Tuesday, December 18, 2007

CMS Watch, 18.12.2007: Twelve Predictions for 2008

CMS Watch, 18.12.2007: Twelve Predictions for 2008
by The CMS Watch Analyst Team: "It's that time of year again. The CMS Watch analyst team ponders what to expect next year, and offers 12 predictions that we think will shape content technologies in 2008."

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Samiq Bits, 06.12.2007: Microsoft Volta as a Declarative Web Distributed Computing Toolset

Samiq Bits, 06.12.2007: Microsoft Volta as a Declarative Web Distributed Computing Toolset
by Gilbert Corrales: "Today Microsoft Live Labs announced Microsoft Volta. Volta technology preview is a developer toolset built on top of .NET to further excel the development of software services applications enabling you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns."

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 05.12.2007: Web Office: 2007 Year in Review

Read/WriteWeb, 05.12.2007: Web Office: 2007 Year in Review
by Richard MacManus: "Over the next few weeks we'll be reviewing a number of Web product categories on Read/WriteWeb, summarizing what's happened in 2007 - and what to look forward to in 2008."

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks, 05.12.2007: Review of Day One of Enterprise 2.0 conference – Sydney 3 December

Trends in the Living Networks, 05.12.2007: Review of Day One of Enterprise 2.0 conference – Sydney 3 December
by Ross Dawson: "A quick review of Day One of IIR's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Steve Hodgkinson of Ovum addressed the question, 'Does Your Organisation Need Enterprise 2.0?'. Nigel Watson of Microsoft described the history of blogging at Microsoft. Ben Naftzger of Atlassian made a good case that wikis are the best thing ever to happen for organizations."

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Global Neighbourhoods, 02.12.2007: SAP Research Report

Global Neighbourhoods, 02.12.2007: SAP Research Report
by Shel Israel: "This is Part 2 of--I don't know how many parts of the--SAP Global Survey Report on Culture, Business and Social Media. This summarizes the key points of what I learned while working on this report."

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 03.12.2007:2008 Will Be The Year of Business Networking

Read/WriteWeb, 03.12.2007:2008 Will Be The Year of Business Networking
by Bernard Lunn: "In this post we will give you three reasons for that prediction, plus six specific predictions and one interesting dark horse."

Monday, December 03, 2007

Sunday, December 02, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 01.12.2007: Why the Future of Corporate Computing is ‘Informal’ : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

The FASTForward Blog, 01.12.2007: Why the Future of Corporate Computing is ‘Informal’ : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
by Joe McKendrick: "Social networking applications will be part of the informal organization (collaborative and non-hierarchical), versus the way software has traditionally been applied within the formal organization (very hierarchical, procedure oriented, highly political)."

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End
by Richard MacManus: "A new Forrester report by Erica Driver and Ron Rogowski suggests that rich Internet applications (RIAs) may usurp Microsoft Office and enterprise portals as the front-end UIs for 'decision-makers and task-oriented workers'. The phrase Forrester uses for this front end is 'Information Workplaces (IWs)'."

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Seeking Alpha, 19.11.2007: IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT

Seeking Alpha, 19.11.2007: IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT
by Dana Gardner: "And so it is today, with IBM's (IBM) announcement of Blue Cloud -- an approach that not only talks the services talk, but walks the services walk. We are all at the tipping point where IT will be delivered of, by and for services."

Monday, November 26, 2007

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
by Dan Farber: "Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now he wants to squish Microsoft Office with a new suite and complementary collaborative component, Live Documents."

Friday, November 23, 2007

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
by Ashling O’Connor: "The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop busines with Live Documents."

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

CNET Blogs The Open Road, 19.11.2007: Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices

CNET Blogs The Open Road, 19.11.2007: Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices
by Matt Asay: "Gartner has issued a research note that finds that proprietary software is facing serious pricing pressure from a range of different software trends, among them Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source."

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 19.11.2007: What’s driving adoption of rich Internet applications?

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 19.11.2007: What’s driving adoption of rich Internet applications?
by Ryan Stewart: "The bulk of the excitement comes because [with RIAs] we’re basically talking about the next generation of web applications."

Friday, November 16, 2007

BusinessWeek, 15.11.2007: Social Networking with the Elite

BusinessWeek, 15.11.2007: Social Networking with the Elite
by Douglas MacMillan: "Tired of the Web masses? Now you can find your own gated communities on the Net—if they'll let you in"

Thursday, November 15, 2007

HBS Faculty Blogs, 03.11.2007: How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye

HBS Faculty Blogs, 03.11.2007: How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye
by Andrew McAfee: "The bullseye figure below is an extremely simple and not-to-scale representation of the relative size of these groups, from the perspective of our focal knowledge worker. The small core of people with whom she has strong ties is at the center, surrounded by her larger group of weakly-tied colleagues."

