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."

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 29.07.2007: IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise

Read/WriteWeb, 29.07.2007: IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise
by Richard MacManus: "A new Forrester report states that Instant Messenging (IM) is by far the most valuable 'web 2.0' tool for enterprises"

New York Times, 29.07.2007: A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope

New York Times, 29.07.2007: A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope
by Jason Pontin: "Kevin Rose, the co-founder and chief architect of Digg, a hugely popular news site, announced in late June the introduction of Pownce, a social-networking service that combines messaging with file-sharing. Mr. Rose immediately endowed his latest venture with some mystique by declaring that, for the time being, only those with invitations would be permitted to test his new site."

Monday, July 30, 2007

The FASTForward Blog, 29.07.2007: Enterprise 2.0… It Just Feels Right

The FASTForward Blog, 29.07.2007: Enterprise 2.0… It Just Feels Right
by Joe McKendrick: "But perhaps the benefits of E/W 2.0 need not be so overstated and complicated. To put it simply, it helps people work together more comfortably."

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Friday, July 27, 2007

New York Times, 27.07.2007: Microsoft Offers a Web-Based Strategy

New York Times, 27.07.2007: Microsoft Offers a Web-Based Strategy
by John Markoff: "Microsoft executives said Thursday that they intended to respond to the growing threat to its software posed by rivals like Google that offer Web-based versions of its applications."

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Intranet Benchmarking Forum, 23.07.2007: Intranet Strategy ; the intranet manager's challenge

Intranet Benchmarking Forum, 23.07.2007: Intranet Strategy ; the intranet manager's challenge
by Helen Day: "As part of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum's research programme they have just published a detailed research report for it's members on the challenges of managing intranet strategy and governance, written by me and John Baptista."

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

SocialComputingMagazine.com, 17.05.2007: What Form Is Enterprise Social Software Taking?

SocialComputingMagazine.com, 17.05.2007: What Form Is Enterprise Social Software Taking?
by Lee Bryant: "But this time around, we don't need Gartner to tell us what is obvious: the adoption of social software / Web 2.0 ideas by large organizations has begun, and it is going to be a game-changing development."

Monday, July 23, 2007

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 23.07.2007: A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 23.07.2007: A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "And for now, as evidenced recently in the McKinsey Web 2.0 in business survey where 21% of organizations globally said they are using or planning to use mashups, there appears to be considerable demand for mashups at the enterprise level even though the majority of existing offerings are primarily aimed at the consumer space. Is this disconnect resolving with the current crop of offerings?"

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 14.07.2007: Web Strategy: “Rewarding” your Social Network

Web Strategy by Jeremiah, 14.07.2007: Web Strategy: “Rewarding” your Social Network
by Jeremiah Owyang: "This Web 2.0 or Social Media movement isn’t about technology. RIA, AJAX, XML, RSS, APIs aren’t important. Why? Those are just tools that lead us to what’s really important = people connecting to people."

Friday, July 20, 2007

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 19.07.2007: Cases 2.0 Launched

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 19.07.2007: Cases 2.0 Launched
by Ross Mayfield: "During his keynote at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, HBS Professor Andrew McAfee put out a call to create a community for sharing case studies on Enterprise 2.0. After some sharing and prototyping in private, www.cases2.com launched today on a Socialtext wiki."

Thursday, July 19, 2007

eweek.com, 15.07.2007: The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0

eweek.com, 15.07.2007: The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0
by Darryl K. Taft: "Cahoon's example illustrates the growing trend of merging Web 2.0 technologies with SOA (service-oriented architecture) to address issues normally handled through PC-based software, resulting in faster, cheaper and more flexible solutions."

Monday, July 16, 2007

IBM Project Zero: Home

IBM Project Zero: Home
About: "Project Zero is an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications. Project Zero introduces a simple environment for creating, assembling and executing applications based on popular Web technologies. The Project Zero environment includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups and rich Web interfaces."

Monday, June 25, 2007

mashable.com, 24.06.2007: Plaxo 3.0 Launches - “The Ultimate Mashup”

mashable.com, 24.06.2007: Plaxo 3.0 Launches - “The Ultimate Mashup”
by Kristen Nicole: "Plaxo, the online contact manager, has launched its Plaxo 3.0 release today, bringing in a lot more sync and sharing functionality."

Friday, June 22, 2007

Slate Magazine, 20.06.2007: Apple suck-up watch: Watching the press froth over a new cell phone.

Slate Magazine, 20.06.2007: Apple suck-up watch: Watching the press froth over a new cell phone.
by Jack Shafer: "It's not just a new kind of cell phone, it's a cultural watershed!"
Remarks from the Fray: "The media loves Apple because they are the only innovative consumer electronics company in the country." Read the comment!

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Micro Persuasion, 19.06.2007: Content That Finds You (Part I)

Micro Persuasion, 19.06.2007: Content That Finds You (Part I)
by Steve Rubel: "This is the first of two posts on the subject. The first covers the four underlying pillars of content that finds you. The second will cover the impact of this major change in how we interact with media and the impact on marketing."

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Wired Blogs Compiler, 04.06.2007: Firefox 3 Feature Preview

Wired Blogs Compiler, 04.06.2007: Firefox 3 Feature Preview
by Scott Gilbertson: "Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday, bringing with it the first look at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick."

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

O'Reilly Radar, 28.05.2007: Beyond the Browser

O'Reilly Radar, 28.05.2007: Beyond the Browser
by Allison Randal: "The wave of the future is not web browser applications. Instead we're coming full circle back to desktop applications, but this time we've broken the old idea of single user silo applications with no connection to the outside world. The wave of the future is lightweight desktop applications with the same massively networked, Web 2.0 behavior we've come to expect from browser applications."

Thursday, May 24, 2007

CNET News.com, 23.05.2007: Promising antispam technique gets nod

CNET News.com, 23.05.2007: Promising antispam technique gets nod
by Declan McCullagh: "A key Internet standards body gives preliminary approval to a powerful technology (DomainKeys) designed to detect and block fake e-email messages."

Thursday, May 17, 2007

searchengineland.com, 16.05.2007: Google 2.0: Google Universal Search

searchengineland.com, 16.05.2007: Google 2.0: Google Universal Search
by Danny Sullivan: "Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages."