Enterprise Web 2.0, 01.10.2006: Where is the Business Value in Enterprise 2.0? by Jerry Bowles: "We seem to be moving toward a consensus on what the key characteristics of social software in the enterprise context are. What we haven’t done so well is make the business value case—how does it help organizations become more productive and competitive?"
webpronews.com, 02.10.2006: Intranets Must be Task Centric by Gerry McGovern: "An organization-centric intranet is departmental-based. A staff-centric intranet is task-based. Organization-centric intranets fail. Task-centric intranets succeed. Here's why."
IT|Redux. 01.10.2006 Enabling Complex Workflows with Office 2.0 by Ismael Ghalimi: "A good workflow process is one that end-users will want to follow, thanks to a user interface that makes them more productive, while inducing minimal cognitive friction. Translation: Keep It Simple, Stupid!"
Open Gardens, 01.10.2006: The dawn of the Widget Widget Web .. by Ajit Jaokar: "The World Wide Web as we know it, is exploding. From its fragments emerges a new 'container based' Web based on Widgets. For the lack of a better word, I shall call it a Widget Widget Web"
Google Reader Update, 29.09.2006: Tags, Sharing, Blogging by Loren Baker: : "The new Google Reader, about a year old and part of the Google Labs family, has added tagging, sharing, scrolling and blogging to its information delivery offering."
ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.09.2006: Can Web 2.0 be adapted to the enterprise? by Dion Hinchcliffe: "I've written several times here about McAfee's thoughts and work about the use of freeform, emergent, social software to enable ad hoc collaboration. McAfee's work essentially applies and combines many of the key Web 2.0 concepts of social software, user generated content, and discoverability via search to the workplace."
Intranet Blog, 27.09.2006: Branding the intranet by Toby Ward: "So what does the brand mean to the intranet? How do you brand the intranet? Firstly, the intranet must reinforce and support the corporate brand. The intranet is one of the most visual representations of the organization to employees on a day-to-day basis."
Techcrunch, 26.09.2006: Jajah Just Launched Killer VOIP Product by Michael Arrington: "VOIP company Jajah just announced an exceptional new consumer service that will let many cell phone users access Jajah’s very low calling rates through their cell phone (and without using data services)."
business2blog B2Day, 25.09.2006: Marketing 2.0: The Content is the Ad by Erick Schonfeld: : "Techmeme, the go-to site to find out what tech bloggers are talking about, is finally putting ads on its site, but with an RSS twist. The ads are a combination of sponsorship spots and paid placement."
HBS Faculty Blog, 23.09.2006: The New Choreography by Andrew McAfee: "At Wednesday's New New Internet conference Google's Rajen Sheth gave a great talk. As part of it, he drew a distinction between application deployment within the enterprise and on the Web."
Toward a Web 2.0 Business Culture, 20.09.2006: Enterprise Information Leverage (Part 1) by Alan Morrison: "Without individual identities, there is no community leverage. Both inside and outside the enterprise, work gets done in communities. Here are some thoughts on specific techniques we could use to develop and leverage information in new ways."
Fortune, 20.09.2006: Chaos by design by Adam Lashinsky: "The inside story of disorder, disarray, and uncertainty at Google. And why it's all part of the plan. (They hope.)"
CNET News.com, 20.09.2006: Web 2.0 entering corporate world slowly by Martin LaMonica: "Notions of Web 2.0 are creeping inside corporate firewalls, but companies still lag consumers in adoption of those technologies because of system complexity and concerns of control, said speakers at the New New Internet conference here on Wednesday."
Infoworld, 22.09.2006: An Apple for the enterprise? by Tom Yager: "Say what? Macs in the mainstream -- even on a server rack? InfoWorld's Tom Yager revisits time-honored, anti-Mac objections now that Leopard and 64-bit x86 chips are in the mix."
Read/Write Web, 20.09.2006: DEMOfall 2006 Presenting Companies Announced by Alex Iskold: "DEMO conference - the premier launchpad for new technologies - has unveiled its list of companies selected to launch at DEMOfall '06. For the past sixteen years this event, produced by Chris Shipley, has attracted premier journalists, venture capitalists and corporate executives."
Business 2.0, 20.09.2006: The Disruptors: 11 Innovators by Erick Schonfeld: "11 companies changing the world: From battling traffic and developing new software, to fighting cancer and powering electric cars, Business 2.0 chose these innovators for their big ideas that will change everything."
