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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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."

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Next Net, 27.10.2006: The Disruptors Get Rowdy

The Next Net, 27.10.2006: The Disruptors Get Rowdy
by Erick Schonfeld: "Last night we held our Disruptors Roundtable ... Each person in the room had fierce opinions about the nature of disruption, what the definition is, and whether it's even something you should aim for intentionally."

Anne 2.0, 28.10.2006: Your Company is Not The Center of My World

Anne 2.0, 28.10.2006: Your Company is Not The Center of My World
by Anne Zelenka: "So many companies make the mistake of thinking they should be at the center of our business and personal lives. News flash: I am at the center of my life; your company is not."

Techcrunch, 26.10.2006: Vox Lifts Off and You’ll Love It

Techcrunch, 26.10.2006: Vox Lifts Off and You’ll Love It
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Six Apart announced last night the launch of its newest social networking site, Vox (Vox announcement here). The company that owns LiveJournal, Moveable Type and Typepad has done a lot of things right with this new site. The benefits of having waited for consumer desire to mature before launching a social networking site are clear in Vox."

Monday, October 30, 2006

Innovation Creators, 28.10.2006: A Platform for IT Innovation within the Enterprise

Innovation Creators, 28.10.2006: A Platform for IT Innovation within the Enterprise
by Rod Boothby: "The general consensus is that CIOs are not interested in any solution from a new start-up because they want accountability from the vendor. CIOs believe, though I am not sure this is 100% correct, that they will get better support from a large vendor."

SecurityFocus, 27.102006: Bot nets likely behind jump in spam

SecurityFocus, 27.102006: Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
by Robert Lemos: "A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used by spammers to stymie network defenses erected to curtail bulk e-mail."

ZDNet.com, Web 2.0 Explorer, 26.10.2006: Why Google apps will stay inside the browser

ZDNet.com, Web 2.0 Explorer, 26.10.2006: Why Google apps will stay inside the browser
by Richard MacManus: "Over time Google probably will do this, but as long as the web browser is the lowest common denominator Web platform - then Google will develop mainly for the browser. Here are my other reasons why I don’t see an RIA Google any time soon"

Sunday, October 29, 2006

paidContent, 27.10.2006: The Economics of Content - Adobe To Invest $100 Million In Digital Applications; Filo Online TV App; Adobe Digital Editions

paidContent, 27.10.2006: The Economics of Content - Adobe To Invest $100 Million In Digital Applications; Filo Online TV App; Adobe Digital Editions
by Rafat Ali: "Adobe, high after Macromedia integration and the exponential rise of Flash as a video platform, has said that it plans to spend $100 million in venture funding in the next 3-5 years to promote its software development platforms, with a particular focus on Apollo, which allows people to run Web applications without a browser."

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 25.10.2006: Nine ideas for IT managers considering Enterprise 2.0

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 25.10.2006: Nine ideas for IT managers considering Enterprise 2.0
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "Fortunately, though Enterprise 2.0, a corporate mirror held up to the bustle and vibrancy of mass information discovery and sharing on the Web, has a lot of challenges ahead of it, we are starting to see IT managers considering it."

redhat.com, 12.10.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Trendy term, real revolution

redhat.com, 12.10.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Trendy term, real revolution
by Jonathan Opp: "Essentially enterprises are beginning to take the best of web 2.0--both technology and philosophy--and applying it to their business."

Saturday, October 28, 2006

ZDNet.com, Software as services, 24.102006: Business services powered by SaaS

ZDNet.com, Software as services, 24.102006: Business services powered by SaaS
by Phil Wainewright: "One of the unspoken convergences of current times is the joining together of business service providers with on-demand application vendors."

Torrentfreak, 25.10.2006: A “Napster Moment” for TV Downloads at Torrentfreak

Torrentfreak, 25.10.2006: A “Napster Moment” for TV Downloads at Torrentfreak
by Ernesto: "The TIOTI project approach to socialize and optimize your TV Download experience. TIOTI combines great design, TV-torrent tracking, favorites, recommendations, RSS feeds, tagging, groups, wiki’s, and a lot more ‘Web 2.0? stuff."

