Actually, ijonas, that is precisely one of our goals at HomePortals (http://www.homeportals.net); we wanted to build a platform that can be used by the users themselves to build "web applications" by combining different modules. For example we have modules for flickr, amazon, gmail, rss readers, etc that can all be combined via an events engine. Building a "personal homepage" is just one (and the easier) of the applications that can be built, since pretty much there is no interaction between modules; however we have other types of "applications" that can be built, and we are constantly working on extending our module list as well as the hooks and methods needed for them to interact with other modules.
The environment you describe for building those "mash-ups" is not as far as you may think.
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