eMedia News: 2006

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 14.12.2006: Transparent Media and Wikify Everything

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 14.12.2006: Transparent Media and Wikify Everything
by Ross Mayfield: "An interesting thought experiment is not only would this work for Wired, or a media company, but would it work for any company."

Mashable!, 14.12.2006: 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay

Mashable!, 14.12.2006: 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay
by Pete Cashmore: "With the top YouTube users becoming paid shills for Coke, and the top Diggers being accused of taking ‘cash for Diggs‘, it seems that the users of social sites are looking to be rewarded for their efforts. In fact, there are already plenty of services that will pay you for your participation. Here are nineteen of the best, plus a few bonuses."

Fractals of Change, 13.12.2006: Distributed Networking - Don’t Forget the Long Links

Fractals of Change, 13.12.2006: Distributed Networking - Don’t Forget the Long Links
by Tom Evslin: "Many networks consist of clusters of endpoints knitted together by many short links and a much less dense set of long links which tie clusters together. A disproportionate share of the value of a network to its participants flows through the long links. Here are four examples with practical implications."

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 13.12.2006: Usability on the web is a sham

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 13.12.2006: Usability on the web is a sham
by Ryan Stewart: "Accessibility and standards are still very important parts of the web because information needs to be available to everyone, but dismissing the next generation of RIAs because they don't fit into the current model is short sighted."

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Read/Write Web, 13.12.2006: Search 2.0 - What's Next?

Read/Write Web, 13.12.2006: Search 2.0 - What's Next?
by Emre Sokullu: "Moreover, the super high valuation of Google on NASDAQ pushes investors and researchers to find better search solutions - to be The Next Big Thing. And these wannabes are not only working on discovering better indexing techniques, they're exploring new horizons like vertical engines, meaning-based search, intent-driven search, new clustering methods, and much more. In this post, we look into latest trends in the search industry."

Business Intelligence, 12.12.2006: Information Streams in the Enterprise

Business Intelligence, 12.12.2006: Information Streams in the Enterprise
by Mike Heck: "Enterprise RSS is poised to become the focal point that employees turn to for information, eclipsing individual aggregators plus systems such as portals, intranets, and enterprise applications."

Intranet Blog, 12.12.2006: More problems for world’s biggest intranet

Intranet Blog, 12.12.2006: More problems for world’s biggest intranet
by Toby Ward: "The $10 billion Navy-Marine Corps. (NMCI) intranet is not meeting its goals. The 10-year project steered by EDS has not met most of its key objectives."

ZDNet.com, Open Source, 11.12.2006: Open source is a sales model

ZDNet.com, Open Source, 11.12.2006: Open source is a sales model
by Dana Blankenhorn: "Open source is merely an efficient sales method for that business model, which now works for client applications, not just hosted offerings like Salesforce.com."

Monday, December 18, 2006

The Next Net, 12.12.2006: Yahoo Opens Up Project Panama

The Next Net, 12.12.2006: Yahoo Opens Up Project Panama
by Erick Schonfeld: "One reason Yahoo (YHOO) has been getting dinged by Wall Street is because its answer to Google's AdWords, dubbed Project Panama, has been repeatedly delayed. SearchEngineLand reports that it is now open to anyone who wants to sign up."

Cathexis, 11.12.2006: Enterprise 2.0: The Long Tail Within

Cathexis, 11.12.2006: Enterprise 2.0: The Long Tail Within
by Catherine Shinners: "The Long Tail market concept, (Chris Anderson), is now familiar to many observers of the Web’s impact on markets and commerce. From the point of view of external markets, it often represented like this."

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 11.12.2006: Socialtext Unplugged

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 11.12.2006: Socialtext Unplugged
by Ross Mayfield: Today at Le Web 3 in Paris we launched Socialtext Unplugged, the offline wiki. On my way here, I used it by clicking on the Unplug icon, downloading a collection of wiki pages, got on a plane and edited them offline.

SearchViews, 08.12.2006: Yahoo's Re-Org and Metacafe Rumors

SearchViews, 08.12.2006: Yahoo's Re-Org and Metacafe Rumors
by Kate Zimmermann: "Is Yahoo is finally cleaning up their internal "peanut butter" problem? On Tuesday, Yahoo announced their plans to merge media assets and reshuffle upper management (including the departure of COO Dan Rosensweig) by mashing everything into three overhead groups."

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Enterprise Architecture, 11.12.2006: Thought Leadership: Enterprise Architecture: More Predictions for 2007

Enterprise Architecture, 11.12.2006: Thought Leadership: Enterprise Architecture: More Predictions for 2007
by James McGovern: "Here are some additional predictions for 2007."

Communitelligence.com, 11.12.2006: Intranet case study: GM’s mySocrates

Communitelligence.com, 11.12.2006: Intranet case study: GM’s mySocrates
by Toby Ward: "General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the global industry sales leader for 75 years. The intranet is a unifying force in massive, sprawling enterprise that employs about 327,000 people in 33 countries."

Read/Write Web, 11.12.2006: 2006 Web Technology Trends

Read/Write Web, 11.12.2006: 2006 Web Technology Trends
by Richard MacManus: "Mark recently had an article published in Management Magazine that outlined Web trends for 2006 and 2007. Mark interviewed me for that article."

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 10.12.2006: Why are we building ‘enterprise’ SOAs with ‘LEGO blocks’?

