own software program will
soon be as easy as snapping together Legos, Business 2.0 columnist Om Malik
reports.

 
User-generated applications

This trend of less programming and more assembly is just starting to gather
steam, says Jeff Nolan, who recently left his gig at SAP to become chief
executive of one-year-old Teqlo, which lets people use a simple
drag-and-drop interface to weave Web services together and build tiny apps.

Some of them, such as Palo Alto-based Ning, are targeting consumers, while
others, such as Coghead, of Redwood City, Calif., and Teqlo, of nearby Santa
Clara, are going after corporate markets. Smallthought Systems, of
Vancouver, British Columbia, is focusing its Dabble DB software on users who
like to do things their own way.

Big companies are starting to think along these lines as well: BEA Systems
has introduced two products, Project Runner and Project Builder, that target
the DIY Fortune 500 crowd, and IBM is throwing its hat into the ring with
its QEDWiki project.


You could take a feed from your shipping company and mash it up with
real-time manufacturing data from your supplier, all tied to a sales report
from an eBay store - that's the kind of app Teqlo would let you build. "If
you have personalized homepages and user-generated content, then why can't
you have user-generated applications?" Nolan reasons.


But the price of hardware and bandwidth has dropped precipitously, while
Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, and other open-source products are bringing the
sanity of standards to the Web. Newer technologies such as Ajax have also
been a catalyst, making it possible to mimic a desktop experience within a
browser. Putting all these breakthroughs together, these startups are
building development environments that let the user cobble together software
packages as easily as snapping together Lego bricks.

Paul McNamara, CEO of Coghead (see "The Next Disruptors," October), says his
company is going after small workgroups that need custom apps but can't get
the IT departments in their own corporations to devote the time. He points
out that a lot of folks are well versed in writing Microsoft Excel macros
and FileMaker-based applications without knowing a lick of programming.

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