Jeffrey Wong and Jason Hong

Workshop on Mashups and CSCW, in ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

January 2006

The recent popularity of mashups has shown that people can recombine web services to create new and easier ways of accessing or aggregating information. However, creating mashups requires skills that are out of the reach of non-programmers. In this paper, we describe how the end-user programming approach might enable non-programmers to make mashups, discuss what obstacles must be overcome for this type of system to work, and present what we have learned from the our prototype so far.