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 10.12.2006: Why are we building ‘enterprise’ SOAs with ‘LEGO blocks’?
by Joe McKendrick: "Building 'enterprises,' one LEGO block at a time"

Thursday, December 14, 2006

InformationWeek, Innovators & Influencers, 11.12.2006: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 - Internet News by InformationWeek

InformationWeek, Innovators & Influencers, 11.12.2006: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 - Internet News by InformationWeek
by Brian Gillooly: "JP Rangaswami wants to apply interactive Web tools in business processes"

O'Reilly Radar, 10.12.2006: Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again

O'Reilly Radar, 10.12.2006: Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again
by Tim O'Reilly: "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")"

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 09.12.2006: SAP’s SOA strategy ‘is so 1995′

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 09.12.2006: SAP’s SOA strategy ‘is so 1995′
by Joe McKendrick: "The era of customers being herded like cattle into forced or enticed migrations is over, and SOA the reason."

Enterprise Web 2.0, 08.12.2006: 5 Questions for Itensil’s Keith Patterson

Enterprise Web 2.0, 08.12.2006: 5 Questions for Itensil’s Keith Patterson
by Jerry Bowles: "Keith Patterson is the CEO and visionary behind Itensil, Inc., a web 2.0 software firm that develops web 2.0 user interface technology and provides a hosted service called Itensil Team Activity Manager. The product features a unique wiki + workflow integration that enables teams to turn collaborative ideas into reusable workflows. Patterson bootstrapped Itensil from a Silicon Valley ad and web services firm. Version 3, the Enterprise 2.0 version of the product, is currently in early access user trials and is producing promising results."

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 08.12.2006: Let’s bring Steve Jobs in to make SOA a hit

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 08.12.2006: Let’s bring Steve Jobs in to make SOA a hit
by Joe McKendrick: "Is SOA suffering from a failure of imagination? Perhaps the industry needs someone who can really capture the imagination of business decision makers to really make service-oriented architecture all that it can and should be."

Micro Persuasion, 07.12.2006: How TV Will Become the Ultimate Open Content Platform

Micro Persuasion, 07.12.2006: How TV Will Become the Ultimate Open Content Platform
by Steve Rubel: "Since the dawn of the medium in the 1950s, big media has had a stranglehold over what you watch on your TV. However, that's all about to change. A perfect storm is brewing. A-la-carte programming, branded entertainment and peer-created content are all coming to your TV in glorious high definition - all brought to you by the letters IPTV."

paidContent.org, 06.12.2006: The Economics of Content

paidContent.org, 06.12.2006: The Economics of Content
by Staci D. Kramer: "Amazon is the sole investor in Wikia’s second round. Wikia is the for-profit community wiki company from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who is chairman."

Open Gardens, 06.12.2006: The Mobile Web Phone: A gedankenexperiment ..

Open Gardens, 06.12.2006: The Mobile Web Phone: A gedankenexperiment ..
by Ajit Jaokar: "What I am proposing is a mobile phone optimised to accessing information on the Web (which is predominantly browsing but not necessarily so i.e. could include Widgets and RSS). The operative word being ‘Optimised’."

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Forrester Research, 07.12.2006: Smackdown: Rich Internet Applications Versus HTML

Forrester Research, 07.12.2006: Smackdown: Rich Internet Applications Versus HTML
by Ron Rogowski: "We found that, on average, RIAs outperform HTML interfaces; at the same time, RIA usability can fall prey to basic design mistakes. To make the most of their investments, firms planning to invest in RIAs must apply design best practices and run multiple tests on their RIAs before — and after — they go live."

chilibean, 07.12.2006: A del.icio.us enterprise

chilibean, 07.12.2006: A del.icio.us enterprise
by Paul: "A number of companies and groups are starting to see commercial applications for del.icio.us that focus on research and aggregation of information. One example of where del.icio.us is being used to aggregate information is in podcasting."

InfoWorld, 06.12.2006: Vista, SAAS, virtualization to top 2007 software trends

InfoWorld, 06.12.2006: Vista, SAAS, virtualization to top 2007 software trends
by Elizabeth Montalbano: "Several software standouts are seen as heavy hitters for the coming year"

James Governor's MonkChips, 06.12.2006: On Dorking out with Apple, Leopard, Free Podcast servers, the "SBS killer" strategy and the Glenwood Zelenkas.

James Governor's MonkChips, 06.12.2006: On Dorking out with Apple, Leopard, Free Podcast servers, the "SBS killer" strategy and the Glenwood Zelenkas.
by James Governor: "This blog is in two halves - hardware and software. The latter is where you'll find out about Apple's operating environment for collaboration - no need to but separate SKUs for wikis, blogs and so on. "

San Francisco Chronicle, 06.12.2006: Valley's 'Mr. Web 2.0' seeks next big thing / TechCrunch blog ruffles feathers on the Internet beat

San Francisco Chronicle, 06.12.2006: Valley's 'Mr. Web 2.0' seeks next big thing / TechCrunch blog ruffles feathers on the Internet beat
by Dan Fost: "For the next month or so, Arrington is giving up the all-nighters that come with his status as a major player in Silicon Valley. "I'm going to be taking some time and really thinking about the business," including what sorts of new sites to add and what directions the content should go in."

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 06.12.2006: Can Apple cuddle up to the enterprise?

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 06.12.2006: Can Apple cuddle up to the enterprise?
by Larry Dignan: "Whether Apple can be an enterprise player has been the subject of debate for years, but one analyst thinks that the company's recent purchase of a U.K.-firm may give it an entry."

Remarkk!, 06.12.2006: Open Source Innovation Models

Remarkk!, 06.12.2006: Open Source Innovation Models
by Mark Kuznicki: "Ross at the MaRS blog has an interesting post on Open Source Science. He points to an interview at HBS Working Knowledge with Karim Lakhani. I agree with Ross that the most promising aspects of open-source approaches are the possibilities of collaborating between domains, at Johansson’s intersections."

webpronews.com, 06.12.2006: SES Maximizing Social Search

webpronews.com, 06.12.2006: SES Maximizing Social Search
by Jason Lee Miller: "The rise of the social network has e-business professionals batting ideas back and forth about how to properly utilize them to draw attention to a service or product. One of the areas explored is social search - where's it headed, what needs to be improved and what people are doing about it."

