ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

IBM Mashup Center

IBM Mashup Center is like playing with Lego blocks to make cool things on your computer. You can pick different blocks, also called widgets, from your toy chest, and snap them together to make something new and exciting.

In the same way, IBM Mashup Center brings together pieces of information from different sources like websites, databases, spreadsheets or other software applications, and lets you easily combine them to create new websites, dashboards or customized applications, without needing any coding skills. It’s like a giant puzzle that you can put together, and it does all the work for you.

So, let's say you want to make a website that shows different types of weather news. You can add a weather widget to your mashup, along with widgets for news articles, maps, videos and more. You can even connect your mashup with social media sites like Twitter or Facebook to display the latest comments or feedback on your website.

With IBM Mashup Center, the possibilities are endless, and you can create anything you want by simply dragging and dropping widgets onto a page, and connecting them together. It's an easy and fun way to make something new and useful, all by yourself!