Niche Formation in the Mashup Ecosystem
Michael A. Weiss, Solange Sari, Nadia Noori · Technology Innovation Management Review · 2013
IntroductionMashups are situational applications that combine services provided by third parties through open APIs, as well as user-owned data sources (Matera and Weiss, 2011). A simple example of a mashup is an application that shows photos uploaded to Flickr on a map provided by Google Maps. The creation of mashups is supported by a complex ecosystem of interconnected data