Monday, December 11, 2006

Collaborative Thinking, 05.12.2006: Social Computing: From LifeStyle to Workstyle

Collaborative Thinking, 05.12.2006: Social Computing: From LifeStyle to Workstyle
by Mike Gotta: "While much of the media focus is on the technology, I've been more interested in examining aspects related to organizational dynamics and the manner in which such software can enable more effective social scaffolding within enterprises."

Innovation Creators, 04.12.2006: Elevators should have undo buttons

Innovation Creators, 04.12.2006: Elevators should have undo buttons
by Rod Boothby: "Enterprise IT organizations make the same mistake when they try to shut down internal initiatives, such as the use of blogs and wikis with inappropriate business questions like "What if Johnny writes the wrong thing in his blog"?"

A VC, 04.12.2006: The De-Portalization of the Internet (aka What I Would Do If I Were Running Yahoo!)

A VC, 04.12.2006: The De-Portalization of the Internet (aka What I Would Do If I Were Running Yahoo!)
by Fred Wilson: "Google and others changed all of that. I don't have the data to prove it, but my guess is if you looked at the percent of all pageviews that are generated each month, a much smaller portion exist on the top 10 properties today than in 2000, at the height of the first Internet era."

Micro Persuasion, 05.12.2006: Who Has Been Naughty or Nice in Web 2.0?

Micro Persuasion, 05.12.2006: Who Has Been Naughty or Nice in Web 2.0?
by Steve Rubel: "Big Media's Been Scrooge-Like While Long-Tailers Are Quite Generous"

Friday, December 08, 2006

O'Reilly Radar, 05.12.2006: 72 Hours in Silicon Welly: InnaWorks and the Future of the Web

O'Reilly Radar, 05.12.2006: 72 Hours in Silicon Welly: InnaWorks and the Future of the Web
by Nat Torkington: More precisely, desktop apps are being replaced with web apps that have offline behaviour. When you begin to think of apps in that light, you see Adobe's Apollo (a cross-platform desktop RIA environment available as a browser plugin), Java, Microsoft's Avalon, and Ajax apps as all possible successors to the Win32 throne.

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect , 05.12.2006: SOA Insights Edition podcast delves into Microsoft’s schizophrenic approach to SOA

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect , 05.12.2006: SOA Insights Edition podcast delves into Microsoft’s schizophrenic approach to SOA
by Dana Gardner: "Is Microsoft a services oriented architecture (SOA) company or not? Increasingly the software giant is walking the SOA walk if not talking the SOA talk. So we took this apparently schizophrenic approach to SOA to a panel of independent IT analysts for some probing and vetting."

Intranet Blog, 04.12.2006: Intranet case study: Fidelity Investments (webinar)

Intranet Blog, 04.12.2006: Intranet case study: Fidelity Investments (webinar)
by Toby Ward: "Most intranets have humble beginnings that grow and grow and then, like a weed, grow out of control. Fidelity’s intranet began at the grass-roots level in the mid-1990s, and since then has undergone three formal design iterations – with many smaller enhancements along the way."

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing, 29.11.2006: Blogs and wikis, Web 2.0 platforms?

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing, 29.11.2006: Blogs and wikis, Web 2.0 platforms?
by Don Dodge: "Wikis and blogs are great collaboration tools, but they are now moving beyond that to become application platforms. Socialtext and JotSpot (acquired by Google) are building out suites of office productivity applications built on top of a wiki platform. Telligent and Blogtronix are building application platforms on top of the blog model."

Collaboration Loop, 04.12.2006: Enteprise 2.0: More Than Blogs and Wikis

Collaboration Loop, 04.12.2006: Enteprise 2.0: More Than Blogs and Wikis
by Larry Cannell: "However, don't think that Enterprise 2.0 is simply the repurposing of blogs, wikis, bookmarking, etc. for corporate use. In my opinion, the Enterprise 2.0 name represents the refinement of CTC's original mission, of which Web 2.0 technologies play a significant role."

China Web2.0 Review, 05.12.2006: HooDong Open Source Wiki and Chinese Wiki Market

China Web2.0 Review, 05.12.2006: HooDong Open Source Wiki and Chinese Wiki Market
by Tangos: "Hoodong, a wiki service in China, announced that it will release an open source Hoodong Wiki system. It is now open for free download."

SeekingAlpha, 05.12.2006: Goldman On IT Trends: What Tech Companies Stand To Gain?

SeekingAlpha, 05.12.2006: Goldman On IT Trends: What Tech Companies Stand To Gain?
by Eric Savitz: "The Goldman report notes that almost two-thirds of IT spending comes from four key sectors of the economy. IT spending in financial services should grow at a similar rate to 2006, Goldman says; communications sector spending should pick up; but manufacturing spending should decellerate. Government spending is expected to be stable."

Thursday, December 07, 2006

USAToday.com, 21.11.2006: Amazon's new direction: Point, click, make a product to sell to the world - USATODAY.com

USAToday.com, 21.11.2006: Amazon's new direction: Point, click, make a product to sell to the world - USATODAY.com
by Kevin Maney: "Before long, "user-generated content" won't refer only to media, but to just about anything: user-generated jeans, user-generated sports cars, user-generated breakfast meats. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he has a hard time explaining Amazon's plans to launch virtual start-ups."

