Friday, August 31, 2007

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.09.2007: A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.09.2007: A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "More than one large company has discovered that external customer communities provide better support to their own customers."

Linux News, 26.08.2007: Enterprise: Web 2.0's Place in the Enterprise

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."

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

a shel of my former self, 25.08.2007: KPMG misses an opportunity

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."

CIO Insight, 23.08.2007: CIOs Want Their Web 2.0 Applications

CIO Insight, 23.08.2007: CIOs Want Their Web 2.0 Applications
by Allan E. Alter: "We asked CIOs who participated in this month's Emerging Technologies Survey to tell us which Web 2.0 applications they use personally."

Friday, August 24, 2007

InfoWorld Special Report, 20.08.2007: The next big things in IT

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."

ThreeDimensionalPeople, 12.08.2007: Enterprise2.0 - what does it mean for mobile?

ThreeDimensionalPeople, 12.08.2007: Enterprise2.0 - what does it mean for mobile?
by Stephen Johnston: "In the past few weeks I’ve been having a number of interesting conversations about “Enterprise2.0”, what it means for mobility in general and for Nokia in particular."

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Future of Software, 17.08.2007: Service Providers 2.0: It’s All About Scale

The Future of Software, 17.08.2007: Service Providers 2.0: It’s All About Scale: "SaaS and Web 2.0 companies demonstrate every day that there’s real money to be made providing a myriad of services over the Internet, and if history is any indication, the service providers are taking notice."

O'Reilly radar, 17.08.2007: Predicting the Next Decade of Enterprise Software

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."

Friday, August 17, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.08.2007: SaaS invades enterprise software markets

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.08.2007: SaaS invades enterprise software markets
by Phil Wainewright: "New research from Gartner sees SaaS taking a growing slice of the enterprise software market, rising from $4.2 billion last year to $11.5 billion in 2011. That’s an average annual growth rate of around 22.3%."

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Business Edge News Magazine, 10.08.2007: Company bloggers can help put out fires

Business Edge News Magazine, 10.08.2007: Company bloggers can help put out fires
by Ian Harvey: "The blog became Dell's prime tool to communicate what it was doing, how it would handle recalls and what it knew about the problems almost as soon as the executive team managing the issue itself knew."

The FASTForward Blog, 08.08.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.

The FASTForward Blog, 08.08.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.
by Bill Ives: "In a recent post, I provided an overview of Awareness, an enterprise 2.0 platform for managing social media, formerly known as iUpload. Here some of the ways it is being used."

Monday, August 13, 2007

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 04.08.2007: Web Strategy Ownership: Enterprise 2.0 driven by Business or IT?

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 04.08.2007: Web Strategy Ownership: Enterprise 2.0 driven by Business or IT?
by Jeremiah Owyang: "It’s often thought that IT should be driving the strategy, but I’ve seen too many projects run by IT where the technology is selected in order to appease the systems requirements but not those of the business."

The FASTForward Blog, 03.08.2007: How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules

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."

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Ryan Stewart, 01.08.2007: Next Generation RIAs and the $700 Million Flash Aquisition

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."

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, 26.07.2007: How to Choose an RIA Path: AJAX or Adobe?

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, 26.07.2007: How to Choose an RIA Path: AJAX or Adobe?
by Jeffrey Hammond: "AJAX is the best bet for experienced Web development shops looking to incrementally evolve existing Web applications"

Saturday, August 04, 2007

CIO.com, 01.08.2007: Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS

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."

Thursday, August 02, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 31.07.2007: ROI, ROI, ROI

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."