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

New York Times Blog Bits - Technology, 13.11.2007: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network

New York Times Blog Bits - Technology, 13.11.2007: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
by Saul Hansell: "Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks."

Monday, November 12, 2007

GigaOM, 09.11.2007: Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up

GigaOM, 09.11.2007: Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up
by Anne Zelenka: "What’s the reason for the new sobriety? Maybe the credit crunch has spooked people. Even though Web 2.0 startups require very little capital, and thus aren’t directly affected by gyrations in the interbank lending market, the space could be hit hard by contractions in online advertising."

Friday, November 09, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out
by Phil Wainewright: "Software as a service is much more than the packaging option ... While Cisco is focusing on a platform that offers a framework for collaboration, Adobe is creating its own portfolio of applications to enable online collaboration."

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Monday, November 05, 2007

Official Google Blog, 05.11.2007: Where's my Gphone?

Official Google Blog, 05.11.2007: Where's my Gphone?
by Andy Rubin: " Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance"

Friday, November 02, 2007

Adopting Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the Enterprise, 01.11.2007: Best Practices: Establishing Enterprise Architecture Teams

Adopting Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the Enterprise, 01.11.2007: Best Practices: Establishing Enterprise Architecture Teams
by Yogish Pai: "In one of my previous post I had published the first draft of the presentation on Establishing the Enterprise Architecture team. Based on some feedback and my own experience, I have now updated it with the following additional details:"

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

GigaOM, 06.10.2007: From The Information Age To The Connected Age

GigaOM, 06.10.2007: From The Information Age To The Connected Age
by Anne Zelenka: "how the web enables us to move from one era into another, from the Information Age to the Connected Age. You can see this shift both in the practices of individual workers and in the strategies of technology companies."

Monday, October 29, 2007

Friday, October 26, 2007

Mozilla Labs Blog, 25.10.2007: Prism

Mozilla Labs Blog, 25.10.2007: Prism
by LabRats: "Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur."

Thursday, October 25, 2007

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 22.10.2007: The state of Enterprise 2.0

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 22.10.2007: The state of Enterprise 2.0
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "The increasing pervasiveness of the tools and awareness of Enterprise 2.0 will continue to have a growing impact on our businesses for better and worse."

Friday, October 19, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 15.10.2007 McAfee: Enterprise 2.0 a ‘Game Changer’

The FASTForward Blog, 15.10.2007 McAfee: Enterprise 2.0 a ‘Game Changer’
by Joe McKendrick: "At a recent event sponsored by Oracle, Harvard’s Andrew McAfee evangelized the Enterprise 2.0 message, predicting that it would turn the technology paradigm upside down within many organizations."

Thursday, October 04, 2007

HBS Blog, 1.10.2007: The Ties that Find

HBS Blog, 1.10.2007: The Ties that Find
by Andrew McAfee: "the value of weak ties, as part of a business case for enterprise 2.0. All of these activities, especially the latter two, seem like they’d be highly valuable within a company, especially a large and/or geographically distributed one where you can’t access all colleagues just by bumping into them in the hallway. "

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 3.10.2007: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 3.10.2007: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS
by Phil Wainewright: "The challenge: transition from a business model where you earn revenues by selling perpetual software licenses to one based on monthly subscription payments. Not only that, but achieve the transition while continuing to report rising revenues and protecting your profitability. Can it be done?"

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 1.10.2007: CIO-led Collaborative Innovation through Enterprise 2.0 at IBM: A Useful Model

The FASTForward Blog, 1.10.2007: CIO-led Collaborative Innovation through Enterprise 2.0 at IBM: A Useful Model
by Bill Ives: "There is a useful recent article in the IBM Systems Journal, A model for CIO-led innovation, that looks at how an organization can implement the principles of enterprise 2.0 to involve more employees in the innovation process."

Friday, September 28, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 26.09.2007: Emergent Business Networks - The Real Enterprise 2.0 Story

Read/WriteWeb, 26.09.2007: Emergent Business Networks - The Real Enterprise 2.0 Story
by Bernard Lunn: "This is an “emergent” business network, because there is no centrally defined structure. The structure emerges from lots of little interactions that are designed to solve specific problems."

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 25.09.2007: A New Twist on Enterprise 2.0 – aka Using Extranet 2.0 to Collect the Wisdom of Customer Crowds

The FASTForward Blog, 25.09.2007: A New Twist on Enterprise 2.0 – aka Using Extranet 2.0 to Collect the Wisdom of Customer Crowds
by Bill Ives: "Working in what might be called Extranet 2.0, Communispace builds, manages, and facilitates private, online customer communities allowing for ongoing customer conversations. It is a three way dialog with the company, the customers, and the Communispace facilitators."

Monday, September 24, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 20.09.2007: Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?

