eMedia News: 11/01/2006

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"

Innovation Creators, 15.11.2006: itensil's Revolutionary Wikiflow

Innovation Creators, 15.11.2006: itensil's Revolutionary Wikiflow
by Rod Boothby: "A small start-up called itensil has gone a long way to solving all there problems by adding work-flow to a wiki. Now you can easily combine 'knowledge work' with structured work-flows."

Sunday, November 19, 2006

The Next Net, 16.11.2006: Critical Mention—Bringing TV to the Web

The Next Net, 16.11.2006: Critical Mention—Bringing TV to the Web
by Erick Schonfeld: "In the last issue of B2.0, I wrote about a startup called Critical Mention that is doing some amazing things with video search (through CriticalTV) and syndicating clips (through ClipSyndicate) of local TV news on the Web."

NevilleHobson.com, 16.11.2006: Pearson to publish book via wiki

NevilleHobson.com, 16.11.2006: Pearson to publish book via wiki
by Neville Hobson: "In a move that could shake up the book industry, publishing giant Pearson is joining with two top business schools to create a business book authored and edited by anyone who cares to contribute via a wiki, The Wall Street Journal reports today"

The Blog Herald, 16.11.2006: Is “Googling” Social Networks The Next Big Thing?

The Blog Herald, 16.11.2006: Is “Googling” Social Networks The Next Big Thing?
by Darnell Clayton: "If you ever thought sites like Technorati were cool, then Web 2.0 fans may enjoy a new site called Wink, that allows users to search for people’s profiles across several social networks."

Ryan Stewart, 16.11.2006: Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » What Google Trends Says About Rich Internet Applications

Ryan Stewart, 16.11.2006: Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » What Google Trends Says About Rich Internet Applications
by Ryan Stewart: "Google Trends is always kind of fun to play around with, but for some reason I hadn’t ever thrown in the various Rich Internet Application technologies."

Saturday, November 18, 2006

webpronews.com, 15.11.2006: Why BPM

webpronews.com, 15.11.2006: Why BPM
by Bahattin Gerecci: "As businesses become more sophisticated internally and interconnected externally, managers phrase BPM more often to address a need for IT systems to respond to this ever-changing business landscape at least at the same pace of change."
Tags: enterprise, bpm, itarchitecture

The Jason Calacanis Weblog, 15.11.2006: The real story of Web 2.0: Advertising 2.0

The Jason Calacanis Weblog, 15.11.2006: The real story of Web 2.0: Advertising 2.0
by Jason Calacanis: "The real story of Web 2.0 has little to do with the bells and whistles and everything to do with the stunning growth of online advertising."
Tags: advertising, web2.0, research, marketing

EContentMag.com, 15.11.2006: Introduction: 2006 EContent 100

EContentMag.com, 15.11.2006: Introduction: 2006 EContent 100
by Michelle Manafy: "Welcome to the sixth annual EContent 100—our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry."

Intranet Blog, 14.11.2006: Portals found lacking

Intranet Blog, 14.11.2006: Portals found lacking
by Toby Ward: "CMS Watch’s 2nd Edition of the Enterprise Portals Report finds that enterprise portal solutions are still very difficult to use and that customers must invest substantial resources to create usable and accessible user interfaces (thanks to Jane McConnell for reminding me about this)."

Friday, November 17, 2006

David Rowe, 14.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0: The ships are loaded, sails are set...

David Rowe, 14.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0: The ships are loaded, sails are set...
by David Rowe: "Throughout the research and writing, I came to the conclusion that Microsoft are in fact uniquely positioned to enable broad adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities."

Innovation Creators, 13.11.2006: Web 3.0 - Humanity Vs. the Machines

Innovation Creators, 13.11.2006: Web 3.0 - Humanity Vs. the Machines
by Rod Boothby: "John Markoff has an interesting article in the NY Times entitled Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense.
The bottom line: Web 3.0 = The semantic web."

adaptive path, 13.11.2006: IA: More Than Just Rearranging Marketing Sites

adaptive path, 13.11.2006: IA: More Than Just Rearranging Marketing Sites
by Chiara Fox: "But for me, information architecture and interaction design have always been very closely intertwined. Where does one stop and the other begin? It’s often hard to tell and in the end, does it really matter?"