InfoWorld, 04.12.2006: Requiem for the packaged app

InfoWorld, 04.12.2006: Requiem for the packaged app
by Eric Knorr: "BEA's Chuang: Empowered users are the future"

GigaOM, 04.12.2006: Platforms and Technology Cottage Industries

GigaOM, 04.12.2006: Platforms and Technology Cottage Industries
: "As I explained earlier in a piece for The Wall Street Journal2, it is the platform, stupid. While that piece looked at the world from the eyes of the platform dons, the argument still holds."

New York Times, 03.12.2006: Open-Source Spying

New York Times, 03.12.2006: Open-Source Spying
by Clive Thompson: "Billions of dollars’ worth of ultrasecret data networks couldn’t help spies piece together the clues to the worst terrorist plot ever. So perhaps, they argue, it’ s time to try something radically different. Could blogs and wikis prevent the next 9/11?"

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.12.2006: Other Thoughts on WPF/E

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.12.2006: Other Thoughts on WPF/E
by Ryan Stewart: "WPF/E is not a Flash killer. Flash isn’t going away, and value-adds like Flex and VoIP down the road make Flash a formidable foe for anyone getting into the cross-platform runtime business."

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

CIO.com, 01.12.2006: The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture

CIO.com, 01.12.2006: The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture
by Galen Gruman: An exclusive MIT survey maps the evolution of IT architecture and explains why you can’t skip any steps.

gridtoday.com, 04.12.2006: Survey Says Web Services 'Reuse' Number One Driver for SOA

gridtoday.com, 04.12.2006: Survey Says Web Services 'Reuse' Number One Driver for SOA
: "To maximize the intended benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations, organizations need to develop a well-articulated SOA quality strategy to promote trust and reuse, according to new research from analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates."

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 03.12.2006: Three reasons SOA will increase outsourcing

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 03.12.2006: Three reasons SOA will increase outsourcing
by Joe McKendrick: "SaaS, as a matter of fact, is the ultimate expression of outsourcing via SOA. Doug Henshen, writing in Intelligent Enterprise, recently observed that SOA and SaaS are joined at the hip."

Techcrunch, 01.12.2006: New Amazon Web Service Coming: “SDS”

Techcrunch, 01.12.2006: New Amazon Web Service Coming: “SDS”
by Michael Arrington: "A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called “SDS” is referenced on this Amazon web page discussing customer YouOS (see second to last paragraph - screen shot is also below) and is being tested with a select few Amazon partners."

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 03.12.2006: Dismantle Content Management Systems (CMS)! Rebuild them with Social Media Features

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 03.12.2006: Dismantle Content Management Systems (CMS)! Rebuild them with Social Media Features
by Jeremiah Owyang: "As a former web manager, I know the challenges of content management systems, asking for the 2.0 features to emerge out of 1.0 CMS systems ain’t going to happen easily."

James Governor's MonkChips, 01.12.2006: Case Study: T-Mobile and Adobe Flex, Extending SAP with Agile methods

James Governor's MonkChips, 01.12.2006: Case Study: T-Mobile and Adobe Flex, Extending SAP with Agile methods
by James Governor: "At Adobe MAX the most interesting session I attended was a presentation by T-Mobile. The wireless provider is using Adobe technology to extend SAP and rapidly bring new applications to users, without any Big Middleware SOA blather. The development team might as well have walked around with Neon Tangerine Flake "We Get It" signs above their heads (well this was Las Vegas, after all). It was, as I say, good stuff."

Intranet Blog, 30.11.2006: Pick a Card (sort), any card

Intranet Blog, 30.11.2006: Pick a Card (sort), any card
by Toby Ward: "A lot has been made of card sorting in developing site information architectures. In short, card sorting involves having users sort content into intuitive groups. Content categories or types are written on flash cards and users are encouraged to sort them according to their own intuitive preferences."

Semantic Studios, 29.11.2006: Information Architecture 3.0

Semantic Studios, 29.11.2006: Information Architecture 3.0
by Peter Morville: "Next year, after the bubble bursts, we will enter the era of Information Architecture 3.0. This won’t surprise Tim O’Reilly who slyly positioned the polar bear atop the #1 Google hit for Web 2.0 and commissioned the third edition just in time to clean up the mess."

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Economist.com, 30.11.2006: The phone of the future

Economist.com, 30.11.2006: The phone of the future
About: "The phone has had a splendid 130-year history. What will it look like in future? Will it even be called a phone?"

MobileCrunch, 29.11.2006: Mobility Transforms the Internet: “It’s Happening Today”

MobileCrunch, 29.11.2006: Mobility Transforms the Internet: “It’s Happening Today”
by Oliver Starr: "Nokia CTO Tero Ojanpera walked us through his vision for the future of mobility and mobile devices. His belief that key innovations, including the massive amount of storage that will be available on each device, the falling towards zero of the capex for bandwidth (and the concurrent increase in bandwidth and reduction in cost) and the inclusion of web servers on every mobile device will as Tero put it “fundamentally change the nature of the Internet”"

O'Reilly Radar, 02.12.2006: The Economics of Disaggregation

O'Reilly Radar, 02.12.2006: The Economics of Disaggregation
by Tim O'Reilly: "Peter Brantley pointed on a private email list to "a nice article in slate on the disaggregation of content in newspapers, with several nice insights, including a remark on the lack of novelty of some of the problems facing the industry."

Forbes.com, 01.12.2006: Giving It Away

Forbes.com, 01.12.2006: Giving It Away
by Cory Doctorow: "I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money."

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 29.11.2006: Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 29.11.2006: Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "But the biggest question that comes up is that if you let your users generate most of your content and then expose it all up via an API, how can a profitable business be made from this?"

