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Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents: Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software; Discussion threads 2008-04-30
The Magic Quadrant: Team collaboration and social software: The Magic Quadrant: Team collaboration and social softwareSuprise SupriseIt is no surprise to me that the cowards at Gartner didn’t put any of the true disrupter’s in social software in the upper right hand corner of their silly quadrant. My guess is that the real leaders in social software have...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Team management, social Software, Team Collaboration, Magic Quadrant, software, team; Discussion threads 2007-10-28
Facebook infltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs: My colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars are not your typical Facebook demographic. Heck, I can't even make the top end 40-49 age group. But that doesn't stop us from arguing whether Facebook and other forms of social media are appropriate for enterprise usage and if so, where they fit.Some of us...; Tags: Social networking, Social software, Enterprise applications; Blog posts 2007-07-29
Can Web 2.0 really save the planet?: Chad Hurley, the worldwide Web 2.0 video king, hailed before the U.S. Congress last week that his YouTube “community” is helping “children in Africa.” BUT, can the entire Web 2.0 community save the WHOLE planet?Business Objects, a self-described “pioneer in business intelligence since the dawn of the category,” believes...; Tags: Enterprise, Social Capital, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-15
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
MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!: “Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart,” so croons Frank Sinatra. Maybe, but the very young are getting their hearts broken at MySpace!It apparently is not an easy task to maintain over 175 million friendships, even if Friend in Chief is founding...; Tags: Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Political Campaign, MySpace, Marketing, Facebook, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-05-03
Watch out Google? Yellow Pages meets Del.icio.us in YellowBot: Can Google win at Local? That is the $39 billion advertising question. Just as Google’s AdWords fueled billions can readily drive a multi-billion dollar takeover of the online display advertising market, in other words a DoubleClick buyout, Google’s spare cash can easily subsidize free local directory assistance service, in...; Tags: Social Web, Social Networking, Advertising, Yellow Pages, Web 2.0, Social Software, Social Media, Marketing, Local, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Social Networking for the masses: Rise of 'The Sleuth': Is social networking really just a young persons game? Is MySpace the only social networking game? (see Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?)NO. There is a social networker in each and every one of us that seeks emotional rewards from being connected and influential, new research has found. ...; Tags: Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Media; Blog posts 2007-04-17
Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?: Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-05
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
Does Google SEO success 'suck'?: Rich Skrenta has a love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.Skrenta decried to the Wall Street Journal just weeks ago that as Topix is 45% dependent upon Google for its visitors, moves by the number one search engine can yield “catastrophic” impacts...; Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Local, Internet Data, Google, Business Models, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-02
Yahoo on the fringe! The big Y Goes underground, big time: Shouldn’t the holy grail of UGC, User Generated Content, really be all about the Users, as in user culture, as opposed to corporate culture?YES, and Yahoo gets it, big time, with the launch of “Yahoo Underground,” a funky, seeking to be no holds barred first-hand trip inside of “unexplored worlds,”...; Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Culture, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-01
Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House: Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...; Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-14
A conversation with Doug Belshaw: [Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira. His blog can be found here.]Recently, I had a Campfire conversation with Doug Belshaw, a teacher of History and ICT at a successful comprehensive school in Doncaster, England. Among other things, Doug writes http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/, a blog filled with...; Tags: Wiki, blogging, Ive, blog; Blog posts 2007-03-12
John Edwards on DVD: Greatest hit in Iowa?: Edition number 30 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Are Amazon, Netflix, Columbia House shipping thousands of DVDs to Iowans? Perhaps. The DVD retailers and renters, however, are facing competition this week, not-for-profit DVD competition, from the John Edwards...; Tags: Consumer electronics, HEALTHCARE, DVD, John Edwards, Iowa, Digital Markets, health care, health; Blog posts 2007-03-09
More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary: A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides an interesting data point on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business processes of otherwise very traditional institutions. Both USA Today and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office have recently unveiled strategies for letting...; Tags: Architecture of Participation, Business Models, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Social Media, Social Software, Two-Way Web, User Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-08
Digg: Is Kevin Rose on the level?: What does the future of Digg portend if even perhaps its most ardent supporter fesses up to "spamming" what Kevin Rose calls a “digital media democracy”? In congratulating Rose on its 1,000,000 touted registered Digger, Michael Web 2.0 Arrington takes a bit of the credit himself for helping Digg...; Tags: Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Blogs, Digg, Business Models, Culture; Blog posts 2007-03-08
Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule?: Kevin Rose is proudly singing the praises of his Digg today, 1,000,000 praises: It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Digg, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-08
NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!: AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-08