GigaOM, 26.02.2007: Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom by Om Malik: "The company has taken its wide array of offerings – video aggregation, photo albums, weblogs, forums, sausages and sauerkraut – and has come up with what amounts to a 15-minute Social Network."
O'Reilly Radar, 27.02.2007: Creating Engaging User Experiences by Tim O'Reilly: "Adobe's holding a special product preview summit today called Engage, focused on Adobe's new tools for creating engaging user experiences. I love Adobe's framing of 'engaging user experiences' as a touchstone for the web going forward."
TechCrunch, 21.02.2007: It’s G-Day: Google Launches Apps Premier by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "The day that everyone knew was coming has arrived with the announcement that Google has launched Google Apps Premier, its subscription package of premium, hosted business applications in direct competition with Microsoft."
Web 3.0 = (4C P VS) by Sramana Mitra: "3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C P VS)."
Scientific American: A Digital Life by Gordon Bell: "New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive. Our research project, called MyLifeBits, has provided some of the tools needed to compile a lifelong digital archive."
Engadget, 18.03.2007: Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things by Ryan Block: "When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you're using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you've probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives."
Wired News: Supersize Your RSS by Scott Gilbertson: "As users upgrade to Vista and IE7 and discover the convenience and power of RSS, we can expect a huge upsurge in the popularity of syndicated information on the web."
Innovation Creators, 14.01.2007: Read/Write Intranet Idol by Rod Boothby: "I believe that 2007 is the year when companies will start to understand that they need a read/write Intranet. Here is a list of some of the start-ups and large companies that produce systems that could be used to build a read/write Intranet."
The FASTForward Blog, 02.01.2007: Web 2.0 for the Enterprise by Zia Zaman: "Chip Griffin did an excellent job of summarizing Web 2.0 in his angel investor blog. While McAfee and Schrage might have created their own definitions, I think that Griffin’s list of ten can be applied, with little transmogrification, to the Enterprise."
HBS Faculty Blog, 31.12.2006: The First Year of Enterprise 2.0, and the Second by Andrew McAfee: "Many people have discussed the tools, technologies, approaches, and philosophies of Enterprise 2.0 in conferences, articles, interviews, and blogs. Even more importantly, many companies have moved past discussion to deployment, and are building Intranets that resemble today's Internet: multi-voiced, egalitarian, social, dynamic, self-organizing, and benefitting from network effects."
ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 27.12.2006: Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007 by Dion Hinchcliffe: "Enterprise 2.0 platforms can provide highly general purpose, freeform, do-it-yourself (DIY) tools that have the potential to solve an entire group of related and overlapping problems in collaboration, knowledge management, SOA adoption, self-service IT, and even overall worker productivity that have been plaguing IT and business for years."