Read/WriteWeb, 20.09.2007: Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?
by Richard MacManus: "This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M. But why did Yahoo buy a Web Office collaboration suite?"

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Rough Type - Nicholas Carr's Blog, 21.09.2007: The week that Big Software shattered

Rough Type - Nicholas Carr's Blog, 21.09.2007: The week that Big Software shattered
by Nicholas Carr: "For the foreseeable future - five to ten years, anyway - competition in the market will no longer be between vendors selling similar products; it will be between vendors selling fundamentally different approaches to business automation."

Thursday, September 20, 2007

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 19.09.2007: SAP rolls out SAP Business ByDesign

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 19.09.2007: SAP rolls out SAP Business ByDesign
by Larry Dignan: "SAP rolled out SAP Business ByDesign, the software formerly known as A1S, Wednesday. The on-demand application targets the midmarket."
First thougts about SAP's new offering by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright and an analysis by Zoli Erdos

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Joel on Software, 18.09.2007: Strategy Letter VI

Joel on Software, 18.09.2007: Strategy Letter VI
by Joel Spolsky: "interesting analysis about the development of web-applications, their APIs and a strategic threat for Google."

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Andrew McAfee, 16.09.2007: Input by Many, Decisions by ????

Andrew McAfee, 16.09.2007: Input by Many, Decisions by ????"
by Andrew McAfee: "Separating the information from the decision: Andrew McAfee has a pair of interesting articles on decision making in the world of cheap and fast information transfer."

Monday, September 17, 2007

blog.pmarca.com, 16.09.2007: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet

blog.pmarca.com, 16.09.2007: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
by Marc Andreessen: "This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of 'Internet platform' in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go."

Sunday, September 16, 2007

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect, 12.09.2007: BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect, 12.09.2007: BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop
by Dana Gardner: "BEA Systems Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. are teaming up to give enterprise customers a design environment for rich Internet application (RIA) development. The two companies announced Tuesday that BEA will bundle Adobe’s Flex Builder 2 software with BEA Workshop Studio."

Friday, September 14, 2007

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 12.09.2007: Web Strategy (Advanced): Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the entire Product Lifecycle

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 12.09.2007: Web Strategy (Advanced): Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the entire Product Lifecycle
by Jeremiah Owyang: "he walks through how to use tools such as social networks and blogs to connect with product customers as you are designing a product, launching a product and through the rest of its life."

Thursday, September 13, 2007

internetnews.com Enterprise, 07.09.2007: Wrestling With Web 2.0 In The Enterprise

internetnews.com Enterprise, 07.09.2007: Wrestling With Web 2.0 In The Enterprise
by David Needle: "What is Web 2.0's place in the enterprise? Attendees took on the question from multiple angles at the Office 2.0 conference here."

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

TechCruch, 11.09.2007: The Holy Grail For Mobile Social Networks

TechCruch, 11.09.2007: The Holy Grail For Mobile Social Networks
by Michael Arrington: "physical presence detection and information exchange with other users. This is the Holy Grail of mobile social networking, and one of the main reasons for taking the networks off the desktop/laptop environment in the first place."

Mobile-review.com, 06.09.2007: iPhone as a part of Apple’s strategy. The future of Apple, Inc.

Mobile-review.com, 06.09.2007: iPhone as a part of Apple’s strategy. The future of Apple, Inc.
by Eldar Murtazin: "What we are really going to talk about here is Apple Inc. as a company, its strategy, aiming at establishing new segments. Also, we will touch on the struggle, albeit indirect, with the current leaders of the market in some fields."

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Monday, September 10, 2007

ReadWrite Web, 09.09.2007: Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase

ReadWrite Web, 09.09.2007: Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase
by Richard MacManus: "UK newspaper The Guardian is reporting that Google has partnered with major IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini, to sell Google Apps to enterprises."

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Friday, September 07, 2007

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.09.2007: ColdFusion and AIR and the Adobe Platform

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.09.2007: ColdFusion and AIR and the Adobe Platform
by Ryan Stewart: "But I want to see it grow and Terry Ryan has a thought provoking post about ColdFusion and Adobe AIR which is worth a read."

CXOtoday.com, 03.09.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Enabling Corporate Collaboration

CXOtoday.com, 03.09.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Enabling Corporate Collaboration
by CXOtoday Staff: "It's about Rich Internet Architectures (RIAs) for using the Web in a participatory manner where users are an integral part of the Web. Although Web2.0 is more about the consumer space, yet it claims to hold some value for enterprises. "

ReadWrite Web, 03.09.2007: B2B Opportunities for Web 2.0 Startups

ReadWrite Web, 03.09.2007: B2B Opportunities for Web 2.0 Startups
by Bernard Lunn: "As we enter the 'digestion phase' of Web 2.0, many startups may want to re-focus their efforts on B2B markets."

