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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 01.11.2006: Web office is about collaboration

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 01.11.2006: Web office is about collaboration
by Phil Windley: "So, where don't Word and Excel compete well today? The very place that online tools shine: collaboration. Microsoft would like you to believe that that's why your enterprise needs SharePoint, but that's just another form of lock in"

Micro Persuasion, 03.11.2006: Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web

Micro Persuasion, 03.11.2006: Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web
by Steve Rubel: "Personalized start pages and web widgets have been on my mind a lot lately. As I add these gadgets to my Windows Live, Netvibes and Google.com/ig pages, I am spending far less time other sites."

Monday, November 06, 2006

IEEE Spectrum, 02.11.2006: The Firefox Kid

IEEE Spectrum, 02.11.2006: The Firefox Kid
by David Kushner: "Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now."

Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.11.2006: Are Company Blogs Dead?

Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.11.2006: Are Company Blogs Dead?
by Jerry Bowles: "The evidence is still mainly anecdotal (or perhaps early adopters are too embarassed to say so) but it appears that companies that rushed to offer a blog to any employee who wanted one are finding the abandonment rate inside corporations is just about as high as it is on consumer side."

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 02.11.2006: Is SOA just the latest way for vendors to gouge customers?

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 02.11.2006: Is SOA just the latest way for vendors to gouge customers?
by Joe McKendrick: "Ross Mason, CTO of Mulesource and founder of the Mule Enterprise Service Bus, says vendors have been gouging enterprises too long on integration work, and the gouging continues unabated with service-oriented architecture."

Sunday, November 05, 2006

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 02.11.2006: Is Google doing the Rich Internet Application dance?

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 02.11.2006: Is Google doing the Rich Internet Application dance?
by Ryan Stewart: "Google has been very focused on web applications, but web applications simply don't work on mobile devices. Ignoring the mobile world would have been a costly mistake, so Google did what any reasonable company should do, they created an experience custom-tailored for the device accessing content - they built a mobile Rich Internet Application."

VentureBeat, 02.11.2006: Firefox Kid Blake Ross to launch Parakey — this could be big

VentureBeat, 02.11.2006: Firefox Kid Blake Ross to launch Parakey — this could be big
by Matt Marshall: "We first met Blake Ross at Silicon Valley’s Cafe Coupa more than a year ago."

Business Logs, 01.11.2006: Socialtext Gets Cheeky Over JotSpot Purchase

Business Logs, 01.11.2006: Socialtext Gets Cheeky Over JotSpot Purchase
by Mike Rundle: "Wiki startup JotSpot was acquired Tuesday by Google (Techmeme discussion) and I think it's a very smart move for all parties. JotSpot is one of the few companies that earnestly put design and the user's experience above other things, and I'm sure this did not go unnoticed by Google."

Saturday, November 04, 2006

AlwaysOn, 01.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0 – Next Generation, High Performance SFA

AlwaysOn, 01.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0 – Next Generation, High Performance SFA
by Neil McEvoy: "Coined by Harvard’s Andrew McAfee, Enterprise 2.0 refers to the internal use of Web 2.0 technologies, most notably ‘social software’ applications. This article outlines how Drupal can be used this way, with SFA (Sales Force Automation) as the target area."

Wired News, 31.10.2006: Wired Digital Acquires Reddit

Wired News, 31.10.2006: Wired Digital Acquires Reddit
by Wired News Staff: "Wired Digital has purchased the personalized social news aggregation website Reddit, the company announced Tuesday."

GigaOM, 31.10.2006: Is there an IPTV boom in the making?

GigaOM, 31.10.2006: Is there an IPTV boom in the making?
by Om Malik: "After many delays1, Swiss phone incumbent, Swisscom finally launched2 a rudimentary form of their Microsoft-based IPTV system. Bluewin TV, as it is called is promises 100-plus3 TV channels, 70 radio channels, and a whole slew of services."

Friday, November 03, 2006

Enterprise Web 2.0, 31.10.2006: Socialtext, Atlassian Trolling for Unhappy JotSpot Campers

Enterprise Web 2.0, 31.10.2006: Socialtext, Atlassian Trolling for Unhappy JotSpot Campers
by Jerry Bowles: "The wiki world is going a bit wacky over Google’s acquisition of JotSpot with rivals Socialtext and Atlassian both offering “migration” deals to customers who may be feeling some uncertainty about what Google has in mind for its latest property."

Genuine VC, 01.11.2006: The Emerging Field of Social Commerce and Social Shopping

Genuine VC, 01.11.2006: The Emerging Field of Social Commerce and Social Shopping
by David Beisel: "Social shopping is about sharing the act of shopping itself with others, and I view it as a subset of social commerce as a whole. Just as some people enjoy shopping with others in the real world, some will enjoy doing it virtually within a social network."

Techcrunch, 31.10.2006: Here Comes Microsoft 2.0: Embracing Lightweight, Open Source Apps Online

Techcrunch, 31.10.2006: Here Comes Microsoft 2.0: Embracing Lightweight, Open Source Apps Online
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Redmond has announced that it is partnering with PHP commercialization firm Zend, it has released a free, lightweight accounting application integrated with online activities and it will be bringing the first version of Office Live out of beta in two weeks. A new cross vendor ad management service will allow customers to buy AdSense as well as Microsoft ads and there will be a new hosted CRM service."

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Techcrunch, 31.10.2006: Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot

Techcrunch, 31.10.2006: Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Google’s office strategy just got a whole lot richer with the announced acquisition of the wiki based company Jotspot. A business oriented service that plugs a long list of different applications like calendars and photo sharing into a wiki framework"

Optimize Magazine, 01.11.2006: Does Enterprise 2.0 Threaten To Dumb Down Businesses? || November 2006

Optimize Magazine, 01.11.2006: Does Enterprise 2.0 Threaten To Dumb Down Businesses? || November 2006
by Thomas Davenport: "Exactly how might the 'dumbification' of businesses take place after widespread adoption of social media? Let's make the (dubious) assumption that lots of organizations begin encouraging their employees to blog en masse, wiki their little hearts out, and tag until the cows come home."

Weblog of Tom Purves, 31.10.2006: How to get social media tools to work in an organization

Weblog of Tom Purves, 31.10.2006: How to get social media tools to work in an organization
by Tom Purves: "Chris rounds up of some of the tips and advice that were shared for how to encourage traction of the existing tools like wiki’s and blogs within the enterprise. These notes stem from the learning that simply giving users a blank page to start with is not likely to be sufficient to gain traction with these new tools. example tips"

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 30.102.006: Socialtext meets SharePoint with Socialpoint

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 30.102.006: Socialtext meets SharePoint with Socialpoint
by Dan Farber: "A bottom up open source and top down proprietary collaboration platform, enterprise wiki Socialtext and Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server, have come together in SocialPoint. Built with Socialtext 2.0 Wiki Web Services and SharePoint Web Parts, SocialPoint allows SharePoint to authenticate to multiple wikis, as well as display recent changes and pages and allow editing within the portal."

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 30.10.2006: The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 30.10.2006: The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "...the most important and effective actions a site designer can take to realize the benefits of Web 2.0. As a result, I've created the list below in a attempt to catpure a good, general purpose overview of what these steps are."

O'Reilly Radar, 30.10.2006: Fortune Mag Bullish on Technology

O'Reilly Radar, 30.10.2006: Fortune Mag Bullish on Technology
by Tim O'Reilly: "I was fascinated by the take on the tech industry in David Kirkpatrick's recent story for Fortune magazine: This Tech Boom Has Legs. While it's true, as Marc recently noted, that Web 2.0 appears to be reaching a bubble level of hype, Kirkpatrick nonetheless notes good prospects for the adoption of technology, especially because of emerging markets."