Mashups are powerful tools to enhance processes. Lets examine the process of learning or knowledge aquisition (sounds powerful, does it not?). A graduate student is expected to cast a wide net to corral information. Often it is not done because of lack of time, motivation, etc. It is reasonable to believe that you have only scratched the surface of the knowledge strata. Since there can several strata and several sites it is possible that the student does not know what he/she does not know. Fortunately we have a way out of this dilemma. Listen to the interview on NPR with Ethan Zuckerman, senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His method of tracking "personal information flow" reveals the sources one normally uses. The passive tracking of information cues (what, when, and where) are used to connect to real sources. The next step is to determine where the gaps are. If one can get his/her knowledge universe to connect to other knowledge universes then there is a possibility that you can fill your knowledge gaps. It is no different building a knowledge enabled process. Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
. They put forth a compelling argument on why 
, illustrates how difficult it can be to implement innovations, whatever be the types. A companion book to this is 
by Osterwalder and Pigneur in which they showcase several business models. All of these models rely on a common framework of nine columns.