The Next Net, 13.11.2006: IBM's $100 Million Brainstorm

The Next Net, 13.11.2006: IBM's $100 Million Brainstorm
by Erick Schonfeld: "At IBM, brainstorming is now a company wide affair. Over the past few months, more than 150,000 employees, business partners, and clients have been coming up with new business ideas for IBM to pursue in a series of 'Innovation Jams' and smaller face-to-face meetings."

Thursday, November 16, 2006

alexbarnett.net blog, 13.11.2006: Web 2.0, Tech and Online Media - Predictions for 2007

alexbarnett.net blog, 13.11.2006: Web 2.0, Tech and Online Media - Predictions for 2007
by Alex Barnett: "It's only mid November and I've found plenty of opinions already predicting 2007 trends for the web (2.0) / tech / online media markets. I've listed some of my finds below. No doubt I'll come across few more before the end of the year and so as per last year, I'll update this page from time to time as I find more."

Minding the Planet, 12.11.2006: Does the Semantic Web = Web 3.0?

Minding the Planet, 12.11.2006: Does the Semantic Web = Web 3.0?
by Nova Spivack: "John Markoff's New York Times article discusses the term 'Web 3.0' and equates it with the next evolution of the Web, in which he predicts a move towards more intelligent applications."

social network sites: my definition. Many-to-Many:

social network sites: my definition. Many-to-Many:: "A “social network site” is a category of websites with profiles, semi-persistent public commentary on the profile, and a traversable publicly articulated social network displayed in relation to the profile."

The Mu Life, 12.11.2006: Visualizing Social Bookmarking Data

The Mu Life, 12.11.2006: Visualizing Social Bookmarking Data
by Tanner Godarzi: "All three of the major social bookmarking sites have their own unique ways of getting the news to the users. Each site is primarily differentiated from the other in how it uses its visualization model to display the information to users"

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

adaptive path, 10.11.2006: organizing your global corporate intranet

adaptive path, 10.11.2006: organizing your global corporate intranet
by Indi Young: "In our line of business, we’re often asked to help corporations reorganize their employee intranets. With the permission of our generous clients, here are some examples of best practices that you can use as a guide the next time you tackle an intranet redesign."

Intranet Blog, 10.11.2006: Employee discounts drive intranet traffic

Intranet Blog, 10.11.2006: Employee discounts drive intranet traffic
by Toby Ward: "Most intranets, however, are not fully utilized by the employee population at large. Raise your hand if you wish you could only attract more employees to use the intranet. More than 90% of you just raised your hand."

HBS Faculty Blog, 11.11.2006: Comments and Questions after Getting Slashdotted

HBS Faculty Blog, 11.11.2006: Comments and Questions after Getting Slashdotted
by Andrew McAfee: "As I looked over the comments appearing beneath HBR article's summary on Slashdot, in contrast, I wondered how many posters had bothered to read the article at all (this would not have been hard; the full text is available online free of charge during November). And if they had read it, I had a deeper concern: did I not make it clear enough that the article was not in any sense about managing IT professionals or software development efforts?"

Ajaxian, 11.111.2006: Phobos: Does Sun have a good thing under its nose?

Ajaxian, 11.111.2006: Phobos: Does Sun have a good thing under its nose?
by Dion Almaer: "There have been a lot of discussions on JavaScript on the server side, which naturally comes up as an idea. Instead of programming in Java, PHP, or Ruby, and having mechanisms to generate JavaScript (GWT, rails helpers, etc), maybe we will end up developing end to end in JavaScript?"

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

alexbarnett.net blog, 10.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change

alexbarnett.net blog, 10.11.2006: Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change
by Alex Barnett: "Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School has identified a user segment within organizations that he describes as the 'Empty Quarter'. The context is within the types of users who become the early adopters of Enterprise 2.0' applications"

Lifehacker, 10.11.2006: Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office

Lifehacker, 10.11.2006: Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office
by Gina Trapani: "Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani posts on her favorite “placeless office” tools: Campfire, MediaWiki, Gmail, Google Calendar, Wists/del.icio.us, Google Docs. They are fairly specific to running a blog, but it’s a good roundup for anyone trying to coordinate a virtual company."

FC Now, 10.11.2006: The Big Theme at Web 2.0

FC Now, 10.11.2006: The Big Theme at Web 2.0
by Scott Kirsner: "The big theme at this year's Web 2.0 Summit was never mentioned on-stage. It wasn't related to any of the buzzwords uttered in the hallways: tagging, social media, Ajax, or viral video.
The big theme, as I read it, was paranoia."

