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Nine Ways VoIP 2.0 Can Transform the SMB

With the release of SwitchVox SMB 4.0 IP PBX, SwitchVox has added a number of integrations and mashups with mainstream applications. It's a good example of what voice 2.0 can offer the SMB. by David Greenfield

Tags: VoIP, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Telecommunications, Voice 2.0, SwitchVox, Mashups, IP PBX, Digium, Asterisk, David Greenfield

Image galleries 2009-02-02

A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...

Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media

There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-06-20

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1

It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...

Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*

Blog posts 2007-05-17

SaaS integration without the lock-in

After reading my post about Appirio’s eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration at the weekend, Zach Nelson of NetSuite wrote me an email to point out some of the downsides when integrating many different services in the way that Appirio has done:"How much would it cost to do what you described, and how...

Tags: Ecosystems, Development, Integration, Mashups, NetSuite, Uncategorized, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Mashups: The next major new software development model?

At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...

Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst

Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...

Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation

Blog posts 2007-05-05

A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups

Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...

Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Dot Mac Dead?

Im actually thinking about it.After 7 years as a faithful user, Im thinking about taking the plunge and severing my bank account from Apples .Mac service. Im seriously getting fed up with the delays and obvious omissions from Apples online strategy, and I tend to believe that if the iPhone...

Tags: Apple, Mashups, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Supernova: will intellectual property kill social media?

Kevin Werbach just posted the draft agenda for the upcoming Supernova conference. Ill be moderating a session at the Challenge Day on June 20 titled "Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media?," and weve confirmed the following stellar panel to take on this topic:EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-04-23

More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge

The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?

Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNets own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it...

Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web, Wiki

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?

Hard on the heels of a Texas district courts recent decision to dismiss claims against MySpace, Howard Bashman spotted a recent Section 230 decision out of the First Circuit that continues in this vein, and emphasizes the clear judicial trend of applying Section 230s protections to Web sites acting as...

Tags: User generated content, Mashups, Defamation, Podcasting, Live Web, Free speech, Copyright, Blogging, Anonymity

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps

In my last post, I took a look at the recent proliferation of Web widgets, which are modular content and services that are making it easier for anyone to help themselves to the vast pool of high value functionality and information that resides on the Web today. Companies are...

Tags: Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Right To Remix, RSS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, SOAP, The Long Tail, Two-Way Web, Web 2.0, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets

Blog posts 2007-02-25

XM+Sirius merger thoughts

Personally I think the merger could be a good thing for not only the two companies, but for the listeners as well. My reasons are likely different than most of what you will read out there, but there are some things that the new company could do that many people...

Tags: Web 2.0, RSS, Collaboration, Convergence, Mashups, Apple, Feeds

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets

One of the hallmarks of a good Web 2.0 site is one that hands over non-essential control to users, letting them contribute content, participate socially, and even fundamentally shape the site itself. The premise is that users will do a surprising amount of the hard work necessary to make...

Tags: Ajax, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Network Effects, Open APIs, Right To Remix, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Widgets

Blog posts 2007-02-19

Pipe any RSS mashup via your webpage

I have two further items of good news to report about Yahoo! Pipes for anyone intrigued by the RSS mashup tutorial I posted earlier this week. First of all, the Pipes team a few hours ago introduced a workaround to the date normalization problem that had been preventing...

Tags: Yahoo, Mashups, Development

Blog posts 2007-02-16

Yahoo Pipes and the future of composite content

The buzz continues to build around Yahoo! Pipes, which is currently the fifth most popular search topic on Technorati, as recorded in the screenshot below, even edging Microsoft Vista into sixth place! Its winning attention because it answers a huge unmet need to filter, transform and reorder the raw information...

Tags: Mashups, Web 2.0, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-02-14

Yahoo! Pipes tutorial: Build an RSS mashup

Ive published a picture gallery that walks through how to use Yahoo! Pipes to mashup several separate RSS feeds into a single river of news feed. Its one of the simplest exercises you can do with Pipes, but as I wrote last Friday, its a capability thats been on my...

Tags: Yahoo, Mashups

Blog posts 2007-02-13

What web 2.0 could teach Warner's Music's Eric Bronfman

[Note: At the end of this post Ill be asking for your support so stay tuned.]Im a Sonos owner. A Mac user. An iPod lover. A Sansa enthusiast. Whats wrong with this picture?If you said Digital Rights Management DRM, youd be correct. In the Web 2.0 world everything makes or...

Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Social Media, Microsoft, Google, Mashups, Apple, Community, DRM, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2007-02-12