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WSO2, an Open Source SOA company, has launched a new product called Mashup Server 1.0. This new server combines the capabilities of developing “situational” mashups with the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform.

At the OpenWorld Conference today, Oracle unveiled its new line of CRM OnDemand applications.

The solutions are positioned as direct competitors to Salesforce.com's hosted enterprise offerings.

For people sick of pseudo-enterprise Web 2.0 offerings with busy functions reminiscent of Twitter and the Facebook news feed, Oracle will lend you comfort. The CRM OnDemand suite is new media but all business, with the fat and frill completely sizzled off.

MindTouch's funky-fresh Deki Wiki is back, this time with 100 new features.

What are they? Name it (Mashable valiantly tried): Google Analytics for stat-checking, Gabbly online chat, Yahoo Finance stock trackers, Flickr slide shows, Digg It badges. Looks like the mash-up stick hit the open source Deki Wiki group hard.

The service is "free for unlimited users, unlimited pages, and without limitations" (their words), but you can buy varying degrees of support for anywhere between US$ 495 and US$ 4,495.

Witness the frivolity for yourself.

Non-profit organizations that work to change policy on the local or state levels will revel in the latest news from the Sunlight Foundation.

Organizations using the open source constituent relationship management tool, CiviCRM, can now better connect their constituents and members to their elected officials, thanks to recent integration work that ties US federal data directly into CiviCRM records via the Sunlight Labs API.

Loath to ever be left out of a sandbox Yahoo! and Google have already begun to play in, last Friday Microsoft brought mash-up tool Popfly to the light of day.

Like its predecessors Yahoo! Pipes and Google's RSS API, Popfly promises to be the Web mash-up builder "for the rest of us."

Google is working on a new AJAX API that will enable the good user -- that's you -- to post feeds to your web properties with just a wee bit of simple JavaScript.

Those who've tried weathering the storm of server-side feed grabbing and caching issues and the labyrinthine depths of parsing XML know what a welcome pairing this is.

Senator Ted Stevens wasn't far from the truth when he called the internet a "series of tubes." If he'd said pipes instead, he probably would have gotten far less of a crucifixion -- that is, if it's possible for one crucifixion to be less unpleasant than another.

With content floating around in so many varied forms (blogs, wikis, news, niche information), there have got to be better ways to organize all that info we're streaming aside from the current process of choice: standard RSS feed readers and browsers. While convenient, RSS readers don't allow for much data structuring and have a limited framework for manipulation.