Mash Up Roundup
An essential skill for the tech entrepreneur is to be able to quickly produce prototypes. Sure, you can always outsource that, but if you like to dabble and coding is your idea of fun, you might want to create these prototypes yourself. While in many cases scripting languages and frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Symfony will get the job done, the following 19 tools allow an even more rapid turnaround, especially for more complex prototypes with many data sources.
- Google Mashup
- This is currently in limited beta. Not only can you create generic mashups, but Google makes it easy to create mashups with their services.
- Yahoo Pipes
- Yahoo Pipes is an interactive data aggregator and manipulator that lets you mashup your favorite online data sources.
- Microsoft Popfly
- They provide two services: 1) Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. 2) Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.
- DabbleDB
- Dabble DB lets you build database applications with no hassle.
- DataMashups
- Create mashup portals for you and your clients.
- ZohoCreator
- Online database application builder with easy form generator.
- Above All Studio
- Geared for the enterprise, it enables companies to easily integrate their on-demand applications like salesforce.com with on-premise or other on-demand systems in a way that’s non-invasive and provides rapid ROI.
- Etelos
- Etelos provides on-demand, customizable Web applications on the hosting environment that you choose.
- CogHead
- A simple (drag and drop), powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere
- WuFoo
- Forms made easy.
- Dapper
- Grab data from websites when no RSS or similar feed is available.
- Jack Builder
- JackBe’s Visual IDE provides an easy-to-use interface for GUI creation.
- Ning
- Geared towards social networking type applications.
- WebEx Connect
- Combine leading business process applications and contextual data with real-time WebEx collaborative applications, making truly innovative solutions available on demand. They have an interesting community where you can make partnerships and sell your created application.
- Bungee Labs
- The provide web service access and integration, automated web applications state management, automation of integrated multi-browser Ajax interactivity, and instant deployment and end-user delivery.
- RSS Bus
- RSSBus is a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions.
- Aprenda
- A SaaS platform with a monetization framework.
- Morfik
- WebOS AppsBuilder brings extreme simplicity to the design of sophisticated AJAX applications without compromising their functionality.
- Kapow
- Web 2.0 Mashup Server software that enables you to connect, collect, and mashup anything on the web.
What’s your favorite Mash Up tool? Personally I still use Ruby on Rails or Symfony (and in some cases pencil and pen), but I’m planning on learning a few of these tools to help speed my prototyping phase.
Elmer Thomas Jr. is Co-founder of ATL Innovations, Inc., an award winning web and software development company dedicated to bridging the digital divide, ThemBid.com, a service offering free advertising for businesses that makes finding services and products easy for consumers, and Notifir.com, a service making social news networking fun, easy and productive. You can find out more about Mr. Thomas at ElmerThomas.com.
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