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Hashem Almakrami

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March 21, 2010 Innovation in assembly

According to O’Reilly “innovation in assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers, a kind of open source development”.

Basically with innovation in assembly no needs to produce the exact required platform output, just create the platform and let the users decide latter on which they want.
Innovation in assembly is also known as Enterprise mashups, which refers to a web page or application that uses content “data or functions” from more than one sources to create a new service.

The webs 2.0 are reusable technology which allow using other sources functions and data to create innovation in assembly aspect.
There are many web 2.0 applications rely on innovation in assembly to provide their services, one of them is Zillow.com application. I will take this application as my case study to explain more about the innovation in assembly.

Zillow.com is a leading online real estate marketplace to help homeowners, buyers, sellers, renters, real estate agents to make a right decision about their homes. It is one of most popular web 2.0, and social networking “mushup”. It is a great innovative service that provides residential property estimations for houses across the United States (Zestimate). It provides them with new and updated information related to their issues.

Zillow.com presentation

Zillow is working to connect its real estate information with the citizen journalism movement, pushing people who live in select neighborhoods to upload and share photos, texts, news, videos and other information. Zillow APIs is free networks and open, it allows the third party web developers to incorporate their data and add more functions and values on their domain. Zillow is helpful application, and web 2.0 technologies made it more useful and popular.

Top 10 Real Estate Web 2.0 Sites

New Zillow collaborative features

References:

O’Reilly (Sep 24 2007). Entries matching “innovation in assembly ”
From http://blogs.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi
http://www.zillow.com
http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm
http://www.zillow.com/blog/zillows-open-api/2006/07/
http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2008/08/a-salesforce-zi.html