Micro Persuasion, 19.09.2006: As the World Turns from MTV to ITV by Steve Rubel: "Lots of companies are moving head-first into the IPTV space. However, what is certain is that the TV business is going to make another sharp hairpin turn that wil make your TiVo look like a UHF in a few years. Here are three trends to watch."
Read/WriteWeb, 18.09.2006: The Social Bookmarking Faceoff by Alex Iskold: "The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind. Will they catch up?"
ebizQ Column 2, 17.09.2006: BPM and Web 2.0 by Sandy Kemsley: "The Web 2.0 areas where I think that most BPMS' fall down is with lightweight programming models, and in ending the software release cycle."
Techcrunch, 18.09.2006: Grazr 1.0 blasts off into the future of RSS by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Grazr is a service that displays OPML files (outlines most commonly made of bundled RSS feeds) in an easily read format that you can interact with inside the Grazr box. It’s literally a way to graze dyanmic information nested in outline form."
Forrester Research, 18.09.2006: The Forrester Wave™: North American SOA Integration, Q3 2006 by Sean Sweeney: "To help North American clients understand the state of the SOA integration market, Forrester evaluated leading consulting and systems integration firms across 39 criteria to understand how these firms are approaching the SOA landscape, judging service capabilities, client experiences, investments in SOA, and delivery resource training."
Innovation Creators, 16.09.2006: HBS Tech Alumni Enterprise Blogging Event by Rod Boothby: "Last night, I was luckily enough to be in San Francisco, (not out of town at a client site) and therefore as able to attend the Blogs, Wikis & Social Media - Are 'Naked Conversations' a Business Communication Revolution event."
alexbarnett.net blog, 16.09.2006: The Long Tail of Tags by Alex Barnett: "I hadn't previously made the connection between the tags I use, their frequency in my tagcloud and Chris Anderson's 'the Long Tail' theory. Doing a quick search on the web, I haven't found anything specific to this topic, so I thought I share what I found."
e e learning, 16.09.2006: rise of the intranet by Dave Lee: "there has been more and more discussion of corporate intranets in the past year or so. in most places workplace learning has been involved in these discussions."
GigaOM, 03.09.2006: Evan Williams is my Tamagotchi by Narendra Rocherolle: "My most recent fascination is with the genre of nanoblogging–new publication services centered around small bursts of information about your location, presence, mood, etc."
Techcrunch, 14.09.2006: SystemOne: gather your resources as you write by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Essentially, it’s a wiki that analyzes what you are writing in real time and offers up related search results from other pages in that wiki, the web in general, your uploaded OPML file of RSS feeds, your emails and any files the system is given access to."
RRough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog, 14.09.2006: Office generations by Nicholas Carr: "Office 2.0 applications are a new generation of personal productivity applications - the would-be successors to the component applications of the ubiquitous Microsoft Office, delivered as services over the internet."
A VC, 13.09.2006: NBBC by Fred Wilson: "NBBC will syndicate video clips--produced by NBC as well as other companies--to a variety of Web sites, including those owned by NBC competitors."
business2blog B2Day, 13.09.2006: The Birth of Web TV Syndication by Erick Schonfeld: "The media microchunk has arrived. NBC Universal is launching a new subsidiary called the National Broadband Company (NBBC) which will take TV content from NBC and other broadcasters and syndicate the video as Web clips, along with ads."
Genuine VC, 13.09.2006: Updates on New New Media by David Beisel: "There are a couple of interesting trade articles this week which demonstrate that two of these other new digital advertising forms are continuing to develop."
Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work, 11.09.2006: Wisdom of crowds — except at work? by Mathew Ingram: "James Surowiecki has written about The Wisdom of Crowds, and many Web 2.0 services such as Wikipedia are based on the idea of “crowdsourcing,” as Wired magazine put it — aggregating contributions from many people to produce some kind of definitive result."
Confused Of Calcutta, 10.09.2006: On social software and consensus by JP Rangaswami: "Have you read David Freedman’s recent piece in Inc. Magazine’s September 2006 edition? Freedman headlines his article What’s Next: The Idiocy of Crowds. OK, that got my attention."