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Business 2.0 Magazine, 30.08.2007: Job interview brainteasers

Business 2.0 Magazine, 30.08.2007: Job interview brainteasers
by Michael Kaplan: "Google, Microsoft, and eBay are looking for engineers who can think on their feet. Here's how they find them."

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 27.08.2007: Business intelligence: The next frontier

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 27.08.2007: Business intelligence: The next frontier
by Larry Dignan: "Business intelligence is arguably the most important enterprise application in your company. But questions abound: How can you get more workers using it? What are the new frontiers? And how simple can you make it?"

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

HiveTalk, 02.08.2007: How to hold meetings on a wiki

HiveTalk, 02.08.2007: How to hold meetings on a wiki
About: "We decided to try holding the meeting on our wiki, and found that the results were better than in a traditional meeting. Here’s what we learned:"

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect, 29.08.2007: SaaS now ready to succeed where ASPs failed - especially for smaller businesses

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect, 29.08.2007: SaaS now ready to succeed where ASPs failed - especially for smaller businesses
by Dana Gardner: "Also attracted to the SaaS market are those vendors creating the means to produce and deliver such services well and efficiently."

Friday, August 31, 2007

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.09.2007: A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.09.2007: A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "More than one large company has discovered that external customer communities provide better support to their own customers."

Linux News, 26.08.2007: Enterprise: Web 2.0's Place in the Enterprise

Linux News, 26.08.2007: Enterprise: Web 2.0's Place in the Enterprise
by Irwin Lazar: "The recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston served as a coming-out party, if you will, for all things Web 2.0. For many attendees, however, as well as those who followed the event on the countless blogs covering the conference, the term Web 2.0 has created as much confusion as hype."

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

a shel of my former self, 25.08.2007: KPMG misses an opportunity

a shel of my former self, 25.08.2007: KPMG misses an opportunity
by Shel Holtz: "KPMG isn’t the first big services firm to recognize the value social media brings to business, but when a company of KPMG’s stature steps up and says, “This is important,” it’s a big deal."

CIO Insight, 23.08.2007: CIOs Want Their Web 2.0 Applications

CIO Insight, 23.08.2007: CIOs Want Their Web 2.0 Applications
by Allan E. Alter: "We asked CIOs who participated in this month's Emerging Technologies Survey to tell us which Web 2.0 applications they use personally."

Friday, August 24, 2007

InfoWorld Special Report, 20.08.2007: The next big things in IT

InfoWorld Special Report, 20.08.2007: The next big things in IT
About: "In the following 15 essays, InfoWorld’s bloggers and columnists are looking near-term, reading their tea leaves to identify “the next big thing” in disciplines from app dev to virtualization."

ThreeDimensionalPeople, 12.08.2007: Enterprise2.0 - what does it mean for mobile?

ThreeDimensionalPeople, 12.08.2007: Enterprise2.0 - what does it mean for mobile?
by Stephen Johnston: "In the past few weeks I’ve been having a number of interesting conversations about “Enterprise2.0”, what it means for mobility in general and for Nokia in particular."

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Future of Software, 17.08.2007: Service Providers 2.0: It’s All About Scale

The Future of Software, 17.08.2007: Service Providers 2.0: It’s All About Scale: "SaaS and Web 2.0 companies demonstrate every day that there’s real money to be made providing a myriad of services over the Internet, and if history is any indication, the service providers are taking notice."

O'Reilly radar, 17.08.2007: Predicting the Next Decade of Enterprise Software

O'Reilly radar, 17.08.2007: Predicting the Next Decade of Enterprise Software
by Tim O'Reilly: "Enterprise software consultancy Sandhill.com just published the results of an interesting survey entitled Predicting the Next Software Decade. This is info-porn rather than statistically significant, but the results are still very interesting."

Friday, August 17, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.08.2007: SaaS invades enterprise software markets

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.08.2007: SaaS invades enterprise software markets
by Phil Wainewright: "New research from Gartner sees SaaS taking a growing slice of the enterprise software market, rising from $4.2 billion last year to $11.5 billion in 2011. That’s an average annual growth rate of around 22.3%."

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Business Edge News Magazine, 10.08.2007: Company bloggers can help put out fires

Business Edge News Magazine, 10.08.2007: Company bloggers can help put out fires
by Ian Harvey: "The blog became Dell's prime tool to communicate what it was doing, how it would handle recalls and what it knew about the problems almost as soon as the executive team managing the issue itself knew."

The FASTForward Blog, 08.08.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.

The FASTForward Blog, 08.08.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.
by Bill Ives: "In a recent post, I provided an overview of Awareness, an enterprise 2.0 platform for managing social media, formerly known as iUpload. Here some of the ways it is being used."

