The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at UIUC has named me one of their Graduate Scholars. I submitted a proposal titled “Mashups and Innovation: How do people create and deploy novel applications in minutes?”. The basic gist of the whole thing is to study how mash-ups can be used as a type of end-user innovation, allowing people to create customized technologies. I will be travelling to the Mashup Camp in July to check out what is going on and also to interview some mash-up developers and API providers. Then I am going to put together a workshop on Mash-ups for the CSCW Conference (I just submitted the proposal last Friday). A similar workshop will be help here on campus with more of a focus on mash-ups and the University/entrepreneur.
Stay tuned for more info.