John Battelle's Searchblog, 29.11.2006: Updated: Google Display Advertising Network

John Battelle's Searchblog, 29.11.2006: Updated: Google Display Advertising Network
by John Battelle: "John Chow, who runs the Tech Zone, spills the news that Google is deadly serious about selling direct to the Fortune 1000, and working direct with selected publishers on a CPM basis. Interesting. I knew Google was doing this already, but did not know it had a name!"

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 01.12.2006: Rich Internet Advertising

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 01.12.2006: Rich Internet Advertising
by Ryan Stewart: "Beet.tv has an interview wtih David Hallerman, an analyst with eMarketer about the advertising market. As he notes, we’re still in the infant stage of video advertising, but he’s also correct when he says paid search is just direct marketing."

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 30.11.2006: Is Apple going to embrace Rich Internet Applications?

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 30.11.2006: Is Apple going to embrace Rich Internet Applications?
by Ryan Stewart: "But after doing some digging, there might be a more interesting (if unlikely) scenario - they're planning to leverage Quicktime as an RIA platform using the upcoming Core Animation for Leopard."

Monday, December 04, 2006

Enterprise Architecture, 30.11.2006: Industry Analysts and increasing Enterprise Transparency...

Enterprise Architecture, 30.11.2006: Industry Analysts and increasing Enterprise Transparency...
by James McGovern: "Over a year ago, James Governor of Redmonk and I had a conversation regarding large enterprises and their ability to become more transparent. I figured I would share a couple of thoughts that we have been noodling at work in this regard..."

Collaboration Loop, 28.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Avoid Ready, Fire, Aim...

Collaboration Loop, 28.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Avoid Ready, Fire, Aim...
by Mike Gotta: "There are many people proactively offering advice to business and IT strategists concerning market, organizational and technology trends under the banner of '[insert term here] 2.0'."

CMSWire, 28.11.2006: SpikeSource Beefs Enterprise 2.0, Web CMS Competition

CMSWire, 28.11.2006: SpikeSource Beefs Enterprise 2.0, Web CMS Competition
by Seth Weintraub: "has aligned with CorraTech to provide a suite of open source applications. The software offering, aptly dubbed OpenSuite, is delivered either on-premise or as an on-demand service."

Enterprise Information, 28.11.2006: Last word: The trouble with portal dashboards…

Enterprise Information, 28.11.2006: Last word: The trouble with portal dashboards…
By Janus Boye: "Enterprise portals are supposed to make systems more accessible to real, live humans. But portal technology adopters today face several usability challenges, including complicated dashboard interfaces."

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 29.11.2006: Certifiable

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 29.11.2006: Certifiable
by Ross Mayfield: "Open Source projects that have followed the process and gained certification have earned something. It is a process that is inevitably burdensome and risky, as is any process, especially subject to an open community."

HBS Working Knowledge, 20.11.2006: Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

HBS Working Knowledge, 20.11.2006: Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
by Martha Lagace: "Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani and colleagues decided to see how 'broadcasting' might work among scientists trying to solve scientific problems. The results? Promising for many types of innovation, as he explains in this Q&A."

Intranet Blog, 28.11.2006: Intranet ROI - Q & A

Intranet Blog, 28.11.2006: Intranet ROI - Q & A
by Toby Ward: "From the Intranet ROI webinar, here are (with some paraphrasing) some of the questions and answers on return on investment (ROI) and intranets"

In-Stat Press Release, 28.11.2006: WiMAX Gaining Momentum, But Unlikely to Threaten 3G in Asia/Pacific This Decade

In-Stat Press Release, 28.11.2006: WiMAX Gaining Momentum, But Unlikely to Threaten 3G in Asia/Pacific This Decade
by Elaine Potter: "For at least another five years, however, BWA in the form of WiMAX is unlikely to pose a big threat to 3G, as it will take longer to mature, the high-tech market research firm says."

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 27.11.2006: The World Wide World

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 27.11.2006: The World Wide World
by Ross Mayfield: "the future of content; He clarifies that he thought rising production costs applies to the content industry, not end users. I'd say that platforms will emerge for end users to have their day."

BusinessWeek Online, 20.11.2006: RFID Is Just "Tip of the Iceberg"

BusinessWeek Online, 20.11.2006: RFID Is Just "Tip of the Iceberg"
by Steve Ranger: "The British telecom's resident futurologist says the next Internet evolution involves RFID tagging of everyday objects, which would all talk to each other."

paidContent.org, 27.11.2006: Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment

paidContent.org, 27.11.2006: Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment
by Rafat Ali: "Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang has come out with a report on, well, Long Tail, but this one focuses on what he calls the mid part of the content and distribution value chain, where he sees the most value in the long run...that mid part is the part of aggregation-and-context players in the market, with the theory that “Value of aggregation and brands increases with exponential increase in content choices.” "

Read/Write Web, 28.11.2006: Microsoft Expression Web: Taking Over From Frontpage and Taking On Adobe

Read/Write Web, 28.11.2006: Microsoft Expression Web: Taking Over From Frontpage and Taking On Adobe
by Richard MacManus: "One is the Expression suite of web design tools. Expression Web is part of the suite and is a standards based Web Design tool, which will replace Microsoft's staple WYSIWYG webpage editor Frontpage."

Friday, December 01, 2006

HBS Faculty Blog, 27.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0 Insecurities

HBS Faculty Blog, 27.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0 Insecurities
by Andrew McAfee: "After I posted on Avenue A | Razorfish's Enterprise 2.0 Intranet, a few commenters pointed out a potentially troublesome feature. When employees (or anyone else, for that matter) add the tag 'AARF' in del.icio.us, Flickr, or Digg, the so-tagged items show up within the company's Intranet."