Intranet Blog, 24.10.2006: Intranet case study: Verizon

Intranet Blog, 24.10.2006: Intranet case study: Verizon
by Toby Ward: "A successful intranet requires a lot of smart work, hard work, planning and technology. Verizon is a company with an intranet that embodies this success, but not at the expense of innovation."

Friday, October 27, 2006

Open Gardens, 24.10.2006: MOBILE user generated content and social networking worth 3.45 B this year

Open Gardens, 24.10.2006: MOBILE user generated content and social networking worth 3.45 B this year
by Ajit Jaokar: : "MOBILE user generated content and social networking worth 3.45 B this year according to the Communities dominate brands blog"

Adobe - Adobe Press Room, 24.10.2006: Adobe Showcases Emerging Technologies and Designer/Developer Workflows at MAX 2006 Conference

Adobe - Adobe Press Room, 24.10.2006: Adobe Showcases Emerging Technologies and Designer/Developer Workflows at MAX 2006 Conference
by Katie Juran: "Company Previews Pre-Release Apollo Project, Unveils New Application for Interacting with Digital Publications and Continues Mobile Market Momentum"

SearchCIO.com, 24.10.2006: IT execs eager to exploit Web 2.0 wave

SearchCIO.com, 24.10.2006: IT execs eager to exploit Web 2.0 wave
by Shamus McGillicuddy: "Blogs are often a company's first attempt at leveraging Web 2.0 technology, said Robin Hopper, CEO of iUpload, a Burlington, Ontario-based blogging platform vendor. But many others are struggling to determine how to get into this space."

Thursday, October 26, 2006

VentureBeat, 22.10.2006: Venture capitalists open spigot — especially for Web 2.0 & energy

VentureBeat, 22.10.2006: Venture capitalists open spigot — especially for Web 2.0 & energy
byy Matt Marshall: "For the third quarter in a row, U.S. venture capitalists poured more money into private companies than they did last year. They invested $6.36 billion in the third quarter, five percent more than last year. They backed 611 companies, two percent more."

paidContent - The Economics of Content, 23.10.2006: @ MMF: This Modular Life

paidContent - The Economics of Content, 23.10.2006: @ MMF: This Modular Life
by Rafat Ali: "Netvibes is one such service...stripped down to its most basic, it is a personalized homepage ..Nothing more, nothing less. Let’s stay on the believer’s side for a bit, because it sounds more exciting. Listen to Tariq Krim, describe it, and you understand why it should have been like this all this while."

MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience, 23.10.2006: Why value is slipping away from the operators

MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience, 23.10.2006: Why value is slipping away from the operators
by Marek Pawlowski: "I recently switched to a new handset, swapping my Sony Ericsson W900i for a Nokia N80. It was an instructive exercise which prompted me to think about several issues in the mobile telecoms industry: in particular, I was struck by how little added value my network operator (Vodafone) brought to the process."

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

A VC, 22.10.2006: Do You Have To Go To Mecca?

A VC, 22.10.2006: Do You Have To Go To Mecca?: "Randall Stross suggests in today's New York Times that Silicon Valley remains 'mecca' for tech startups. And he cites data that Silicon Valley has consistently drawn about 1/3 of all venture capital dollars in a given year."

Joi Ito's Web, 22.10.2006: Is YouTube "Web 2.0"?

Joi Ito's Web, 22.10.2006: Is YouTube "Web 2.0"?
by Joi Ito: "The innovation on the Web and the Internet is driven by what David Weinberger has called 'Small Pieces Loosely Joined' - a network created by small groups working together around open standards. It is and was a community of people and projects trying to connect to each other."

What Will You See Next?, 22.10.2006: Educators, Web 2.0 and the Content-Code Divide

What Will You See Next?, 22.10.2006: Educators, Web 2.0 and the Content-Code Divide
by Haydn Shaughnessy: "News that University of Arizona is building a Web 2.0 course module had me thinking about conversations I’ve had recently about education and the web."

