Jasminko Novak, Benjamin J.J. Voigt - Mashups are web applications combining content and functionality from different online sources via publicly available interfaces (e.g. API, RSS). This allows end-users to create new websites that dynamically combine services of existing providers. The website Programmable Web lists almost 800 such applications. Still, little work has analyzed their structural properties, design dimensions and socio-technical implications. In this paper we propose and applying a specific conceptual framework for analyzing and evaluating mashups. The results of an exploratory study identify current trend and a dominant design model of sucessful mashups as well as critical aspects, limitations and chances for future development.

IBM team describes a fictitious organization that requires a customized Web site that includes, among other things, document storage, discussion groups, specialized workgroups, conference scheduling, and schedule session descriptions. They illustrate the creation of this Web site using the following open source tools: * Drupal. An open source content management system * MySQL. An open source database store * PHP. A Web-based language for supporting dynamic content * Apache. An open source Web server * Eclipse. An open source development environment * CVS"

"The Biospecimen Research Database represents a joint effort of the BRN, the RAND Corporation, and the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics, to survey and curate the existing scientific literature for research data that defines the precise relationships between biospecimen handling and the quality and reproducibility of data for cancer research." BRN=Biospecimen Research Network

This paper describes a technique for making personalized recommendations from any type of database to a user based on similarities between the interest profile of that user and those of other users. In particular, we discuss the implementation of a networked system called Ringo, which makes personalized recommendations for music albums and artists. Ringo’s database of users and artists grows dynamically as more people use the system and enter more information. Four different algorithms for making recommendations by using social information filtering were tested and compared. We present quantitative and qualitative results obtained from the use of Ringo by more than 2000 people.

Oracle announces social/collaboration package that runs on their middleware. Killer app: "Users upload their presentations to OSL, which then splits the file into individual slides. Any user can tag, rate, or annotate the individual slides. Those looking to create presentations scroll through the existing slide base via a user interface that looks a lot like Apple’s “Cover Flow”. To build a new presentation, you simply drag the slides you want into a folder, OSL does the rest. "