ScottGu's Blog, 11.09.2006: "Atlas" 1.0 Naming and Roadmap by ScottGu: "Over the last year we’ve been working hard on “Atlas”. It has evolved, changed, and grown because of the amazing amount of feedback and early adoption that we’ve seen. We’ve had an unbelievable amount of interest and excitement around the product, with more than 250,000 downloads this year alone."
RRoss Mayfield's Weblog, 10.09.2006: Defining Discussing Enterprise 2.0 by Ross Mayfield: "Another wave of Enterprise 2.0 definition has been kicked off by MR Rangaswami's otherwise good post on the trend. He defines it as enterprise software using the latest in technology, development and delivery methodologies."
ReadWrite Web, 07.09.2006: Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps by Ebrahim Ezzy: "More and more applications these days are being webified - meaning "made to operate on the Web using a browser or made to function in a similar manner." This is because the Internet is capable of significantly augmenting human interaction, with its decentralized system of ubiquitous data accessibility."
AlwaysOn, 06.09.2006: Life on The Long Tail – The Power of Groups by Tom Evslin: "If you want the rank of your blog to climb towards the left end of the long tail, you want to find a way to join a group of other bloggers who are advantaging each other in some way. But the lesson has implications far beyond blogs."
Zoli's Blog, 08.09.2006: Your Neighborhood Bank Becomes Your Trusted SaaS Provider by Zoli Erdos: "That's exactly what Fokus bank pulled off in Norway, in cooperation with 24SevenOffice and Bluegarden. The new, innovative bundle is probably the first of its kind in the World: single sign-on Web solution for your banking and all other business software needs."
SandHill.com, 01.09.2006: The Birth of Enterprise 2.0 by M.R. Rangaswami: "More than simply Web 2.0 applied to business, the synthesis of new technologies, models and mindsets will revolutionize corporate computing - and the software industry."
Read/Write Web, 06.09.2006: Google Instant Intranet by Richard MacManus: "The Personalized Start Page will be one of the options available in the beta Apps For Your Domain service. Currently email, IM, calendar and website creator is included in the package."
Informal Learning Blog, 04.09.2006: The business environment of informal learning by Jay Cross: "Informal learning is not some new option to toy with. Rather, it’s a response to a new world of business, a new contract with workers, a new definition of knowledge, and an incredible philosophy and technological conglomerate known as the internet."
Stefan Decker on the Semantic Web, 04.09.2006: Web 2.0 and SOA by Stefan Decker: "Coming from a business perspective, both concepts deal with best practices for building business processes into vast supply chains. In contrast to Web 2.0, SOA has the concept of orchestration - (although mash-ups in Web 2.0 are coming close)."
SandHill.com, 04.09.2006: The Enterprise 2.0 Vision by Vinnie Mirchandani: "It cannot just reflect the exciting new user centric innovations but also what is happening in the middle and the back in terms of service delivery, third party maintenance, IP licensing and a whole series of other innovations we have been seeing over the last few years."
Forbes.com, 18.09.2006: The New Barbarians by Daniel Lyons: "Free software. Bargain chips. The always-on Internet. Today's tech giants are in danger. But the next big boom has already begun."
Intranet Blog, 31.08.2006: Linking employee health to the intranet by Toby Ward: A study by Hospitals & Health Networks (www.healthconnect.com) has found that the United States’ “100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems have, on average, risk-adjusted mortality rates that are 7.2 percent lower than other hospitals.”
Genuine VC, 02.09.2006: The Challenges of SMO by L. Coburn: "for Social Media Optimization (SMO) there is a tension for online marketers between traditional ways of building traffic through destination pages versus new methods in social spaces. While the former is site-driven the latter is individual-driven."
FT.com, 29.08.2006: Universal backs free music rival to iTunes by Joshua Chaffin: "Universal Music, the world’s largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer’s popular iTunes music store."
A VC, 28.08.2006: Shopcasting by Fred Wilson: "It describes a way of social shopping that I think is going to start to take off on the web. I've been shopcasting since I started my blog with my 'in heavy rotation' list of music you can buy on Amazon."
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog, 30.08.2006: Make widget by Nicholas Carr: "In an interesting post yesterday, Chris Anderson discussed how the YouTube model of syndicated video (upload your file to YouTube, then embed the video, with its supporting application, in your own site) could be extended."
webpronews.com, 29.08.2006: Social Media Optimization by Sally Falkow: "How to make your website social media friendly...Over the past few weeks there has been a fascinating meme developing around the concept of social media optimization."