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

deal architect, 20.10.2006: Look - still the Software 500!

deal architect, 20.10.2006: Look - still the Software 500!
by Vinnie Mirchandani: "Software Magazine has released its annual listing of the biggest 500 software (and services companies who write tons of code) vendors."

Trends in Web 2.0 by Dawn M. Foster, 28.09.2006: Social Software: Facilitating Innovation and Collaboration in the Enterprise

Trends in Web 2.0 by Dawn M. Foster, 28.09.2006: Social Software: Facilitating Innovation and Collaboration in the Enterprise
by Dawn M. Foster: "The challenge is to adapt and adopt different ways to stimulate and channel the creativity of high impact workers toward developing new ideas, collaborating across organizational boundaries, and establishing more effective virtual teams."

MobileCrunch, 21.10.2006: Want To See What Google’s Got For Mobile? Here Ya Go

MobileCrunch, 21.10.2006: Want To See What Google’s Got For Mobile? Here Ya Go
by Oliver Starr: "While I still don’t see the level of cohesion or organization that Yahoo’s mobile offering is delivering, Google nonetheless has some very useful and powerful mobile applications that would be a lot more useful to a lot more people if only they were easier to find."

Monday, October 23, 2006

Intranet Blog, 19.10.2006: Infant intranets need executive loving

Intranet Blog, 19.10.2006: Infant intranets need executive loving
by Toby Ward: "Intranets are still in their infancy, and they require more involvement from senior management. These are two of the major bang-on conclusions of Jane McConnell’s superb study on intranets ('Intranet Strategies Today & Tomorrow')."

Blog Business Summit, 20.10.2006: The Fortune 500 Business Blogging Project

Blog Business Summit: The Fortune 500 Business Blogging Project
by Teresa Valdez Klein: "this project is by bloggers and for bloggers. All the research will be done by people who are interested in the exciting world of business blogging. All the content will belong to the individual bloggers who do the research."

ZDNet.com, Web 2.0 Explorer, 19.10.2006: YouTube may be the fastest growing website ever!

ZDNet.com, Web 2.0 Explorer, 19.10.2006: YouTube may be the fastest growing website ever!
by Richard MacManus: "Jay Meattle of the web statistics firm compete has done an interesting analysis of the growth rates of MySpace vs YouTube. He concludes that YouTube's rate of growth exceeds that of MySpace - i.e. essentially it is more viral!."

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Techcrunch, 19.10.2006: Google Quantifies Its Momentum

Techcrunch, 19.10.2006: Google Quantifies Its Momentum
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Google faces questions about declining ad budgets, click fraud and product overload but the company’s dominance continues to grow. While Yahoo! and Microsoft are just starting to roll out their own contextual advertising strategies, Google remains a moving target."

Vinu’s Online Cloud, 17.10.2006: the 4 Cs

Vinu’s Online Cloud, 17.10.2006: the 4 Cs
by Vinu: "All the excitement in the internet world now (sometimes termed as Web 2.0) according to me can be summarised in 4 Cs:
* Content (Micro chunking. tagging)
* Connectivity (Communication, Mobility, RSS, Voip)
* Community (Collaboration, smart mobs, user generated content)
* Commerce (platform providers, Craigslist)"

Skype Journal, 18.10.2006: Skype Starts to Build US Traction

Skype Journal, 18.10.2006: Skype Starts to Build US Traction
by Jim Courtney: "With over double the registrations from two quarters ago, it certainly demonstrates that the free SkypeOut within North America is probably helping to build some traction but Skype remains essentially a non-US business with over 84% of registrants outside the US."

Saturday, October 21, 2006

CIO Insight, 17.10.2006: Are Enterprise Apps On the Way Out?

CIO Insight, 17.10.2006: Are Enterprise Apps On the Way Out?
by Allan E. Alter: "IT execs say most business functions can benefit from automation, but data integration problems must first be solved. That means stepping toward SOA and Web services—and away from suites like CRM and ERP."

