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February 08, 2007 | Comments: (0)
QEDWiki: Collaborating on Mashups
Blending two central tenets of the Web 2.0 ethos -- an emphasis on community and the development of lightweight, integrated mashup apps -- IBM has taken the wrapper off QEDWiki, which the company describes as a "browser-based assembly canvas used to create simple mashups."
Written in PHP, QEDWiki -- which stands for Quick and Easily Done -- is a Wiki framework that enables business users and developers to come together to build ad hoc mashup applications quickly and collaboratively, using widgets developed within the framework as well as those exposed elsewhere on the Web.
The technology, which is part of IBM's alphaWorks Services, includes a rich AJAX-enabled architecture, meaning that each page of the Wiki is itself a rich, interactive app. The hope is that by inviting the developer and business user community at large to participate in the early stages of QEDWiki's development, IBM will be able to improve the technology's capabilities in a manner that better aligns with what its users ultimately want.
A demo of the technology has been posted by IBM on YouTube. From the looks of it, QEDWiki appears well worth a trial run.
Posted by Jason Snyder on February 8, 2007 06:10 PM
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