Mashup in a B2B world ?

Mashup application are often reduced to an enhancement of Google Map with some nice (useless?) features. Recent announcements make me think that we'll see mashup in a business context sooner than expect. SalesForce.com strategy behind their AppExchange is a good example of Mashing up application together in their environment. Read the press release that announced the SalesForce for Google Adwords to understand the business impact of Mashups. Traditional Publishers are moving to the software world to enter the Client's Value chain. More and more propose work flow applications in their portfolio (Check Wolters Kluwer's Corporate and Financial Services) that need to take Mashup into account. In the same vein, Factiva announced a mashup outside the Google sphere (that's the news!). Factiva SalesWorks locates prospect on a map (oohhh again a map :-) but this time the Microsoft Virtual Earth. Thing are definitively evolving there !

Impact of social content on traditional media

Traditional journalists must find ways to access and take the writing of bloggers into account when doing their reporting, according to Reuters Asia's managing director Alex Hungate. The growing popularity of online social networks and blogs suggests bloggers have an equally valid point of view, he said in a recent interview with Business Time Asia

Basically, A survey showed up that 51% of news readers consider watching equally blogs content that newspapper.... Reuters has invested $7 million in PLUCK's blog syndication network, a strategy to automated analysis of the blogoshpère which allow them quite easilly to assess a news in the social web to leverage its importance for their own publication.