Portals and KM, 18.10.2006: Web 2.0 Marketing and Marketing Research 2.0

Portals and KM, 18.10.2006: Web 2.0 Marketing and Marketing Research 2.0
by Bill Ives: "Marketing is another space getting turned inside out as Constantine von Hoffman conveys in A Marketer's Guide to Blogging. He writes, blogs and their cohorts in consumer-generated media (podcasts, community sites and the like) are here to stay."

Read/Write Web, 18.10.2006: Personalized News: A Market Overview

Read/Write Web, 18.10.2006: Personalized News: A Market Overview
by Emre Sokullu: "In this article, we will cover the personalized content approach and in particular reddit. We will describe the technical details and compare existing personalized content solutions."

Friday, October 20, 2006

Fractals of Change, 17.10.2006: Networked Citizen Journalists at Work

Fractals of Change, 17.10.2006: Networked Citizen Journalists at Work
by Tom Evslin: "Dan Gillmor, who wrote the definitive book on the subject, calls it “citizen journalism”. Jeff Jarvis, also an expert on media of all kinds, prefers “networked journalism” on the grounds that even traditional reporters are citizens."

Business Logs, 17.10.2006: Mistakes That Kill Startups

Business Logs, 17.10.2006: Mistakes That Kill Startups
by Mike Rundle: "Even though Paul Graham and I had some 'fun' in my Kiko synopsis, I obviously still respect his opinions. His latest entry, The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups is definitely worth a read, and in this entry I wanted to go over some of it."

Innovation Creators, 16.10.2006: Top 4 Myths of Office 2.0

Innovation Creators, 16.10.2006: Top 4 Myths of Office 2.0
by Rod Boothby: "During the Office 2.0 conference, the Enterprise Irregulars sat down with Charlene Li and G. Oliver Young of Forrester. It was an amazing session. Charlene asked what are the myths of Office 2.0. Here's what we came up with."

Thursday, October 19, 2006

HBS Faculty Blog, 16.10.2006: Boundary Spanning at Office 2.0

HBS Faculty Blog, 16.10.2006: Boundary Spanning at Office 2.0
by Andrew McAfee: "I spoke at the Office 2.0 conference last week; The highlight of the event for me was the chance to hear from and meet Esther Dyson. Esther sees a need for what she called "lightweight project management" or "lightweight workflow.""

The Village View, 17.10.2006: Office 2.0 - key takeaways

The Village View, 17.10.2006: Office 2.0 - key takeaways
by Mark Crofton: "I went to the Office 2.0 Conference last week. I thought the conference itself was well run; What follows are some "key takeaways." They are in no way MECE."

Google Blogoscoped, 16.10.2006: Where's Google Going?

Google Blogoscoped, 16.10.2006: Where's Google Going?
by Philipp Lenssen: "I’ve smoked some heavy (proverbial) stuff today, and here’s what I saw... a path into the future, extrapolated from the past... let me try to describe in colorful terms, because that’s how the picture presented itself to me..."

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Techcrunch, 15.10.2006: The Friendster Tell-All Story

Techcrunch, 15.10.2006: The Friendster Tell-All Story
by Michael Arrington: "Gary Rivlin at the New York Times finally wrote the Friendster “tell all” piece that everyone’s been threatening to do for some time (me included). It’s not pretty."

Open Gardens, 14.10.2006: The mathematics of Web 2.0 - Why don’t ALL social networking sites experience phenomenal growth?

Open Gardens, 14.10.2006: The mathematics of Web 2.0 - Why don’t ALL social networking sites experience phenomenal growth?
by Ajit Jaokar: "Social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube are growing at rates faster than the growth of the Internet itself – but not ALL social networking sites are showing very high rates of growth. How can we explain that?"

