Development. Enterprise2.0 1. Webdesign 1. Mashups 1. Enterprise2.0 2. Webdesign 2. Mashups 2. Network Effects in Data - O'Reilly Radar. Nick Carr’s difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term “network effects” somewhat differently, and not in the simplistic way many people understand it.
Here’s Nick: Let’s stop here, and take a look at the big kahuna on the Net, Google, which O’Reilly lists as the first example of a business that has grown to dominance thanks to the network effect. Is the network effect really the main engine fueling Google’s dominance of the search market? I would argue that it certainly is not…. The intelligence embedded in a link is equally valuable to Google whether the person who wrote the link is a Google user or not.
Ah, I say to myself: Nick only sees first order network effects, what you might call endogamous networks, those that require the user to be part of the tribe. How wrong can you be? FatWire’s sex site demo backfires at Boston Web 2.0 conference. Dec 3 2008 3:05PM GMT Posted by: Linda Tucci Tags: Thanks! We'll email youwhen relevant content isadded and updated. Following Follow Conference coverage Talk about a booby trap. “It’s still offensive,” calls out a woman in the audience, and therein ensued what must be a first for an IT/Web 2.0 conference: a heated exchange about why Gupta chose this site and did he understand that it was an assault on women in the audience. Web 2.0 Summit. Identi.ca. Face value | The accidental innovator | Economist.com. Onaswarm: Lifestreaming For Groups. Onaswarm is a new lifestreaming application from Toronto's David Janes and BlogMatrix.
Lifestreaming is something people do with a growing class of services that let you display all your activities across different websites, through aggregating the RSS feeds from your accounts on one page. Onaswarm a smart, interesting service that combines groups, microformats and flashes of really good usability. The service is in private beta, but readers here who request accounts and include the letters RWW in their entries to the request form will be given accounts promptly. It's very text-centric and clearly better for geeks than it is for the artists who like Tumblr, for example. The Onaswarm site architecture and navigation need a substantial overhaul to improve usability, despite some nice touches. The feed discovery process is very nice; Onaswarm lets you enter various usernames you use on different sites, then searches for RSS feeds based on those usernames.
Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo = something happening you shou. I’ve really been bitten by the Facebook/Twitter/Kyte/Jaiku bug. Stephanie Booth, everyone’s favorite Swiss blogger, met me tonight at the Jaiku party (that’s Jaiku’s PR guy, Neil Vineberg holding the Jaiku poster) and said I had to add Dopplr to my bag of tricks (it keeps track of where you, and your friends, are). Forget Dopplr right now, because most of you haven’t yet experienced many of these five services that help you share your presence and other things about what you’re doing, or what you’re thinking about with other people. Why am I using these services nearly every hour of my waking life? Because they are being talked about and I want to learn what is making people so passionate — nearly everyone in the industry I meet either loves these things or despises them.
It seems that every conversation lately is about one of these five services and how they’re potentially changing how we communicate with each other. I’m not sure what we should call this group of apps. The Gapminder World 2006, beta. Welcome to BiblioCommons. Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Last November in Beijing, IBM gathered 2,000 employees, with 5,000 more watching on the web, to unveil a series of global initiatives on digital storage, branchless banking, and the like.
During the presentation, CEO Sam Palmisano walked up to an onstage PC, logged onto the online three-dimensional virtual world called Second Life, and took command of the cartoon-like "avatar" that represents him there. He then visited a version of Beijing's Forbidden City built on virtual real estate, dropping by an IBM (Charts) meeting where avatars controlled by employees in Australia, Florida, India, Ireland, and elsewhere were discussing supercomputing.
Among the initiatives announced by Palmisano that day: a $10 million project to help build out the "3-D Internet" exemplified by Second Life. By early January more than 3,000 IBM employees had acquired their own avatars, and about 300 were routinely conducting company business inside Second Life. The Web 2.0 Retreat: Every Week on Sunday at 7:00PM EST in Secon. Geni - Everyone's Related. Collaborative Thinking: Social Computing: From LifeStyle to Work. This week I will be presenting at the The ECAR Symposium 2006 event in Phoenix, AZ. The topic will be "Social Computing: From LifeStyle To WorkStyle" and will focus on some of the more interesting trends I've found in the social software space. While much of the media focus is on the technology, I've been more interested in examining aspects related to organizational dynamics and the manner in which such software can enable more effective social scaffolding within enterprises.