Read/Write Web, 10.11.2006: Web 2.0 Summit Wrap-up

Read/Write Web, 10.11.2006: Web 2.0 Summit Wrap-up
by Richard MacManus: "It's the end of a hectic week of conference-going for your R/WW correspondent - and so time for a wrap-up of my thoughts on the Web 2.0 Summit. Firstly, my overriding feeling is that this year's conference was a lot different from last year's."

Monday, November 13, 2006

O'Reilly Radar, 10.11.2006: Harnessing Collective Intelligence

O'Reilly Radar, 10.11.2006: Harnessing Collective Intelligence
by Tim O'Reilly: "I've long made the assertion that one of the central differences between the PC era and the Web 2.0 era is that once the internet becomes platform, rather than just an add-on to the PC, you can build applications that harness network effects"

Open Gardens, 09.11.2006: Mobile2.0: great showcase and a grassroots revolution ..

Open Gardens, 09.11.2006: Mobile2.0: great showcase and a grassroots revolution ..
by Dr Paddy Byers: "Most people I spoke to felt that they were witnessing the beginning of a new era of mobile services – there was a clear consensus that mobile will drive the future usage models for web businesses and it makes no sense to discuss one without discussing the other."

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 09.11.2006: Web 2.0 Summit: Leading Players Facing Challenges, Push for Openness

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 09.11.2006: Web 2.0 Summit: Leading Players Facing Challenges, Push for Openness
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "Given that the Web 2.0 Summit is an executive level conference, the discussion of business models and company strategies around Web 2.0 has dominated the conversation and not the specific techniques and approaches for actually designing and implementing Web 2.0 services and products."

businessweek.com, 09.11.2006: Intel: Wooing Business Via the Web

businessweek.com, 09.11.2006: Intel: Wooing Business Via the Web
by Catherine Holahan: "The investment arm of the chip giant is gathering some of the smartest innovators from Web 2.0 to create a suite of publishing, posting, and newsgathering programs"

Sunday, November 12, 2006

HBS Faculty Blog, 07.11.2006: Evangelizing in the Empty Quarter

HBS Faculty Blog, 07.11.2006: Evangelizing in the Empty Quarter
by Andrew McAfee: "Lots of recent observations, conversations, case visits, and anecdotes about the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 tools are starting to yield some conclusions. It seems that when companies make these technologies widely available behind the firewall, the only two groups that quickly start using them are techies and newbies."

NEO Binaries, 08.11.2006: The most popular Enterprise Collaborative Information management services compared for Enterprise usability

NEO Binaries, 08.11.2006: The most popular Enterprise Collaborative Information management services compared for Enterprise usability
by sandip: "Information is ever changing. And it comes from many sources. Information or knowledge which can be quickly updated, edited, is very crucial for users. In such a situation Blogs and Wikis seem to be the perfect solution for today’s user-generated content scenario."

Intranet Blog, 08.11.2006: The intranet as an employee retention tool

Intranet Blog, 08.11.2006: The intranet as an employee retention tool
by Toby Ward: "It’s a buyer’s market. There is a shortage of skilled workers and we all know it. In fact, while the shortage is estimated at a couple of million workers in the U.S. alone, the shortage is increasing rapidly and expected to grow to 14 million by 2020."

The Next Net, 07.11.2006: Web 2.0 Startup Roundup

The Next Net, 07.11.2006: Web 2.0 Startup Roundup
by Erick Schonfeld: "With the Web 2.0 conference going on this week, Dow Jones VentureOne put out a timely release (Excel download here, PDF here) stating that Web 2.0 startups raised $455.5 million in 79 deals in the first three quarters of this year, more than double last year's take during the same period."

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: SuiteTwo Launched: Enterprise 2.0 in a Box

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: SuiteTwo Launched: Enterprise 2.0 in a Box: "A small dream of mine came true today. We've been preaching an ecosystem of tools for some time now. We've helped customers stitch them together in interesting ways."

Read/Write Web, 07.11.2006: Adobe's World of Web/Desktop Integration

Read/Write Web, 07.11.2006: Adobe's World of Web/Desktop Integration: "I'm at a session at the Web 2.0 Summit called 'Breaking Free: Working with Real Time Data, Online, Offline, and Outside of the Browser'. The speaker is Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist from Adobe."

