eMedia News: 2008

Saturday, December 27, 2008

CIO - Blogs and Discussion, 23.12.2008: Web 2.0, Social Networks in '09: The Year of Consolidation, Not Innovation

CIO - Blogs and Discussion, 23.12.2008: Web 2.0, Social Networks in '09: The Year of Consolidation, Not Innovation
by C.G. Lynch: "In 2009, Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks will continue to be used by people both at home and work. But I think most consumer-based social networks will struggle toward profitability, and consolidation in the enterprise Web 2.0 market could hamper innovation around those tools, too."

Friday, December 19, 2008

CMSWire, 18.12.2008: 2009 Predictions for Web CMS, ECM, Mobile, MOSS and more

CMSWire, 18.12.2008: 2009 Predictions for Web CMS, ECM, Mobile, MOSS and more
by Barb Mosher: "Like the 12 days of Christmas, CMS Watch has chosen to offer up 12 predictions for the technology world for 2009."

Thursday, December 04, 2008

HBS Faculty Blogs, 01.12.2008: The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan

HBS Faculty Blogs, 01.12.2008: The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Planby Andrew McAfee: "The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan
Recent events in the news have inspired a thought experiment: I asked myself what I would do if I were put in charge of IT as part of the turnaround effort at a big US automaker."

Sunday, November 30, 2008

O'Reilly Radar, 29.11.2008: Why I Love Twitter

O'Reilly Radar, 29.11.2008: Why I Love Twitter
by Tim O'Reilly: "I soon realized that Twitter has grown up to become a critical business tool, ideal for following the latest news, tracking the ideas and whereabouts of people who will shape the future of technology, and sharing my own thoughts and attention stream."

Friday, November 28, 2008

Trends in the Living Networks, 24.11.2008: Quick review of Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World event

Trends in the Living Networks, 24.11.2008: Quick review of Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World event
by Ross Dawson: "Oof! Well hopefully my last 13 blog posts as I chaired ONSBCW over the last two days have been useful to people, and not annoyed any faithful readers."

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Harvard Business School, 25.11.2008: Andyasks , and Hopes for Answers

Harvard Business School, 25.11.2008: Andyasks , and Hopes for Answers
by Andrew McAfee: "So I’m combining my penchant for asking questions with my desire to learn more about Twitter, yielding a tremendously exciting wink new initiative called 'andyasks'. I’ll tweet at least one question a day, and people can reply with their answers."

Monday, November 24, 2008

The Social Organization, 21.11.2008: The Importance of Social Networking to Information Work

The Social Organization, 21.11.2008: The Importance of Social Networking to Information Work
by Rachel Happe: "What instigates collaboration in the first place? What is the actionable results from the collaboration? Who and what are the actors in collaboration and how trustworthy are they? When are formal processes appropriate and when are more informal processes needed?"

Sunday, November 23, 2008

SocialText, 21.11 2008: Six Steps to Company-Wide Adoption

SocialText, 21.11 2008: Six Steps to Company-Wide Adoption
by Michael Idinopulos: "That calls for a very different approach to adoption. Last year, everyone was asking what makes for successful social software pilots. Now it's time to answer the question at a strategic, company-wide level: How can forward-thinking managers use integrated social software suites like Socialtext 3.0 to garner adoption across their entire companies?"

Saturday, November 22, 2008

ReadWriteWeb, 21.11.2008: Is SaaS Cheaper Than Licensed Software?

ReadWriteWeb, 21.11.2008: Is SaaS Cheaper Than Licensed Software?
by Jason Rothbart: "Most people quickly answer this question in the affirmative. I certainly do. However, there are people out there who aren't sure. They look at the monthly cost of a SaaS application and compare it to the equivalent licensed product over an extended period of time. Given enough time, you will eventually hit a point when the SaaS product appears to be more expensive. Let's look at it from the perspective of the total cost of ownership (TCO)."

Thursday, November 06, 2008

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 04.11.2008: Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 04.11.2008: Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap
by Larry Dignan: "The state of enterprise 2.0 reveals spotty progress and a separation between key technologies. For instance, wikis are in, podcasts are out and blogs are somewhere in between within the corporation."

Monday, October 13, 2008

The FASTForward Blog, 10.10.2008: In uncertain times, Enterprise 2.0 takes the stage: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

The FASTForward Blog, 10.10.2008: In uncertain times, Enterprise 2.0 takes the stage: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
by Jevon MacDonald: "For many people the positioning of Enterprise 2.0 as a cost reduction engine is not new. Complexity reduction, efficiency increases and fast response times have been the cornerstone of many Enterprise Social Software pitches in the last 5 years."