Ted On Flex, 15.10.2006: Web 2.0 is Distributed Internet Applications

Ted On Flex, 15.10.2006: Web 2.0 is Distributed Internet Applications
by Ted Patrick: "The applications driving Web 2.0 shift processing to the end users computer leveraging the idle distributed computing capability of web clients. We are entering the era of Distributed Internet Applications. These applications have all the benefits of desktop applications yet leverage the Internet while remaining easily deployable to a mass market. Here is my take on the trends we will see as distributed computing goes mainstream."

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories
by George Gilder: "The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age."

Moonwatcher, 14.10.2006: Two Views of Office 2.0

Moonwatcher, 14.10.2006: Two Views of Office 2.0
by Charlie Wood: "Raw thoughts on new apps vs new approaches to old apps."

Techcrunch, 14.10.2006: The Stars Align for The Venice Project

Techcrunch, 14.10.2006: The Stars Align for The Venice Project
by Michael Arrington: "The timing couldn’t be better for Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis to launch their new TV-based startup, The Venice Project."

Monday, October 16, 2006

Fractals of Change, 13.10.2006: Free International Calls! NOT Too Good to be True

Fractals of Change, 13.10.2006: Free International Calls! NOT Too Good to be True
by Tom Evslin: "NY Times technology blogger David Pogue posted about a company called Future Phone which offer free international calls to landlines in 54 countries around the world. I think I understand the arbitrage play which makes this profitable for Future Phone."

Venture Beat Contributors, 13.10.2006: The best of Office 2.0

Venture Beat Contributors, 13.10.2006: The best of Office 2.0
by Jeff Nolan: "There was a sense of determination and intent about the Office 2.0 meme that extends beyond hype. There are real companies with real and substantial products working here."

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 12.10.2006: Scoble on the Microsoft/Adobe showdown

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 12.10.2006: Scoble on the Microsoft/Adobe showdown
by Ryan Stewart: "I've talked before about the fact that the company who enables seamless collaboration between developers and designers will win. I think Adobe has a head start, but Microsoft is thinking about the problem and they're putting up a fight."

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Intranet Blog, 12.10.2006: Intranet case study: British Airways intranet

Intranet Blog, 12.10.2006: Intranet case study: British Airways intranet
by Toby Ward: "Alan Huish, Employee Self Service and Intranet chief at British Airways in his presentation “Connecting Frontline Employees Globally” at IBF LIVE 2006 in London."

VentureBeat, 12.10.2006: YouTube follow: Yahoo gets bashed, “page view” metrics & the third man

VentureBeat, 12.10.2006: YouTube follow: Yahoo gets bashed, “page view” metrics & the third man
by Matt Marshall: "Now that Google has snapped up hot video site YouTube, everyone is piling on Yahoo, which is supposed to be Google’s competitor."

Jim Moore's journal, 11.10.2006: Office 2.0 Conference, XML 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Talkshowhost 2.0, Big Tent 2.0

Jim Moore's journal, 11.10.2006: Office 2.0 Conference, XML 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Talkshowhost 2.0, Big Tent 2.0
by James Moore: "The disruptive potential of 2.0 is not in supplanting Microsoft Office, and it is not, sorry Ray O., in collaboration. The disruptive potential of Web 2.0 in the enterprise is the re-wiring of data. It's potential is in connecting business processes and applications in new ways..."

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Innovation Creators, 11.10.2006: Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software

Innovation Creators, 11.10.2006: Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software
by Rod Boothby: "Enterprise 2.0 is about decentralization of responsibility. This requires a completely different way of managing people."

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 11.10.2006: Enterprise 2.0 Beyond the Office

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 11.10.2006: Enterprise 2.0 Beyond the Office
by Ross Mayfield: "I'm with Rod that the original enterprise 2.0 definition's emphasis on freeform, emergence and implied decentralization. Not because it changes the enterprise software industry -- but because it has the potential to change enterprises."