Niall Kennedy's Werblog, 07.11.20006: Widgets Live! wrap-up

Niall Kennedy's Werblog, 07.11.20006: Widgets Live! wrap-up
by Niall Kennedy: "Yesterday's Widgets Live! conference was a success! Over 200 people involved in the widget ecosystem came together to discuss the current state of the industry, show off their work, meet new people, and learn new things."

IBM Press room, 01.11.2006: IBM Lotus Expeditor Software Offers a Personalized User Experience Anytime, Anywhere - United States

IBM Press room, 01.11.2006: IBM Lotus Expeditor Software Offers a Personalized User Experience Anytime, Anywhere - United States
by Jennifer C. Clemente: "Built on Eclipse-Based Software, New Programming Framework Gives Developers an Expanded Marketplace"

Friday, November 10, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 06.11.2006: Enterprise Gap

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 06.11.2006: Enterprise Gap
by Ross Mayfield: "No Enterprise 2.0 company in their right mind would want to be an island, no matter the paradise. Most of us began working on interop even when our own apps were half-baked. RSS, Atom and other ad hoc standards proliferated."

Intranet Blog, 06.11.2006: Fixing a broken intranet

Intranet Blog, 06.11.2006: Fixing a broken intranet
by Toby Ward: "Redesigning an intranet does not mean you are fixing it; a broken intranet requires a lot of work and design is one of the smallest components. Far more important to the success of any intranet is people and process."

Read/Write Web, 06.11.2006: Homepage Widgets Panel at WidgetsLive: How Start Pages are Evolving

Read/Write Web, 06.11.2006: Homepage Widgets Panel at WidgetsLive: How Start Pages are Evolving
by Richard MacManus: "This WidgetsLive panel featured Adam Sah from Google Personalized Homepage, Sanaz Ahari from Microsoft's Live.com, and Tariq Krim from Netvibes."

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Risk magazine, October 2006 - Volume19/No10: Enterprise 2.0: the next generation

Risk magazine, October 2006 - Volume19/No10: Enterprise 2.0: the next generation
by Dan Spina: "A growing number of banks are using Web 2.0 technologies within their risk management, trading and research operations. Clive Davidson looks at how blogs, wikis and podcasts are being applied by financial services companies"

Enterprise Architecture, 07.11.2006: Thought Leadership: Gartner highlights Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2007

Enterprise Architecture, 07.11.2006: Thought Leadership: Gartner highlights Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2007
by James McGovern: "Gartner published their list, so I shall also publish mines...Anyway, my list is a little different and just a little deeper."

AMR Research, 03.11.2006: Workday Makes Its Debut

AMR Research, 03.11.2006: Workday Makes Its Debut
by Christa D. Manning: "Enterprise 2.0 Web 2.0 = Work 2.0 with the much anticipated release of Workday, the new “enterprise business services” company founded by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his friends. Now before you ask “What 2.0?” we can say in plain English that this is a next-generation business application platform developed with day-to-day line-of-business users in mind."

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Enterprise Architecture, 05.11.2006: Thought Leadership: Why Enterprise 2.0 is more important than consumer 2.0...

Enterprise Architecture, 05.11.2006: Thought Leadership: Why Enterprise 2.0 is more important than consumer 2.0...
by James McGovern: "Enterprise 2.0 is more important than consumer 2.0 but you wouldn't know it from conversations occuring in the blogosphere."

WEB DEVELOPER'S & DESIGNER'S JOURNAL, 04.11.2006: Beyond the Browser: The Next Generation of Rich Internet Applications

WEB DEVELOPER'S & DESIGNER'S JOURNAL, 04.11.2006: Beyond the Browser: The Next Generation of Rich Internet Applications
by Kevin Lynch: "Adobe's SVP & Chief Software Architect Maps the Future of the Web"

ZDNet.com, Open Source, 03.11.2006: Is the telephone apocalypse now?

ZDNet.com, Open Source, 03.11.2006: Is the telephone apocalypse now?
by Dana Blankenhorn: "... data VARs like All Covered are taking over the business phone market. 'It's a lot harder for the interconnects to learn the router than for the data VAR to learn the telephone."

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Read/Write Web, 03.11.2006: Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy

Read/Write Web, 03.11.2006: Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy
by Alex Iskold: "WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications. Amazon is at this point leading the charge of the big Internet companies to capture this potentially huge market."

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."