To over-generalize the consumer market: People begin to use socially-oriented sites for their own purposes They end up sharing content more easily with friends, family and so on Along the way they discover that they can find information and activities that are of interest more rapidly And in doing so, continue to connect with other people, forming relationships, communities, etc. Where "*" are attributes I had written about earlier this year in a paper published to Burton Group clients on social software.
» Inside the mind of the Net generation | Between the Lines | ZD. During a session at the Web 2.0 Summit, author and consultant Don Tapscott shared results from a research project on the Net generation, the first humans to grow up digitally. An estimated 80 million people in the U.S. alone are coming into the workplace and marketplace with a far different set of experiences and skill than previous generations. “Kids are lapping their parents on the info track,” Tapscott said. In the survey of 2,000 people between the ages and 12 and 29, the results showed that freedom of choice was a critical factor. Unlike older generations, the Net generation has many options.
In addition, freedom to customize--cars (Pimp My Ride), computers or anything that makes it fit with who they are—is also important. The Net Generation also wants the freedom to schedule. The Net generation is also the new “scrutinizer,” and the majority do research prior to purchasing, 42 percent of the respondents at the top of the adoption pyramid write reviews. Enterprise 2.0 Camp 2 « Semantic@BlogMatrix. WikiStart - olm - DrProject. Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special | Guardian Unlimited. » The Enterprise 2.0 industry discussion continues and evolves |
A pair of new articles over on the Sandhill site explores the increasingly discussed topic of Enterprise 2.0, an important Web 2.0 offshoot that I've covered over the last few months. While a lot of folks are taking a wait and see attitude to the application of low-barrier, emergent, social software to enable ad hoc business processes, it's nevertheless a topic of interest in many IT and business circles.
The first piece, by M.R. Rangaswami, talks about The Birth of Enterprise 2.0, saying: Enterprise 2.0 is more than just Web 2.0 for business. Rangaswami also notes that he believes ultimately that the emergent, decentralized, ad hoc software which leverages the tenets of Enterprise 2.0 will let "a thousand flowers bloom" within organizations that embrace it. There’s a danger in confining our discussion of Enterprise 2.0 technologies to blogs and wikis. Many folks are looking for evidence or even great stories about the effectiveness of blogs, wikis, and social software in the enterprise.
Blog Archive » Prosper.com To Announce Milestones Tuesday. On Tuesday Prosper.com, a person-to-person lending site that launched in February, will announce a couple of fairly significant milestones: 100,000 members and $20 million in funded loans. They reached both milestones faster than UK-based competitor Zopa, which was recently named a Busines 2.0 “Disruptor.” Prosper allows members to request loans of up to $25,000 (the average funded loan is $5,000), and then other members offer to fund the loan at various interest rates. Prosper breaks the loan up into multiple pieces to distribute risk, and then funds from the lenders offering the most attractive interest rates.
Over 4,000 loans have been funded since the site launched in February 2006. Prosper earns revenue by taking 1% of the loan amount in fees from the borrower up front, and charging a 0.5% yearly loan maintenance fee to lenders. Interesting fact: Benchmark invested in both Zopa and Prosper, and the two will soon be competeting directly as Zopa expands to the U.S. market. Nine ideas for IT managers considering Enterprise 2.0. As browser-based software, SaaS, and Web 2.0 continue to make some inroads in the enterprise, it's the lack of useful pioneer reports that hampers the early adoptors.
Sure, many of us witness the often amazing trends taking place out on the Web in the form of mountains of user generated content and communication and collaboration occuring en masse via blogs and spaces. But the big question is still with us: Can the motivations and context that makes the latest generation of software on the Web so compelling, and hence popular, be made just as meaningful in the enterprise? As we get deeper into the second decade of the Web, we've been inundated with the 2.0 generation of everything, hopefully all learning from the mistakes of the 1.0 generation.
