TelecomI+D02: Next Generation Mashups: How to Create my Own Services in a Convergent World

Service and content mashups are becoming more and more a mainstream of the Web. Recently, several mashup platforms have introduced the user-centric paradigm, thus allowing novice end-users to easily create, share and enjoy their own services. However, these platforms still lack the advanced features that the Mobile Internet is able to support, other than just browsing on the mobile telephone. Advanced location features and the possibility of communicating from anywhere at anytime will leverage new business models thus providing end-users with amazing new services. This paper introduces a platform that merges user-centricity and Mobile Web services with a mashup environment where users can create and share their own services, describing its main features.