Enterprise Web 2.0, 28.11.2006: Is SaaS the Death Knell for Corporate IT?

Enterprise Web 2.0, 28.11.2006: Is SaaS the Death Knell for Corporate IT?
by Jerry Bowles: "In other words, nobody knows for sure at this point exactly how SaaS is going to shake out but all of the big apps and SIs are gingerly poking their fingers into the cloud."

Techcrunch, 27.11.2006: Can eyeOS Succeed Where Desktop.com Failed?

Techcrunch, 27.11.2006: Can eyeOS Succeed Where Desktop.com Failed?
by Natali Del Conte: "The founders of Barcelona-based eyeOS hope that they’ve found the right model to create a much anticipated new market - the web operating system."

webpronews.com, 27.11.2006: Intranets Not Realizing Productivity Gains

webpronews.com, 27.11.2006: Intranets Not Realizing Productivity Gains
by Gerry McGovern: "The intranet is still in its infancy. It has not yet exploited its potential for creating value for the organization, according to the 2006 Global Intranet Strategies Survey."

Thursday, November 30, 2006

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.11.2006: Applying Web 2.0 in the enterprise: News from the trenches

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.11.2006: Applying Web 2.0 in the enterprise: News from the trenches
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "Both pieces of news seem to be hallmarks of important and connected emerging trends on the Internet and are worth a closer look."

Enterprise Architecture, 27.11.2006: Thought Leadership: Why IT Executives simply don't understand Agile methodologies...

Enterprise Architecture, 27.11.2006: Thought Leadership: Why IT Executives simply don't understand Agile methodologies...
by James McGovern: "Figured I would share several IT executive anti-patterns when it comes to truly being agile...Listed below are some key considerations:"

New York Times, 27.11.2006: The Air Is Free, and Sometimes So Are the Phone Calls That Borrow It

New York Times, 27.11.2006: The Air Is Free, and Sometimes So Are the Phone Calls That Borrow It
by Matt Richtel: "Gary Schaffer looked out his window here last week to discover a reporter standing on his lawn, pirating his wireless Internet access to test a new mobile phone."

silicon.com, 27.11.2006: Google: 'iPod will hold all the world's TV in 12 years' - Storage

silicon.com, 27.11.2006: Google: 'iPod will hold all the world's TV in 12 years' - Storage
by Jo Best: "The future of music inspires the future of mobile"

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Rajesh's Technical Rants, 26.11.2006: *2.0 is disruptive to the nth power!

Rajesh's Technical Rants, 26.11.2006: *2.0 is disruptive to the nth power!
by Rajesh Venkatesan: "Here is an example of 'Crowd Sourcing' coming to the forefront after wikipedia. We are Smarter is gathering people to write the first book on business by means of Crowd Sourcing!"

Read/Write Web, 26.11.2006: Google Docs and Spreadsheets Interview

Read/Write Web, 26.11.2006: Google Docs and Spreadsheets Interview
by Richard MacManus: "Interesting podcast interview by Gizbuzz, with Jen Mazzon and Sam Schillace of the Google Docs and Spreadsheets team (both ex-Writely). They start off by saying that D&S is aimed at 'people who need to collaborate and share their stuff online'."

O'Reilly Radar, 26.11.2006: Open Source Gift Guide

O'Reilly Radar, 26.11.2006: Open Source Gift Guide
by Tim O'Reilly: " Over on makezine, Phil Torrone has created a fabulous Open Source Gift Guide.. Here is my suggestion for the friend who already has everything: make a donation in their name to one of the many great organizations that work tirelessly to support the ideals of open source and free culture"

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 25.11.2006: More SOA, more outsourcing?

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 25.11.2006: More SOA, more outsourcing?
by Joe McKendrick: "Will SOA increase or decrease the demand for outsourcing?"

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The Yourdon Report, 24.11.2006: CIO Insight’s predictions of 30 top IT trends for 2007

The Yourdon Report, 24.11.2006: CIO Insight’s predictions of 30 top IT trends for 2007
by Ed Yourdon: "CIO Insight has published their list of predictions of the 30 top IT trends for 2007. There’s no explanation, justification, or discussion of their list — so I don’t know what kind of thinking, analysis, surveys, or other mumbo-jumbo formed the basis for their predictions."

Parisista, 24.11.2006: Enterprise Tagging: How Sales & Marketing can exchange information

Parisista, 24.11.2006: Enterprise Tagging: How Sales & Marketing can exchange information
by Indus Khaitan: "Tagging on the internet has allowed discovery of information from individual blog posts, to stories, to stock tickers, to photos, all of which has given rise to Folksonomy. Large corporations have Marketing departments spend millions of dollars in marketing material which never get shared with the sales department -- event if they do, it's after spending tonnes of money in building/buying some proprietary software to automate the process."

The Blog Herald, 25.11.2006: Is Corporate America Finally Getting Web 2.0? (YouTube And CBS)

The Blog Herald, 25.11.2006: Is Corporate America Finally Getting Web 2.0? (YouTube And CBS)
by Darnell Clayton: "it looks like corporate America is getting that social network sites like YouTube can be an asset instead of a pain in the “you know what.”"

Techcrunch, 24.11.2006: The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat

Techcrunch, 24.11.2006: The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat
by Nick Gonzalez: "Real time communication is one of the most innovative sectors on the web today. Below are some of the big ideas emerging in web instant messaging as it stands today and the services that exemplify them."

