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developerWorks Interviews: IBM Business Mashup Challenge winners

Four developers talk about their winning mashups, the tools, and the opportunity space

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24 Jul 2007

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Kenny Spade, Mark Madsen, Yuval Tarsi, and Renat Khasanshyn discuss mashups they created at Mashup Camp 4 in Silicon Valley and talk about QEDWiki and other mashup builders.

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Mashup Camp 4 was held 16-17 Jul at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., and IBM sponsored a business mashup challenge where attendees were invited to leverage and extend a hosted mashup assembly environment to create exciting and unique situational applications. Judges included a mixture of venture capitalists and analyst attendees and prizes were awarded. Here, the four winners talk about their creations and branch out to chat about the mashup space.

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About the guests

Kenny Spade

Kenny Spade has been developing professionally since 2002, and recently returned to school to work toward a bachelor's degree in computer science at CSU Chico. Recently, his focus has shifted from development to presentation and training, which has widened his focus to all aspects of the IT industry. He is currently the events coordinator for UPE, the computer science honors society at CSU Chico, and also serves as the Microsoft Student Partner on campus.


Mark Madsen

Mark Madsen is president of Third Nature, a consulting and technology research agency focused on business intelligence, data integration, and Web technology. He is an award-winning architect and CTO whose work has been featured in numerous industry publications. He is a principal author of Clickstream Data Warehousing and teaches classes on data warehousing and open source for TDWI. Visit ThirdNature.net for more information.


Yuval Tarsi

Co-founder and CTO for WorkLight Inc., Yuval Tarsi has broad startup experience, most recently as vice president of R&D and Israel site manager for ©Right. Previously, he served as vice president, R&D and vice president of technologies at Trivnet, a provider of e-commerce solutions. Prior to that, he served in the Israeli Intelligence Corps' prestigious Haman Talpiyot program. He holds a degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.


Renat Khasanshyn

Renat Khasanshyn is a subject-matter expert in data integration and open source business models, and is responsible for driving the vision of data integration solutions at Apatar Open Source. He is a frequent speaker at a wide rage of events. Prior to founding Apatar, he was CEO for Altoros Systems, a distributed product life-cycle management company, and earlier, vice president of engineering for PriMed, a discount insurance company in Tampa, Fla. He immigrated to the United States in 2001 from Belarus, where he studied engineering and marketing at the Belarussian State Technical University. He was recently was named finalist for the 2007 Emerging Executive of the Year Award by Mass Technology Leadership Council. Check out his blog, Naked Open Source.


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