John Musser, January 1st, 2007 Comments(10)

What will be the trends, topics, etc. for mashups in 2007? “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” said physicist Niels Bohr, or maybe it was Yogi Berra, but in that spirit I’m offering up questions, not speculation, for mashups and APIs this year.

1. Who’s making money on mashups? We’ve now seen cases where APIs can deliver directly to the bottom line given that over 50% of Salesforce.com transactions come via their API and more than 47% of eBay listings get posted through their API. We have also seen that APIs can create significant mindshare such as with Google Maps and Amazon S3. But there’s still plenty of unanswered questions with regards to business models for API providers, developers and intermediaries.
2. Which mashup platform among the major players will have the most momentum? Every momentum discussion starts with Google, but don’t discount Amazon or AOL, and Microsoft has a history of coming from behind. One place to keep track of this is on our API scorecard.
3. How will widgets impact mashups? One of the big stories going into 2007 is the widgetization of the web. Many widgets are effectively mashups and there are now 10 widget APIs listed here.
4. How quickly will mashup tools, mashup platforms and enterprise mashups take off? A variety of consumer and enterprise space tools and platforms just started appearing last year and many more are expected this year. How will they do? Good enterprise coverage over on Dion Hinchcliffe’s blog and more of that coming here as well.
5.Which subject category will be the most active? Okay, I’ll go out on a limb here with a prediction: 2006 was maps, 2007 is video (or is that too easy?). As recently noted, video-related web mashups have clearly been on the rise in the second half of 2006.

And certainly more questions, ideas and trends will arise this year, maybe even starting at at Mashup Camp in two weeks…

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“1. Who’s making money on mashups? We’ve now seen cases where APIs can deliver directly to the bottom line given that over 50% of Salesforce.com transactions come via their API and more than 47% of eBay listings get posted through their API. We have

Comment by: pick!t - January 2nd, 2007 at 4:57 am
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Comment by: Top 5 Mashup Questions for 2007 « The other side of the firewall - January 2nd, 2007 at 11:14 am
And don’t forget Yahoo! — we’re looking pretty strong on your API scorecard. :)

Comment by: Chad Dickerson - January 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Good point Chad! As a matter of fact, that’s actually something that deserves its own blog post. I suspect most folks don’t realize that you guys have more open APIs than anyone else.

Comment by: John Musser - January 2nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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Comment by: Welcome to 2007 - Let’s Talk Mashups : Lance Tracey - January 2nd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
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Comment by: InternetActu.net - January 4th, 2007 at 11:40 am
[...] Pour Newsweek, 2007 sera l’année des widgets et de la personnalisation. Programmable Web s’interroge d’ailleurs sur l’impact de cette tendance en posant 5 questions sur les Mashups pour 2007, dont notamment de savoir si les widgets vont avoir un impact sur le développement des services “composites�?. [...]

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Comment by: ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » - January 4th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
looking for enterprise mashups examples

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