Monday, August 13, 2007

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 04.08.2007: Web Strategy Ownership: Enterprise 2.0 driven by Business or IT?

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 04.08.2007: Web Strategy Ownership: Enterprise 2.0 driven by Business or IT?
by Jeremiah Owyang: "It’s often thought that IT should be driving the strategy, but I’ve seen too many projects run by IT where the technology is selected in order to appease the systems requirements but not those of the business."

The FASTForward Blog, 03.08.2007: How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules

The FASTForward Blog, 03.08.2007: How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules
by Jerry Bowles: "Susan Scrupski and Nick Vitalardi had a conversation earlier this week about blogs, wikis and the rapid adoption of social media in enterprises during which Susan came up with the best list I’ve seen so far of how to be a successful blogger."

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Ryan Stewart, 01.08.2007: Next Generation RIAs and the $700 Million Flash Aquisition

Ryan Stewart, 01.08.2007: Next Generation RIAs and the $700 Million Flash Aquisition
by Ryan Stewart: "I hadn't realized that Club Penguin, the massive multiplayer online game that was acquired today by Disney, was done almost entirely in Flash. Club Penguin is targeted at the 6-14 year old demographic and it seems to be very well done."

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, 26.07.2007: How to Choose an RIA Path: AJAX or Adobe?

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, 26.07.2007: How to Choose an RIA Path: AJAX or Adobe?
by Jeffrey Hammond: "AJAX is the best bet for experienced Web development shops looking to incrementally evolve existing Web applications"

Saturday, August 04, 2007

CIO.com, 01.08.2007: Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS

CIO.com, 01.08.2007: Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS
by Jacqueline Emigh: "The advent of Vista and Mac OS X, along with the ascension of Linux, add new dimensions to a long-time controversy. Now more than ever before, the Mac OS is the most cost effective operating system of all."

Thursday, August 02, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 31.07.2007: ROI, ROI, ROI

The FASTForward Blog, 31.07.2007: ROI, ROI, ROI
by Joe McKendrick: "The problem with Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, of course, is that the benefits delivered are “soft” benefits; there are few examples of hard numbers to show ROI."

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 29.07.2007: IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise

Read/WriteWeb, 29.07.2007: IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise
by Richard MacManus: "A new Forrester report states that Instant Messenging (IM) is by far the most valuable 'web 2.0' tool for enterprises"

New York Times, 29.07.2007: A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope

New York Times, 29.07.2007: A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope
by Jason Pontin: "Kevin Rose, the co-founder and chief architect of Digg, a hugely popular news site, announced in late June the introduction of Pownce, a social-networking service that combines messaging with file-sharing. Mr. Rose immediately endowed his latest venture with some mystique by declaring that, for the time being, only those with invitations would be permitted to test his new site."

Monday, July 30, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 29.07.2007: Enterprise 2.0… It Just Feels Right

The FASTForward Blog, 29.07.2007: Enterprise 2.0… It Just Feels Right
by Joe McKendrick: "But perhaps the benefits of E/W 2.0 need not be so overstated and complicated. To put it simply, it helps people work together more comfortably."

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Friday, July 27, 2007

New York Times, 27.07.2007: Microsoft Offers a Web-Based Strategy

New York Times, 27.07.2007: Microsoft Offers a Web-Based Strategy
by John Markoff: "Microsoft executives said Thursday that they intended to respond to the growing threat to its software posed by rivals like Google that offer Web-based versions of its applications."

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Intranet Benchmarking Forum, 23.07.2007: Intranet Strategy ; the intranet manager's challenge

Intranet Benchmarking Forum, 23.07.2007: Intranet Strategy ; the intranet manager's challenge
by Helen Day: "As part of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum's research programme they have just published a detailed research report for it's members on the challenges of managing intranet strategy and governance, written by me and John Baptista."

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

SocialComputingMagazine.com, 17.05.2007: What Form Is Enterprise Social Software Taking?

SocialComputingMagazine.com, 17.05.2007: What Form Is Enterprise Social Software Taking?
by Lee Bryant: "But this time around, we don't need Gartner to tell us what is obvious: the adoption of social software / Web 2.0 ideas by large organizations has begun, and it is going to be a game-changing development."

Monday, July 23, 2007

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 23.07.2007: A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 23.07.2007: A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "And for now, as evidenced recently in the McKinsey Web 2.0 in business survey where 21% of organizations globally said they are using or planning to use mashups, there appears to be considerable demand for mashups at the enterprise level even though the majority of existing offerings are primarily aimed at the consumer space. Is this disconnect resolving with the current crop of offerings?"

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 14.07.2007: Web Strategy: “Rewarding” your Social Network

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 14.07.2007: Web Strategy: “Rewarding” your Social Network
by Jeremiah Owyang: "This Web 2.0 or Social Media movement isn’t about technology. RIA, AJAX, XML, RSS, APIs aren’t important. Why? Those are just tools that lead us to what’s really important = people connecting to people."