BusinessWeek online, 11.10.2006: The Web According to Ballmer

BusinessWeek online, 11.10.2006: The Web According to Ballmer
About: "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer chats with BusinessWeek editors about Web 2.0's sky-high valuations and the new competition the company faces"

Friday, October 13, 2006

business2blog B2Day, 10.10.2006: Thinking Through the GoogTube Deal

business2blog B2Day, 10.10.2006: Thinking Through the GoogTube Deal
by Erick Schonfeld: "Now that we've all had a day to digest the news of Google buying YouTube, here are a few takeaways:"

Techcrunch, 10.10.2006: Zoho Virtual Office Launching Tomorrow; Racing Google to Market

Techcrunch, 10.10.2006: Zoho Virtual Office Launching Tomorrow; Racing Google to Market
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "Online productivity company Zoho is finally bringing all its various services together into one offering with the release of the Zoho Virtual Office at tomorrow’s Office 2.0 conference."

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 10.10.2006: Report: virtualization meets SOA

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 10.10.2006: Report: virtualization meets SOA
by Joe McKendrick: "Is SOA a form of application 'virtualization'? Or will the combination of virtualization and SOA result in an out-of-control 'Frankenstein'?"

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Enterprise Web 2.0, 09.10.2006: Zen and the Art of Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise Web 2.0, 09.10.2006: Zen and the Art of Enterprise 2.0
by Jerry Bowles: "The always provocative Susan Scrupski has taken issue with Andrew McAfee’s assertion that Enterprise 2.0 is more of a transformation than a revolution."

GigaOM, 09.10.2006: The Future of Social Networks - Communication

GigaOM, 09.10.2006: The Future of Social Networks - Communication
by Robert Young: "One that will serve as the anchor component for social networks as they begin to enter their next stage of evolutionary development. The component I’m referring to is the communications layer embedded within social networks."

business2blog, B2Day, 09.10.2006: Venture Firm Returns Cash, Says Its Just Too Hard to Make Money These Days

business2blog, B2Day, 09.10.2006: Venture Firm Returns Cash, Says Its Just Too Hard to Make Money These Days
by Erick Schonfeld: "Respected Silicon Valley venture firm Sevin Rosen Funds is returning $250 to $300 million to investors rather than put it into new startups. It seems to think the venture capital model is "broken" because there is too much money chasing too few good ideas, and for those good ideas that are funded, the IPO and M&A markets are not offering enough homerun returns to justify all the initial investments."

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Venture Beat Contributors, 08.10.2006: Venture Capital 2.0 - the evidence accumulates

Venture Beat Contributors, 08.10.2006: Venture Capital 2.0 - the evidence accumulates
By Peter Rip: "The over-simplified conclusion is early stage venture capital is no longer economically interesting – a.k.a “broken.” The more accurate self-assessment is that Sevin Rosen concluded they did not have a strategy to navigate the new dynamics of the market, not that the market itself was poisoned."

MobileCrunch, 08.10.2006: T-Mobile Announces Launch of UMA, Dual Mode Handsets

MobileCrunch, 08.10.2006: T-Mobile Announces Launch of UMA, Dual Mode Handsets
by Oliver Starr: "Following a highly succesful test of UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) developed by Kineto Wireless and now part of the 3GPP Specification, UMA is a technology that, when coupled with handsets that support both WiFi and GSM, allows for the seamless switching of a call in progress from one network to the other and back again."

Marc’s Voice, 08.10.2006: Visionizing for the future

Marc’s Voice, 08.10.2006: Visionizing for the future
by Marc Canter: "Joel DeGan and I tried to create something called the PeopleDNS - which would have been the foundation for such a search. Since then = i-names = and a host of other identity brokers have tried to fill that space."

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

A VC, 07.10.2006: Is The "Traditional Venture Capital Model" Broken?

A VC, 07.10.2006: Is The "Traditional Venture Capital Model" Broken?
by Fred Wilson: "But it doesn't mean that the "venture capital model" is broken. It means that we have to adapt to the changing nature of the technology business."

/Message, 06.10.2006: The More Europe Project: Participatory Media

/Message, 06.10.2006: The More Europe Project: Participatory Media
by Stowe Boyd: "It is much more of an updatable online business card, where people can learn something of a user's background and interests, and where forums support give-and-take on professional topics. That participatory media feel, so obvious in Flickr, last.fm, and Plazes, is lacking in openBC."

