Kolz Blog

As announced by the Popfly Team and widely blogged about elsewhere, Microsoft's online mashup tool has just reached Beta status and is now available for anyone to use at http://www.popfly.com. As with most Web 2.0 technologies today, Popfly can indeed be used within a SharePoint environment, which was described in a blog entry here back in May. So, if you didn't get a chance to play with Popfly during the invitation only Alpha phase, you can do so now! The SharePoint team is in the process of working with the Popfly team to create a handful of SharePoint specific blocks that can work more directly with SharePoint objects such as Picture Library, Events List, Contacts List, etc. rather than just their built-in RSS feeds. More details will be forthcoming. Also, a few customers have already told us that they would love to have a "Popfly Server" which can be installed and managed strictly within their intranet environment, so mashups of sensitive corporate information from line of business applications can remain behind their firewalls. If you have any suggestions or ideas or actual business requirements for the types of mashups that your company would create with such a server, please leave a comment here or send us e-mail. Note that this is no more than just a concept at this point, so please don't ask if or when we will release a "Popfly Server" product. <Lawrence />