You wanna collaborate?

If I wanted to talk collaboration, I could wax poetic about the ways users can collaborate in the world of the enterprise mashup: tagging mashed services by type or usefulness, rating source services for quality, and even leaving wiki-like comments on the finer subtleties of services they've used.

For once, I'm not gonna. Instead, I'm going to make a rare self-serving request. But before I do that, here's your warning: the following could be construed as a shameless marketing plug.

[begin marketing stuff]

As analysts and bloggers alike continue to ponder and pontificate on the value enterprise mashups, what was once buzz is fast becoming reality. To get a collective grasp on 'what is an Enterprise Mashup' from your perspective, we've created a short survey on Enterprise Mashups.

Take a minute and fill out this [very!] short survey and and you'll receive a free copy of the Survey Results Summary. Equally important, you'll be entered in a drawing to win an iPod. The survey results will help users, vendors and analysts alike understand mashups from the perspective of the collective.

Let your voice be heard!

[Now back to our regular programming.]