Saturday, October 04, 2008

I’m Not Actually a Geek, 01.10.2008: Tim O’Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0

I’m Not Actually a Geek, 01.10.2008: Tim O’Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0
by Hutch Carpenter: "I define Web 2.0 as the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them, or more colloquially, as “harnessing collective intelligence.” This includes explicit network-enabled collaboration, to be sure, but it should encompass every way that people connected to a network create synergistic effects."

Sunday, September 28, 2008

The FASTForward Blog, 25.09.2008: Enterprise 2.0 Vendors need to get more serious about mobile

The FASTForward Blog, 25.09.2008: Enterprise 2.0 Vendors need to get more serious about mobile
by Jevon MacDonald: "The truth is that the most successful Enterprise 2.0 applications will focus heavily on mobile and will take in to consideration the considerably different use cases related to how different functions use mobile devices."

Friday, September 26, 2008

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 24.09.2008: Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 24.09.2008: Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?
by Larry Dignan: "Cisco on Wednesday rolled out its collaboration portfolio as it targets the enterprise market–and notably the Microsoft SharePoint juggernaut."

Thursday, September 11, 2008

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 16.07.2008: Social Media in the Inc. 500: The First Longitudinal Study

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Marketing Research, 16.07.2008: Social Media in the Inc. 500: The First Longitudinal Study
by Eric Mattson, Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D.: "The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently conducted one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media in corporations."

Monday, September 08, 2008

CTO Blog, 01.09.2008: The 2 Magics and the Hype Cycle

The 2 Magics and the Hype Cycle | CTO Blog | Capgemini | Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing
by Carl Bate: "For a little while now I’ve been considering how the Gartner Hype Cycle relates to the post-Web world, and how it might be useful for strategic planning for 21st century information systems."

ReadWriteWeb, 06.09.2008: Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries

Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries - ReadWriteWeb
by Sarah Perez: "Today, if you're not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies' impact on business, then you're just not staying current."

Thursday, June 12, 2008

InformationWeek.com, 11.06.2008: Enterprise 2.0: Power To The People

InformationWeek.com, 11.06.2008: Enterprise 2.0: Power To The People
by Cora Nucci: "Now the next disruptive technology is upon us: Enterprise 2.0. But how will all this collaborative productivity be measured, and just as important: how will these measurements translate to compensation?"

Monday, June 02, 2008

Yahoo! News, 02.06.2008: IBM Reveals Jazz Product Launch Wave

Yahoo! News, 02.06.2008: IBM Reveals Jazz Product Launch Wave
by Chris Kanaracus: "Team Concert 1.0, the first commercial product derived from IBM's Jazz platform for collaborative development, will be available on June 30, with nearly 20 related offerings from IBM and partners set to ship by the end of 2008, the company announced Monday."

Sunday, June 01, 2008

The Business Of IT, 30.05.2008: Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies

The Business Of IT, 30.05.2008: Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies
by Dr. Jim Anderson: "The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years"

Saturday, May 03, 2008

New York Times, 03.05.2008: Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence

New York Times, 03.05.2008: Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
by John Markoff: "Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of probabilities."

Friday, May 02, 2008

Infoworld Enterprise Desktop, 01.05.2008: Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps? | May 1, 2008 11:23 AM | Randall Kennedy

Infoworld Enterprise Desktop, 01.05.2008: Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps? | May 1, 2008 11:23 AM | Randall Kennedy
by Randall C. Kennedy: "Microsoft's recently (at the time) acquired SoftGrid technology. I saw the acquisition as a clear sign that Microsoft was gearing up to deliver a subscriptions-based, hosted licensing model for Microsoft Office."

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Forbes.com, 01.05.2008: The iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand

Forbes.com, 01.05.2008: The iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand
by Brian Caulfield: "Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) is knitting together a broad coalition of companies around a vision of computing that goes far beyond today's hot-selling iPhone and toward a future that combines wireless broadband and touch-sensitive interfaces with built-in motion sensors."

Monday, April 21, 2008

ReadWriteWeb, 20.04.2008: Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013

ReadWriteWeb, 20.04.2008: Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013
by Sarah Perez: "A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years."

Sunday, April 13, 2008

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "instead of just offering applications over the Web in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Amazon and Google are actually offering an entire Platform-as-a-Service because they provide the foundational upon which to build highly scalable and robust Web-based applications"

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Micro Persuasion, 12.02.2008: The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites

Micro Persuasion, 12.02.2008: The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites
by Steve Rubel: "The leading players on the web all see the train coming. They are wisely creating APIs and turning themselves into plug-and-play services, not just big destinations."