Monday, November 27, 2006

Collaborative Thinking, 24.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Focus On Organizational Dynamics, Not Technology

Collaborative Thinking, 24.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Focus On Organizational Dynamics, Not Technology
by Mike Gotta: "Today, that silver-bullet ('plastics') has been replaced by 'blogs', 'wikis', 'social networks', 'RSS', 'tagging', 'social bookmarks', 'anything-Ajax' and so on."

webpronews.com, 22.11.2006: Socialtext Proposes Attribution Provision

webpronews.com, 22.11.2006: Socialtext Proposes Attribution Provision
by Ross Mayfield: "When going through the process of opening Socialtext, we need to choose a license that is a fit for a commercial open source company. Commercial open source strikes the balance between freedom and profit motive, and the license you choose becomes a contract not just for the company, but a community."

Bokardo - Social Web Design, 23.11.2006: Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems

Bokardo - Social Web Design, 23.11.2006: Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems
by Joshua Porter: "Why and how scale in social tagging systems can leverage the Wisdom of Crowds (much like Google does with links) to make the incorrect tags less influential than certain Aristotelians would have us believe."

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 22.11.2006: Less coding, less outsourcing?

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 22.11.2006: Less coding, less outsourcing?
by Joe McKendrick: "Will SOA take away a lot of outsourcers' business? Or will its impact be negligible?"

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Open Gardens, 22.11.2006: The Mobile Internet (voice) cat is out of the bag ..

Open Gardens, 22.11.2006: The Mobile Internet (voice) cat is out of the bag ..
by Dr Paddy Byers: "There’s been heaps of discussion of the 3 announcements about X-series services and the associated flatrate data plan. The consensus is that this offering heralds a new era in mobile data services"

Techcrunch, 22.11.2006: Make Your Own Netvibes Modules With Dapper

Techcrunch, 22.11.2006: Make Your Own Netvibes Modules With Dapper
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Mashup creation tool Dapper announced today that its users can now easily create new modules from any data source for placement in the popular start page Netvibes. Dapper is a company that’s either glorifying screen scraping or leading the charge towards data portability, depending on your perspective."

Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 21.11.2006: The Spam Farms of the Social Web

Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 21.11.2006: The Spam Farms of the Social Web
by Niall Kennedy: "In this post I will break down the operations of one spam network utilizing social media technologies such as WordPress, Digg, del.icio.us, and more to climb the search results and generate revenue through ads and affiliate programs."

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 22.11.2006: Web, Internet, and Social Media Strategies

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 22.11.2006: Web, Internet, and Social Media Strategies
Jeremiah Owyang: "Brian and I talked about that many clients are going to need a mixture of the following three strategies to be sucessful in web endevours"

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Fortune, 20.11.2006: Personal recommendation software predicts consumer choice

Fortune, 20.11.2006: Personal recommendation software predicts consumer choice
by Jeffrey M. O'Brien: "Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer's heaven."

Wired Monkey Bites, 21.11.2006: Bringing Blogs to Big Business

Wired Monkey Bites, 21.11.2006: Bringing Blogs to Big Business
by Michael Calore: "Today, a new partnership was announced between Automattic, a company that hosts and supports WordPress blogs, and KnowNow, an enterprise RSS vendor. The two companies are launching a blog platform built for the big business market called KnowNow Wordpress Enterprise Edition."

Prescient Digital Media, 21.11.2006: Can you realize the potential of your CMS feature wish list?

Prescient Digital Media, 21.11.2006: Can you realize the potential of your CMS feature wish list?
by Tom Marciniak: "It takes more than just picking CMS technology to leverage the value and continued use you want to get from cool new website features."

The Blog Herald, 21.11.2006: Wordpress goes Enterprise (SixApart cries in dark corner)

The Blog Herald, 21.11.2006: Wordpress goes Enterprise (SixApart cries in dark corner)
by Thord Hedengren: "In a not so surprising move, Wordpress is going enterprise with a special version being offered by KnowNow and Automattic. The special enterprise version will be sold by KnowNow and is called KnowNow Wordpress Enterprise Edition."

Friday, November 24, 2006

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 20.11.2006: Going Beyond User Generated Software: Web 2.0 and the Pragmatic Semantic Web

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 20.11.2006: Going Beyond User Generated Software: Web 2.0 and the Pragmatic Semantic Web
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "So while much of the end-user mashup activity we see today is probably shallow and don't represent sophisticated functionality, the new tools we're seeing every day are getting better and better and allowing users to take it deeper, creating a true mashup ecosystem."

Many-to-Many, 20.11.2006: Social Facts, Expertise, Citizendium, and Carr

Many-to-Many, 20.11.2006: Social Facts, Expertise, Citizendium, and Carr
by Clay Shirky: "I want to offer a less telegraphic account of the relationship between expertise, credentials, and authority than I did in Larry Sanger, Citizendium, and the Problem of Expertise, and then say why I think the cost of coordination in the age of social software favors Wikipedia over Citizendium, and over traditionally authoritative efforts such as Britannica."

VentureBeat, 20.11.2006: The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity

VentureBeat, 20.11.2006: The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity
by Matt Marshall: "Collarity is yet another Silicon Valley search engine start-up that wants to personalize your search results."

Fractals of Change, 20.11.2006: Sometimes the Future Takes a Long Time to Come

Fractals of Change, 20.11.2006: Sometimes the Future Takes a Long Time to Come
by Tom Evslin: "Tim O’Reilly posted today about the significance of threadless.com, which he calls a “crowd-sourced” manufacturing business. Users submit designs for t-shirts; users vote designs up or down; the most popular ones get manufactured."

Thursday, November 23, 2006

ITSinsider, 13.11.2006: McAfee’s “Empty Quarter,” mind meld, and backlash.