Friday, July 20, 2007

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 19.07.2007: Cases 2.0 Launched

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 19.07.2007: Cases 2.0 Launched
by Ross Mayfield: "During his keynote at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, HBS Professor Andrew McAfee put out a call to create a community for sharing case studies on Enterprise 2.0. After some sharing and prototyping in private, www.cases2.com launched today on a Socialtext wiki."

Thursday, July 19, 2007

eweek.com, 15.07.2007: The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0

eweek.com, 15.07.2007: The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0
by Darryl K. Taft: "Cahoon's example illustrates the growing trend of merging Web 2.0 technologies with SOA (service-oriented architecture) to address issues normally handled through PC-based software, resulting in faster, cheaper and more flexible solutions."

Monday, July 16, 2007

IBM Project Zero: Home

IBM Project Zero: Home
About: "Project Zero is an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications. Project Zero introduces a simple environment for creating, assembling and executing applications based on popular Web technologies. The Project Zero environment includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups and rich Web interfaces."

Monday, June 25, 2007

mashable.com, 24.06.2007: Plaxo 3.0 Launches - “The Ultimate Mashup”

mashable.com, 24.06.2007: Plaxo 3.0 Launches - “The Ultimate Mashup”
by Kristen Nicole: "Plaxo, the online contact manager, has launched its Plaxo 3.0 release today, bringing in a lot more sync and sharing functionality."

Friday, June 22, 2007

Slate Magazine, 20.06.2007: Apple suck-up watch: Watching the press froth over a new cell phone.

Slate Magazine, 20.06.2007: Apple suck-up watch: Watching the press froth over a new cell phone.
by Jack Shafer: "It's not just a new kind of cell phone, it's a cultural watershed!"
Remarks from the Fray: "The media loves Apple because they are the only innovative consumer electronics company in the country." Read the comment!

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Micro Persuasion, 19.06.2007: Content That Finds You (Part I)

Micro Persuasion, 19.06.2007: Content That Finds You (Part I)
by Steve Rubel: "This is the first of two posts on the subject. The first covers the four underlying pillars of content that finds you. The second will cover the impact of this major change in how we interact with media and the impact on marketing."

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Wired Blogs Compiler, 04.06.2007: Firefox 3 Feature Preview

Wired Blogs Compiler, 04.06.2007: Firefox 3 Feature Preview
by Scott Gilbertson: "Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday, bringing with it the first look at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick."

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

O'Reilly Radar, 28.05.2007: Beyond the Browser

O'Reilly Radar, 28.05.2007: Beyond the Browser
by Allison Randal: "The wave of the future is not web browser applications. Instead we're coming full circle back to desktop applications, but this time we've broken the old idea of single user silo applications with no connection to the outside world. The wave of the future is lightweight desktop applications with the same massively networked, Web 2.0 behavior we've come to expect from browser applications."

Thursday, May 24, 2007

CNET News.com, 23.05.2007: Promising antispam technique gets nod

CNET News.com, 23.05.2007: Promising antispam technique gets nod
by Declan McCullagh: "A key Internet standards body gives preliminary approval to a powerful technology (DomainKeys) designed to detect and block fake e-email messages."

Thursday, May 17, 2007

searchengineland.com, 16.05.2007: Google 2.0: Google Universal Search

searchengineland.com, 16.05.2007: Google 2.0: Google Universal Search
by Danny Sullivan: "Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages."

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Ryan Stewart, 15.05.2007: Cairo Mozilla’s "Answer" to Flash?

Ryan Stewart, 15.05.2007: Cairo Mozilla’s "Answer" to Flash?
by Jeremy: "Mozilla is actually using Cairo as their new graphic composition engine. Cairo is going to allow them to have smoother font rendering, better image scaling (and page scaling), improved svg support and the ability to support more of the CSS3 specs."

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

TechCrunch, 01.05.2007: Why Silverlight Is Important

Why Silverlight Is Important
by Michael Arrington: "The announcements around Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform yesterday were important to anyone who is thinking about where the web will evolve."

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Read/Write Web, 18.04.2007: Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform

Read/Write Web, 18.04.2007: Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform
by Richard MacManus: "Yesterday in the Web 2.0 Expo booths, I checked out Bungee Labs - an ambitious new on-demand, web-based development environment that enables developers to build and deploy web apps that utilize the large variety of APIs and web services out on the Internet."

Ajaxian, 18.04.2007: Google announces new AJAX Feed API

Ajaxian, 18.04.2007: Google announces new AJAX Feed API
by Dion Almaer: "The Google AJAX API team has announced a genuinely useful Feed API that gives an Ajax developer the ability to access feeds, cached in the fast Google edge cache where appropriate, from across the web using a simple JavaScript API."

