The Voice Mashup Guide

For communications mashups, like the Disaster Dispatcher, one important question to answer is “How long do they take?” Now that I’ve done a few of these, and it seems like I’m doing them more and more and more…. I’m getting a sense for it. First, though, let me give the appropriate warnings and caveats: like all software, the schedules, budgets and risks rise exponentially with complexity. My mashups tend to be simple business processes with three or four different users, are integrated on existing platforms and web services, and use tool sets I’ve come to know fairly well.