Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 14.12.2006: Transparent Media and Wikify Everything

Ross Mayfield's Weblog, 14.12.2006: Transparent Media and Wikify Everything
by Ross Mayfield: "An interesting thought experiment is not only would this work for Wired, or a media company, but would it work for any company."

Mashable!, 14.12.2006: 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay

Mashable!, 14.12.2006: 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay
by Pete Cashmore: "With the top YouTube users becoming paid shills for Coke, and the top Diggers being accused of taking ‘cash for Diggs‘, it seems that the users of social sites are looking to be rewarded for their efforts. In fact, there are already plenty of services that will pay you for your participation. Here are nineteen of the best, plus a few bonuses."

Fractals of Change, 13.12.2006: Distributed Networking - Don’t Forget the Long Links

Fractals of Change, 13.12.2006: Distributed Networking - Don’t Forget the Long Links
by Tom Evslin: "Many networks consist of clusters of endpoints knitted together by many short links and a much less dense set of long links which tie clusters together. A disproportionate share of the value of a network to its participants flows through the long links. Here are four examples with practical implications."

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 13.12.2006: Usability on the web is a sham

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 13.12.2006: Usability on the web is a sham
by Ryan Stewart: "Accessibility and standards are still very important parts of the web because information needs to be available to everyone, but dismissing the next generation of RIAs because they don't fit into the current model is short sighted."

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Read/Write Web, 13.12.2006: Search 2.0 - What's Next?

Read/Write Web, 13.12.2006: Search 2.0 - What's Next?
by Emre Sokullu: "Moreover, the super high valuation of Google on NASDAQ pushes investors and researchers to find better search solutions - to be The Next Big Thing. And these wannabes are not only working on discovering better indexing techniques, they're exploring new horizons like vertical engines, meaning-based search, intent-driven search, new clustering methods, and much more. In this post, we look into latest trends in the search industry."

Business Intelligence, 12.12.2006: Information Streams in the Enterprise

Business Intelligence, 12.12.2006: Information Streams in the Enterprise
by Mike Heck: "Enterprise RSS is poised to become the focal point that employees turn to for information, eclipsing individual aggregators plus systems such as portals, intranets, and enterprise applications."

Intranet Blog, 12.12.2006: More problems for world’s biggest intranet

Intranet Blog, 12.12.2006: More problems for world’s biggest intranet
by Toby Ward: "The $10 billion Navy-Marine Corps. (NMCI) intranet is not meeting its goals. The 10-year project steered by EDS has not met most of its key objectives."

ZDNet.com, Open Source, 11.12.2006: Open source is a sales model

ZDNet.com, Open Source, 11.12.2006: Open source is a sales model
by Dana Blankenhorn: "Open source is merely an efficient sales method for that business model, which now works for client applications, not just hosted offerings like Salesforce.com."

Monday, December 18, 2006

The Next Net, 12.12.2006: Yahoo Opens Up Project Panama

The Next Net, 12.12.2006: Yahoo Opens Up Project Panama
by Erick Schonfeld: "One reason Yahoo (YHOO) has been getting dinged by Wall Street is because its answer to Google's AdWords, dubbed Project Panama, has been repeatedly delayed. SearchEngineLand reports that it is now open to anyone who wants to sign up."

Cathexis, 11.12.2006: Enterprise 2.0: The Long Tail Within

Cathexis, 11.12.2006: Enterprise 2.0: The Long Tail Within
by Catherine Shinners: "The Long Tail market concept, (Chris Anderson), is now familiar to many observers of the Web’s impact on markets and commerce. From the point of view of external markets, it often represented like this."

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 11.12.2006: Socialtext Unplugged

Socialtext Enterprise Wiki, 11.12.2006: Socialtext Unplugged
by Ross Mayfield: Today at Le Web 3 in Paris we launched Socialtext Unplugged, the offline wiki. On my way here, I used it by clicking on the Unplug icon, downloading a collection of wiki pages, got on a plane and edited them offline.

SearchViews, 08.12.2006: Yahoo's Re-Org and Metacafe Rumors

SearchViews, 08.12.2006: Yahoo's Re-Org and Metacafe Rumors
by Kate Zimmermann: "Is Yahoo is finally cleaning up their internal "peanut butter" problem? On Tuesday, Yahoo announced their plans to merge media assets and reshuffle upper management (including the departure of COO Dan Rosensweig) by mashing everything into three overhead groups."

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Enterprise Architecture, 11.12.2006: Thought Leadership: Enterprise Architecture: More Predictions for 2007

Enterprise Architecture, 11.12.2006: Thought Leadership: Enterprise Architecture: More Predictions for 2007
by James McGovern: "Here are some additional predictions for 2007."

Communitelligence.com, 11.12.2006: Intranet case study: GM’s mySocrates

Communitelligence.com, 11.12.2006: Intranet case study: GM’s mySocrates
by Toby Ward: "General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the global industry sales leader for 75 years. The intranet is a unifying force in massive, sprawling enterprise that employs about 327,000 people in 33 countries."

Read/Write Web, 11.12.2006: 2006 Web Technology Trends

Read/Write Web, 11.12.2006: 2006 Web Technology Trends
by Richard MacManus: "Mark recently had an article published in Management Magazine that outlined Web trends for 2006 and 2007. Mark interviewed me for that article."

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 10.12.2006: Why are we building ‘enterprise’ SOAs with ‘LEGO blocks’?

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 10.12.2006: Why are we building ‘enterprise’ SOAs with ‘LEGO blocks’?
by Joe McKendrick: "Building 'enterprises,' one LEGO block at a time"

Thursday, December 14, 2006

InformationWeek, Innovators & Influencers, 11.12.2006: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 - Internet News by InformationWeek

InformationWeek, Innovators & Influencers, 11.12.2006: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 - Internet News by InformationWeek
by Brian Gillooly: "JP Rangaswami wants to apply interactive Web tools in business processes"

O'Reilly Radar, 10.12.2006: Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again

O'Reilly Radar, 10.12.2006: Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again
by Tim O'Reilly: "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")"

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 09.12.2006: SAP’s SOA strategy ‘is so 1995′

ZDNet.com, Service-Oriented Architecture, 09.12.2006: SAP’s SOA strategy ‘is so 1995′
by Joe McKendrick: "The era of customers being herded like cattle into forced or enticed migrations is over, and SOA the reason."

Enterprise Web 2.0, 08.12.2006: 5 Questions for Itensil’s Keith Patterson

Enterprise Web 2.0, 08.12.2006: 5 Questions for Itensil’s Keith Patterson
by Jerry Bowles: "Keith Patterson is the CEO and visionary behind Itensil, Inc., a web 2.0 software firm that develops web 2.0 user interface technology and provides a hosted service called Itensil Team Activity Manager. The product features a unique wiki + workflow integration that enables teams to turn collaborative ideas into reusable workflows. Patterson bootstrapped Itensil from a Silicon Valley ad and web services firm. Version 3, the Enterprise 2.0 version of the product, is currently in early access user trials and is producing promising results."