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 18.04.2007: “WPF/E” becomes Silverlight, struts its video side

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 18.04.2007: “WPF/E” becomes Silverlight, struts its video side
by Ryan Stewart: "At the NAB conference this morning, Microsoft is giving us a first glimpse at Silverlight, the artist formerly known as 'WPF/E'. Because the announcement comes from the NAB conference, but also because it's one of Silverlights major strong points, Microsoft is talking a lot about video."

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone, 06.04.2007: Coop for Firefox imagines browser-based social networking

Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone, 06.04.2007: Coop for Firefox imagines browser-based social networking
by Peter Butler: "Earlier this week, Mozilla Labs made news with its announcement of a social networking add-on called The Coop. According to the official post on the Mozilla Labs blog, The Coop is "a Mozilla Labs project to experiment with adding social tools to the Web browser." For those of us who know about Flock (download for Windows)--a Firefox-based browser with added "Web 2.0" features--that sounds like a very familiar concept. So what does it all mean for the future of Firefox and Flock?"

Monday, March 05, 2007

Business Week, 01.03.2007: What to Do with Apple's Cash

Business Week, 01.03.2007: What to Do with Apple's Cash
by Arik Hesseldahl: "Launching a venture capital fund would allow Apple to fund its vision for the future without making awkward acquisitions"

A VC, 03.03.2007: All Software Should Be Social

A VC, 03.03.2007: All Software Should Be Social
by Fred Wilson: "Since reading that, I can barely use software that doesn't have other people in it. I want profiles and faces and connections. I want to see what others are doing with the software. I want to connect and be connected."

The Content Economy, 01.03.2007: Web 2.0 And The Content Management Problem

The Content Economy, 01.03.2007: Web 2.0 And The Content Management Problem
by Oscar Berg: "Web 2.0 applications such as wikis and blogs encourage freeform and open communication and thereby facilitate information and knowledge exchange. But, they will also lead to an organic growth of content with an – more or less - ad hoc organization."

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 03.03.2007: Enterprise Infrastructure Industry to up Business Offering, giving CIOs more Sleep

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 03.03.2007: Enterprise Infrastructure Industry to up Business Offering, giving CIOs more Sleep
by Jeremiah Owyang: "Just last week, I was present and documented how the emerging Web industry is being sought after by Enterprise IT companies, now this latest ploy is starting to flip over as Social Media features integrate into existing enterprise environments."

Friday, March 02, 2007

Read/Write Web, 01.03.2007: Morfik's Ajax Platform Set To Challenge Google, Adobe, Microsoft

Read/Write Web, 01.03.2007: Morfik's Ajax Platform Set To Challenge Google, Adobe, Microsoft
by Richard MacManus: "Morfik, has mostly been flying under the radar for the past year, but their 100% Ajax platform is getting set for its 1.0 release at the end of March. I caught up with the team recently to see what they've got under the hood...."

Techbuzz, 28.02.2007: OfficeZilla – Centralized Project Management Solution

Techbuzz, 28.02.2007: OfficeZilla – Centralized Project Management Solution
by Thilak: "OfficeZilla is a robust web-based solution for such centralized collaborative needs. In simpler words, OfficeZilla is like having a virtual intranet for your organization for free."

Read/Write Web, 28.02.2006: Adobe Engage - How Will Apollo Impact Mainstream Users?

Read/Write Web, 28.02.2006: Adobe Engage - How Will Apollo Impact Mainstream Users?
by Jay Fortner: "After attending Adobe’s Engage event, where Adobe peeled the covers off Apollo, I began to wonder how compelling this offering is for the mainstream user; and what is the most likely diffusion scenario (i.e. how it will be accepted by the market)."

Techcrunch, 28.02.2007: Best Apollo Demos

Techcrunch, 28.02.2007: Best Apollo Demos
by Ryan Stewart: "There were a bunch of product demos today at Adobe’s Engage event, but there were a few that stood out and should have a big impact on the startup world. They also happened to be some of the best demos of the day."

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Mashable, 27.02.2007: Brightcove Launching AfterMix - Pulls Ahead of YouTube?

Mashable, 27.02.2007: Brightcove Launching AfterMix - Pulls Ahead of YouTube?
by Pete Cashmore: "The video platform Brightcove is trying to make moves into YouTube’s consumer-facing territory: as part of that venture, they’re expected to launch Aftermix (closed beta coming in a few weeks), a tool that lets users borrow professional video clips and incorporate them into into their own productions."

James Governor’s Monkchips, 28.02.2007: Brightcove: Towards a Media We-Distribution model?