InfoWorld News, 06.10.2006: Interview: Microsoft, Apple eyed for AJAX alliance

InfoWorld News, 06.10.2006: Interview: Microsoft, Apple eyed for AJAX alliance
by Paul Krill: "InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Boloker at the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday about AJAX, the security issues around it, and the possibilities of other vendors such as Microsoft and Apple joining the alliance."

Monday, October 09, 2006

BeyondVC, 06.10.2006: Social shopping

BeyondVC, 06.10.2006: Social shopping
by Ed Sim: "The next step in this evolution of commerce will be social shopping or companies leveraging Citizen's Media (blogs, podcasts, videocasts, tagging) to drive commerce."

business2blog, B2Day, 05.10.2006: The Search for the Next Big Leap in Search

business2blog, B2Day, 05.10.2006: The Search for the Next Big Leap in Search
by Erick Schonfeld: "Everyone wants to be the next Google (or at least find it). That's why when information about a new search startup bubbles up, bloggers are all over it: Powerset, Yahoo's MyWeb, Google's SearchMash, Bessed, Clusty and Kosmix."

JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL, 05.10.2006: Business Intelligence in the world of Rich Internet Applications

JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL, 05.10.2006: Business Intelligence in the world of Rich Internet Applications
by WDDJ News Desk: "Currently, we are about to enter a new era of Rich Internet Applicatoins (RIA), when plain looking Web applications will gradually be replaced with RIA delivered over the Web."

Sunday, October 08, 2006

BusinessWeek online, 05.10.2006: Skype Founders' Venice Project Revealed

BusinessWeek online, 05.10.2006: Skype Founders' Venice Project Revealed
by Steve Rosenbush: "Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are combining professionally produced TV and videos with the Internet, and BusinessWeek.com got the first look."

VentureBeat, 04.10.2006: More on Powerset, the secretive search engine

VentureBeat, 04.10.2006: More on Powerset, the secretive search engine
by Matt Marshall: "We promised to bring you more on Powerset, that secretive company that wants to better Google with a new kind of search."

/Message, 05.10.2006: Social Metrics

/Message, 05.10.2006: Social Metrics
by Stowe Boyd: "Mike McDerment announced a new feature for Freshbooks, that will allow active users to benchmark their stats against industry norms as gathered in an anonymized way by the Freshbooks web service."

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Innovation Creators, 04.10.2006: Participation is the Killer App

Innovation Creators, 04.10.2006: Participation is the Killer App
by Rod Boothby: "Whether it is end user participation in content driven conversations on blogs and wikis, or end user developed applications, mash-ups and widgets, I think that it is participation that key difference between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0."

Read/WriteWeb, 04.10.2006: Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet

Read/WriteWeb, 04.10.2006: Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet
by Ebrahim Ezzy: "The value of social networking, in general, is diminished with each new service entering the field. There's a need for some standards in the social networking space, as it is difficult to maintain profiles at each social network."

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 04.10.2006: SlideShare: the YouTube of Powerpoint

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 04.10.2006: SlideShare: the YouTube of Powerpoint
by Ross Mayfield: "SlideShare launches today -- the YouTube of Powerpoint. While Powerpoint destroys thought, so does TV. And misgivings aside, slides can be an art form in and of itself."

Friday, October 06, 2006

Forrester, Charlene Li's Blog, 02.10.2006: Calculating the ROI of blogging

Forrester, Charlene Li's Blog, 02.10.2006: Calculating the ROI of blogging
by Charlene Li: "One issue that keeps coming up over and over again is how to measure the ROI of blogs. I’ve written about this in the past and have been stewing over how to go beyond the intangible “blogging is good for your business” exhortations to quantify blogging’s benefit to organizations."

/Message, 03.10.2006: Fred Stutzman on Selling Social Networks

/Message, 03.10.2006: Fred Stutzman on Selling Social Networks
by Stowe Boyd: "Fred has a great post that digs into the dynamics and sales models emerging around social networks."