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

HBS Faculty Blogs, 22.02.2008: What's Most Important for Success with Enterprise 2.0?

HBS Faculty Blogs, 22.02.2008: What's Most Important for Success with Enterprise 2.0?
by Andrew McAfee: "I spoke earlier this week at the FASTForward conference in Orlando, and used the opportunity to toss out some conjectures about the factors that differentiate successful Enterprise 2.0 deployments from unsuccessful ones."

Monday, March 10, 2008

The AppGap, 07.03.2008: Beyond Web 2.0: News, views, and reviews of Work 2.0 tools, apps and practices

The AppGap, 07.03.2008: Beyond Web 2.0: News, views, and reviews of Work 2.0 tools, apps and practices
by Matthew Hodgson: "We’re just starting to see that now with Web 2.0 — pushing the boundaries of information sharing from centralised and controlled by organisations to decentralised, collaborative and controlled by consumers."

Friday, March 07, 2008

37signals, 07.03.2008: iPhone SDK, Apple's Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades

37signals, 07.03.2008: iPhone SDK, Apple's Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades
by Jason Fried: "What we saw today was the beginning of two-decades of mobile domination by Apple. What Microsoft and Windows was to the desktop, Apple and Touch will be to mobile."

Friday, February 08, 2008

InfoQ, 15.01.2008: Open Source Flex Development Frameworks Show that Platform is Gaining Momentum

InfoQ, 15.01.2008: Open Source Flex Development Frameworks Show that Platform is Gaining Momentum
by Moxie Zhang: "Adobe Flex and the technologies surrounding it are becoming mainstream in the RIA space. This has resulted in the creation of a number of open source developer frameworks:"

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 04.02.2008:openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 04.02.2008:openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "Enterprises will be able to manage the growing problem of the proliferation of accounts created in external, off premises Web apps."

Monday, January 21, 2008

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.01.2008: Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.01.2008: Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?
by Phil Wainewright: "If the world is converging on The Big Switch to utility computing, then where are the telcos? As utility providers of the access and transmission infrastructure of the Internet, you’d think they’d be at the forefront of the SaaS revolution."

Thursday, January 17, 2008

The FASTForward Blog, 14.01.2008: Where is Internal IT Going?

The FASTForward Blog, 14.01.2008: Where is Internal IT Going?
by Bill Ives: "Nitin Karandikar raises some interesting points about IT outsourcing and the increasing complexity of the outsourcing value chain. If the outside partners become more strategic, will they become tied to one enterprise so the chain becomes simply an extension of the enterprise for accounting purposes?"

Portals and KM, 11.01.2008: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories, The Best from 2007

Portals and KM, 11.01.2008: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories, The Best from 2007
Good collection of Enterprise 2.0 related Links
by Bill Ives: "People are often looking for examples of Enterprise 2.0 successes. I am seeing a growing number of examples and wanted to collect them in one post. This is an update from September to complete the best for 2007. Here they are in a somewhat random order and I will add to this list as I encounter more."

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Web Strategy by Jeremiah , 14.01.2007: 10 Considerations for the Startup planning to offer to the Enterprise (and why many will fail)

Web Strategy by Jeremiah , 14.01.2007: 10 Considerations for the Startup planning to offer to the Enterprise (and why many will fail)
by Jeremiah Owyang: "While many startups are interested to offer their services to Enterprise companies, they underestimate the complexity. There are many overlooked requirements from culture to support that startups just don’t get"

Monday, January 14, 2008

New York Times, 13.01.2008: From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year

New York Times, 13.01.2008: From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year
by R. Stross: "MARKUS FRIND, a 29-year-old Web entrepreneur, has developed software for his online dating site, Plenty of Fish, that operates almost completely on autopilot, leaving Mr. Frind plenty of free time. On average, he puts in about a 10-hour workweek."

Friday, January 11, 2008

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 10.01.2008: Rich Internet application predictions for 2008

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 10.01.2008: Rich Internet application predictions for 2008
by Ryan Stewart: "2007 was a great year for rich Internet applications. We also saw a lot of traction in the enterprise space with companies like Oracle and SAP looking to augment their user experience with rich Internet applications. 2008 is going to be even better and here’s why."

Monday, January 07, 2008

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.01.2008: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.01.2008: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we’ll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the year that enterprises refit themselves for the 21st century."