James Governor’s Monkchips, 28.02.2007: Brightcove: Towards a Media We-Distribution model?
by James Governor: "Jeremy Allaire is one of the true visionaries of rich internet apps- one of the founders of Macromedia he is now CEO of Brightcove. A few years ago, he says, he figured video would become as ubiqitous as text…which is why he founded Brightcove. "

Techcrunch, 27.02.2007: Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage

Techcrunch, 27.02.2007: Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage
by Ryan Stewart: "Adobe has focused on cross platform web based experiences, but with Apollo they’re hoping to move into richer desktop experiences as well as richer mobile integration."

Business 2.0, 27.02.2007: With Wikia, a Wikipedia founder looks to strike it rich

Business 2.0, 27.02.2007: With Wikia, a Wikipedia founder looks to strike it rich
by Tom McNichol: "Jimmy Wales built Wikipedia into one of the largest and most collaborative sites on the Internet - but has yet to make his fortune. Here's how he plans to fix that."

Open Gardens, 19.02.2007: The Long tail and Mobile Web 2.0 applications

Open Gardens, 19.02.2007: The Long tail and Mobile Web 2.0 applications
by Ajit Jaokar: "this document outlines a class of applications which do not necessarily need access to device APIs – i.e. what is referred to here as the ‘Long tail’ applications."

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 26.02.2007: Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA?

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 26.02.2007: Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA?
by Joe McKendrick: "Event driven architecture (EDA) may change the face of service-oriented architecture — and all of IT for that matter — as we know it."

GigaOM, 26.02.2007: Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom

GigaOM, 26.02.2007: Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom
by Om Malik: "The company has taken its wide array of offerings – video aggregation, photo albums, weblogs, forums, sausages and sauerkraut – and has come up with what amounts to a 15-minute Social Network."

Business 2.0, 27.02.2007: With Wikia, a Wikipedia founder looks to strike it rich

Business 2.0, 27.02.2007: With Wikia, a Wikipedia founder looks to strike it rich
by Tom McNichol: "Jimmy Wales built Wikipedia into one of the largest and most collaborative sites on the Internet - but has yet to make his fortune. Here's how he plans to fix that."

O'Reilly Radar, 27.02.2007: Creating Engaging User Experiences

O'Reilly Radar, 27.02.2007: Creating Engaging User Experiences
by Tim O'Reilly: "Adobe's holding a special product preview summit today called Engage, focused on Adobe's new tools for creating engaging user experiences. I love Adobe's framing of 'engaging user experiences' as a touchstone for the web going forward."

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Read/Write Web, 26.02.2007: Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE)

Read/Write Web, 26.02.2007: Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE)
by Sramana Mitra: "In the same vein, that I have proposed a framework for Web 3.0 = (4C P VS), I would like to discuss in this piece, a framework for Enterprise 3.0."

Monday, February 26, 2007

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 25.02.2007: Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 25.02.2007: Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "it's believed that letting users innovate with your online offerings by letting embedding them in their own Web sites, blogs, and applications can greatly broaden distribution and reach, leverage rapid viral propagation over the Internet, and fully exploit the raw creativity that theoretically lies in great quantities on the edge of our networks."

Sunday, February 25, 2007

AppleInsider, 23.02.2007: 3G iPhone could arrive overseas by early 2008

AppleInsider, 23.02.2007: 3G iPhone could arrive overseas by early 2008
by Aidan Malley: "Even though its vanguard cellphone isn't yet out the door, Apple is allegedly preparing a quick follow-up model with 3G wireless installed."

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Economist.com, Wireless internet, 22.02.2007: WhyMax?

Economist.com, Wireless internet, 22.02.2007: WhyMax?
from The Economist print edition: "A much-hyped wireless technology is about to be put to the test"

Friday, February 23, 2007

Business 2.0, 21.02.2007: Next Net: 25 startups to watch

Business 2.0, 21.02.2007: Next Net: 25 startups to watch
by Business 2.0 staff: "Business 2.0 Magazine's guide to the hottest Web 2.0 companies - and the powerful trends driving them - in this make-or-break year."

Thursday, February 22, 2007

TechCrunch, 21.02.2007: It’s G-Day: Google Launches Apps Premier

TechCrunch, 21.02.2007: It’s G-Day: Google Launches Apps Premier
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "The day that everyone knew was coming has arrived with the announcement that Google has launched Google Apps Premier, its subscription package of premium, hosted business applications in direct competition with Microsoft."

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Read/Write Web, 14.02.2007: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)

Web 3.0 = (4C P VS)
by Sramana Mitra: "3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search
This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C P VS)."

Scientific American, 18.02.2007: A Digital Life

Scientific American: A Digital Life
by Gordon Bell: "New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive. Our research project, called MyLifeBits, has provided some of the tools needed to compile a lifelong digital archive."

Monday, February 19, 2007

Engadget, 18.03.2007: Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things

Engadget, 18.03.2007: Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things
by Ryan Block: "When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you're using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you've probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives."