nifty tools for our work

Here's an interesting article from ZDNet about some mashup tools that might be just what some of us are looking for to help online collaboration in this process. My husband stumbled across this on one of his listserves and passed it along, thinking we might find this useful. I am posting it here at Kim's suggestion ...
Here's a little snippet from the piece by Dion Hinchcliffe:

A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

... I’ve been been tracking many of these new or evolving mashup platforms and thought I’d compile my take of the leading players in the mashup space today, particularly given the number of new or significantly upgraded products in the last few months. To make the cut, all the products listed below had to allow live integration of functionality or content (data) over a network, provide an easy-to-use development model that is theoretically accessible by end-users, be available in at least beta form, and either consume and/or produce Web-based applications and services. Using this refined selection model, you’ll see this list looks a bit different from last year’s round-up of mashup platforms. Yet despite the removal of a few products, the list is bigger than ever with 17 products currently available that offer credible mashup assembly capabilities today...