Linux News, 26.08.2007: Enterprise: Web 2.0's Place in the Enterprise by Irwin Lazar: "The recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston served as a coming-out party, if you will, for all things Web 2.0. For many attendees, however, as well as those who followed the event on the countless blogs covering the conference, the term Web 2.0 has created as much confusion as hype."
a shel of my former self, 25.08.2007: KPMG misses an opportunity by Shel Holtz: "KPMG isn’t the first big services firm to recognize the value social media brings to business, but when a company of KPMG’s stature steps up and says, “This is important,” it’s a big deal."
InfoWorld Special Report, 20.08.2007: The next big things in IT About: "In the following 15 essays, InfoWorld’s bloggers and columnists are looking near-term, reading their tea leaves to identify “the next big thing” in disciplines from app dev to virtualization."
O'Reilly radar, 17.08.2007: Predicting the Next Decade of Enterprise Software by Tim O'Reilly: "Enterprise software consultancy Sandhill.com just published the results of an interesting survey entitled Predicting the Next Software Decade. This is info-porn rather than statistically significant, but the results are still very interesting."
The FASTForward Blog, 03.08.2007: How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules by Jerry Bowles: "Susan Scrupski and Nick Vitalardi had a conversation earlier this week about blogs, wikis and the rapid adoption of social media in enterprises during which Susan came up with the best list I’ve seen so far of how to be a successful blogger."
Ryan Stewart, 01.08.2007: Next Generation RIAs and the $700 Million Flash Aquisition by Ryan Stewart: "I hadn't realized that Club Penguin, the massive multiplayer online game that was acquired today by Disney, was done almost entirely in Flash. Club Penguin is targeted at the 6-14 year old demographic and it seems to be very well done."
CIO.com, 01.08.2007: Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS by Jacqueline Emigh: "The advent of Vista and Mac OS X, along with the ascension of Linux, add new dimensions to a long-time controversy. Now more than ever before, the Mac OS is the most cost effective operating system of all."
The FASTForward Blog, 31.07.2007: ROI, ROI, ROI by Joe McKendrick: "The problem with Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, of course, is that the benefits delivered are “soft” benefits; there are few examples of hard numbers to show ROI."