IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced IBM Mashup Center will be hosted as a free trial on the Web with which non-technical business people can use to experiment and build customized mashups following the success of early corporate adopters Boeing Corporation (NYSE: BA) and Carrefour Group (PARIS: CA).

ProgrammableWeb, the leading Web 2.0 repository for mashup applications and enabling APIs, today announced that it has integrated support for the OpenSearch protocol and completed integration testing with IBM's (NYSE: IBM) mashup maker, QEDWiki. This collaboration between ProgrammableWeb and IBM allows business users to easily explore, discover, install and publish mashup consumables such as APIs, widgets and feeds.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a preview of its new mashup platform to allow non-technical users to create situational applications in minutes, empowering line of business professionals to get the information they need no matter where it resides.