Mashup, a term suggested to be part of Web 2.0, means integrating services and contents from different web sites to provide your own website. A common example we can always see nowadays, is website makes use of Google Map to show where their users and businesses are located.
The web is now blooming in a very fast speed. With the introduction of Web 2.0, includes the use of AJAX, many people around the World are developing applications much easier. Quite a lot fantastic ideas in the old days become real and appear on the Web. Despite this, ONLY one group of developers still cannot do much, so people starts to collaborate.
By using Web Services and related technology, they start to exchange information in a raw XML format. Mashup then comes out. Mashup mainly are websites that retrieves the information above. Transferring XML format is brilliant since the service provider only aims to provide content. The service receiver can then fit the data to their own design. From this approach, even the end-users are viewing the same news feed, they can choose different layout from various websites according to their own preference.
An article by Sun is talking about Mashup
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/mashup_1/
ProgrammableWeb collects many Mashup website
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