A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Rob Hof of BusinessWeek magazine about web mashups, and some of the hacks I've done, and that others have done. The article, Mix, Match, And Mutate, is out now, and I quite like the way he captured the current situation - excitement over the possibilities, some caveats about consequence, and a summation that points out that this is largely in the "tinkertoy" phase of growth.

I think the only issue that wasn't addressed (based on the audience of BusinessWeek) was the ramifications of opening up your data as a business move (especially for startups). I'm sure the folks at Flickr could write a book on the positive and negative aspects of opening an API as a business move.

(Did I really say "It's the Wild West all over again"? Ugh, how cliched.)

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