ITSinsider, 13.11.2006: McAfee’s “Empty Quarter,” mind meld, and backlash.
by Susan Scrupski: "ut like I told Dion Hinchcliffe a while back… be prepared for the backlash. As talk of real Enterprise 2.0 starts trickling outside the echo chamber, we’re going to start seeing some real negativity. Rod Boothby and Tom Davenport were debating its merits here. And McAfee got slashdotted here for his efforts in evangelizing."

Trends in the Living Networks, 19.11.2006: The relevance of knowledge management today

Trends in the Living Networks, 19.11.2006: The relevance of knowledge management today
by Ross Dawson: "What has struck me over the last years is that while knowledge management is not perceived as a highly dynamic space, the skills and capabilities that were developed in the 1990s and beyond within the knowledge management movement are immensely relevant today and in the future."

alexbarnett.net blog, 19.11.2006: Tagging behind the firewall - a case study

alexbarnett.net blog, 19.11.2006: Tagging behind the *firewall* - a case study
by Alex Barnett: "Since employees are using the AARF tag to share content with other employees and they are doing so on public sites such as del.icio.us, I can also see what AARF employees are bookmarking and sharing with other AARF employees."

The Next Net, 19.11.2006: Yahoo's Peanut Butter Problem

The Next Net, 19.11.2006: Yahoo's Peanut Butter Problem
by Erick Schonfeld: "The blogoshere is abuzz with a leaked memo written in October by Yahoo senior VP Brad Garlinghouse dubbed the Peanut Butter Manifesto. In it he warns that Yahoo is spread too thin and is all over the place."

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

HBS Faculty Blog, 18.11.2006: Now THAT's What I'm Talking About!

HBS Faculty Blog, 18.11.2006: Now THAT's What I'm Talking About!
by Andrew McAfee: "What I found most interesting about the company was its own Intranet. To hear David, Ray, and Amy tell it, the company's traditional static Intranet -- the place where an employee would go to look up benefits information or peruse the latest press releases -- still exists, but has been marginalized by a suite of Enterprise 2.0 tools."

O'Reilly Radar, 18.11.2006: Insight into Future Business Models

O'Reilly Radar, 18.11.2006: Insight into Future Business Models
by Tim O'Reilly: "Just as software is rapidly becoming free, while the services provided by that software are monetized by other means (advertising, subscription, or even, in traditional companies, maintenance), so too may 'stuff' of all kinds (not just cell phones and gaming consoles) join the ranks of products supported by new business models."

ZDNet.com, Digital Micro-Markets, 14.11.2006: Google Enterprise strategy: ‘Death to the hierarchy’

ZDNet.com, Digital Micro-Markets, 14.11.2006: Google Enterprise strategy: ‘Death to the hierarchy’
by Donna Bogatin: "The “Google Enterprise Seminar in a Box” Search Appliance multi-state road show landed in New York today and about 200 executives from corporate, government and not-for-profit organizations attentively listened to Michael Lock, Director of North American Sales for Google Enterprise, making the Google case for enterprise search."

CNET News.com, 17.11.2006: Gates on Vista, Linux and more

CNET News.com, 17.11.2006: Gates on Vista, Linux and more
by Ina Fried: "Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark."

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

The Next Net, 17.11.2006: Web 2.0's Enterprise Wave

The Next Net, 17.11.2006: Web 2.0's Enterprise Wave
by Erick Schonfeld: "But lately I’ve noticed that some newcomers are gaining traction delivering Web 2.0 software to corporations. These include Zimbra, Success Factors, and Rearden Commerce (which just got a $22.5 million investment from American Express)."

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 18.11.2006: Business Blogging still a Mystery to Corporate America

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 18.11.2006: Business Blogging still a Mystery to Corporate America
by Jeremiah Owyang: "Sally over at the Business Blog Consulting reports that many companies within Corporate America still don’t get blogging. This is probally true across a cross section of non-tech companies."

The Blog Herald, 18.11.2006: The ROI of Blogging at

The Blog Herald, 18.11.2006: The ROI of Blogging at
by Tony Hung: "It sounds like the substance of their data includes analyzing 9 fortune 1000 bogs, and interviewing 5 “thought leaders”. Li and Stromberg acknowledge that measuring the ROI of blogs can be a tricky thing, since the metrics will depend on what the purpose of the blog is for."

Micro Persuasion, 17.11.2006: More Bloggers Turn Pro, But They Better Diversify

Micro Persuasion, 17.11.2006: More Bloggers Turn Pro, But They Better Diversify
by Steve Rubel: "The Economist has a brief article up about some high bloggers that have quit their day jobs to turn pro. Before you join them consider that there is simply not enough advertising revenue to go around. There are lots of people - including start-ups - that covet the same pie."

Monday, November 20, 2006

GigaOM, 16.11.2006: Social Media is not Mass Media

GigaOM, 16.11.2006: Social Media is not Mass Media
by Robert Young: "I firmly believe it is equally reasonable to assume that a big chunk, if not a majority, of future ad spending will go into online ad models & formats that do not yet exist."

webpronews.com, 16.11.2006: Your Organization s Social Media Score

webpronews.com, 16.11.2006: Your Organization s Social Media Score
by Rohit Bhargava: "John Bell, founder of our 360 Digital Influence group here at Ogilvy has a great post on his blog about helping organizations understand how to approach social media as part of their overall marketing communications efforts."

Intranet Blog, 17.11.2006: Open source solutions

Intranet Blog, 17.11.2006: Open source solutions
by Toby Ward: "Delloite Research believes open source is one of the hottest trends unfolding in all of technology. In it’s annual TMT Trends: Technology Predictions 2006 Delloite states that “open source will pose an ever-greater challenge to the established software model"