In addition to Web 2.0 itself however, we have two more important enterprise software trends: Office 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, coined by Ismael Ghalimi and Andrew McAfee respectively. It's about ease-of-use, first and foremost. Office 2.0 Conference wiki. Creating Web 2.0 Applications: Seven Ways to Fully Embrace the N. Attensa offers two rich enterprise RSS products. Enterprise RSS vendor Attensa has released two new products this summer and I was able to take a look at both last week.
The company now offers Attensa for Outlook version 1.5 beta and an Attensa Feedserver. Attensa Online, a consumer product we’ve written about in the past, has been deprioritized in favor of an enterprise focus. Attensa was one of the 12 highlighted innovators at the TechCrunch sponsored session at SuperNova this summer. While RSS for individual news reading is invaluable, leveraging it for organizational communication is undoubtedly going to become a common practice in the near future. Attensa’s use of attention data in both its Attensa for Outlook and Attensa Feedserver products is impressive now and the potential for the future is really exciting. Just about any source of information can be delivered by RSS and as the practice becomes more common we’re going to need more sophisticated ways to take advantage of the medium.
The future for Attensa is very interesting. Web 2.0 Workgroup. Top 10 Reasons to Embrace the Rich Internet Application. In the past couple of months, we've gotten ever closer to high quality Rich Internet Application solutions. As the RIA becomes more and more of a reality, it's important to distinguish them from traditional web applications and figure out what benefits they provide.
This is my list of 10 reasons you should be embracing the RIA whether you're working on the next great application from your garage or trying to convince your boss at a Fortune 500 company that RIAs are the way to go. There's something here for everyone. 1. Take advantage of the ubiquity of the internet. The web is everywhere, it's perhaps the only truly global phenomenon that we have today. 2.
RSS and micro formats are quickly becoming the building blocks of the web. 3. RIAs trash the old model of how web applications should look and give developers a powerful and robust way to build their applications. 4. By taking full advantage of the Internet, RIAs can be used to connect a living room or a community. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Flock. Want Fries With Your Change(s)? The other day. I unexpectedly ran into an old, familiar, and spot-on concept originated by the science fiction author and futurist Arthur C.
Clarke: people overestimate the short-term impact of technology, but underestimate its long term impacts. Some Web 2.0 proponents need a reminder of this timeless axiom, given their postings of late. For example, let's start with Dion Hinchcliffe: As for other significant Web 2.0 trends, Web 2.0's techniques are starting to bleed into the enterprise, something I call Enterprise Web 2.0. Dion may go to a lot of conferences, but it appears that he hasn't set foot inside a major corporate or government IT organization in quite some time. 37signals software is very impressive - for workgroups, Would I deploy their wares today on an enterprise scale with tens of thousands of users?
Sorry Dion, but I have to question how a programming language and framework, by itself, alters the corporate development landscape significantly in the short-term. Really. Review of the Year's Best Web 2.0 Explanations (web2.wsj2.c. Online Information Storage: Completing the Web as Platform. O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0. By Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0? " in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On.
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0. In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: The list went on and on. 1. Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core.
Netscape vs. All Things Web 2.0. « QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "Bad Code is Good Business" | Sacred Cow Dung Home | High-Performance Social Networking - Part II: The Natural Life-Cycle of a Personal Network » March 10, 2006 All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST" The most current listings are now available as a continuously updated Open Directory at “All Things Web 2.0 – The Directory” — cgm (08/16/06) Last night I was talking with Bob Stumpel who runs the Web 2.0 Group on OpenBC. Everything Web 2.0 by Bob Stumpel, et al 360yahoo - Blogging. . [ The italicized entries are ones which I added or “fixed” — cgm ] Related Links Posted by cmayaud at 02:06 PM | Permalink| Comments (145) Del.icio.us Tagging | Digg This | Posted to COMtent | DIRECTORIES | LISTS | SOFTWARE IT | Web 2.0 Hi, I just wanted to respond to the category that Vyew.com is posted under.
In fact, Vyew is a free, web-based collaboration site that provides a feature-rich meeting room with real-time, whiteboard functionality. Thanks, Fred Posted by: Fred Han at March 16, 2006 06:46 PM. AJAX explained. Chicagocrime.org: Chicago crime database. David Crow: Web 2.0 Innovation Map. Web 2.0 The Global SOA. What the hell is Web 2.0? The great web mash-up begins. Web 2.0? Why Should We Care?