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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

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

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

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

Quick Review: Logitech Harmony

Part of my goal with this blog is expanding on the idea of what web 2.0 is...what it means...and where it is going. More and more we are seeing delightful hybrids of web to device, like Skype phones and streaming music devices. Logitech has taken that idea and applied it...

Tags: Reviews, Two-Way Web, Convergence, Products, Web 2.0, Media, Tech

Blog posts 2007-02-20

R.I.A.? S.O.A.? T.L.A.!

In yesterdays interview, I was asked about Web 2.0 apps versus desktop applications. I wanted to talk about that a little more. Back in 1994, I cobbled together a little demo that was shown at a session at the Seybold Conference on Publishing. It...

Tags: Web 2.0, Business, Media, Tech, Design, Web Office, Internet Companies, Web Browsers, Enterprise, Mashups, Two-Way Web, Apple, Sun, Adobe, Web browser

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Guest Blogger Interview: John Fox of GroupSmarts

IntroAt Macworld 2006 I found a little gem of a program, MemoryMiner, hidden away in a back corner of the showroom floor. After watching the demo, I thought it was one of the more unique applications I had seen in a long time. That year it won Best of...

Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Tech, Design, Yahoo, Collaboration, Products, Social Software, Two-Way Web, Flickr, Mac, Windows, photograph, D.A.M., MemoryMiner, Web

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Enterprise 2.0 year in review

Though the eponymous title of this blog refers to the application of all aspects of Web 2.0 to the enterprise both large and small, the big story this year has really been about a collaborative subset of Web 2.0, something referred to as Enterprise 2.0. Though the definition has...

Tags: Web 2.0, Blogging, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-19

Web Office Widgets

Now that office software is becoming a big part of the Web landscape, were starting to see widgets (i.e. mini web apps) appear that have office functionality. The personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office "flakes", which is their term for widgets. The new ones...

Tags: RSS, Pageflakes, Intranet, Web, start page, dashboard

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0

One of the most consistent trends on the Internet is the rise of open APIs and the applications built on top of them, known as mashups. Programmable Web currently lists over 300 APIs that can be used for everything from building Web sites on top of Google Maps to...

Tags: Web 2.0, Business Models, SaaS, Mashups, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Business Process Management, Governance, Collaboration, WS-*, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Social Software, Web services, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, RSS, ATOM, REST, Social Networking, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad

At the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad, 13 web startups have 5 minutes each to present their wares. Here are some quick impressionistic views of how it went.... In the chair is a music-based video game, where people can interact with music - e.g. generate your own content and play...

Tags: tool, Web 2.0, News, Tech, Social Media, web2con, Internet Companies, Products, Reviews, Social Software, Two-Way Web, Web as Platform, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications.  Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-05

Additional Resources

AT&T loses bid to stop Verizon ads, responds with its own

AT&T could use Apple's patentApple has patented a technique where a user is forced to watch an ad and then answer a quiz about that ad before they are allowed to use their Apple device. AT&T could use this to force all iPhone users to watch AT&T ads.AT&T has no...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Webcast: Smart Techniques for application security: whitebox + blackbox testing.

Whitebox & blackbox application security testing are two approaches for detecting vulnerabilities in Web-based and network applications. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but a combination of the two provides the most comprehensive application security coverage and facilitates the extension of vulnerability assessments across the development lifecycle.

Tags: Technique, Webcast, Application Security, Security Administration, Security

Webcasts 2009-11-19

RedGreen 3.0.3 (Mac)

Application to create 3D photos that can be viewed with red-green or red-blue 3D glasses. All you need is the 3D glasses and a digital camera ar a web cam to shoot the photos. The application will then take two photos (one for the left eye and one for the...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Glass, Photograph

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Full Wal-Mart Black Friday ad hits Internet, complete with Samsung, Sony HDTV deals

If you read yesterday's post, you already know about a few of Wal-Mart's Black Friday home theater deals, including a $78 Blu-ray player. At long last, Wal-Mart's full Black Friday ad has hit the Web, and it includes some of those brand names that the earlier deals lacked. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Home Theater, Advertisement, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Internet, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more

The biggest news here is that MS is losing its grip on developers as they are switching to programming for the web and cross platform tools.Microsoft and its future.The chief software architect not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., dotnet, PDC, silverlight

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Altova StyleVision Standard Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova StyleVision 2010 Standard Edition is a drag-and-drop, visual XML- to-HTML stylesheet designer for graphically designing templates that render eye-catching HTML output from XML content. StyleVision is fully standards-compliant and supports XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, CSS, and JavaScript for building advanced Web pages. It even has a built-in HTML importer...

Tags: Altova, HTML, XSLT, Microsoft Windows, Altova StyleVision, Altova StyleVision 2010 Standard Edition, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Just Color Picker 2.2 (Windows)

A free color picker and color editing tool. Features 5 formats of color values (HTML, RGB, HEX, HSB/HSV, and HSL); 3x, 9x and 15x magnifier to see precisely which color you want to pick; picked colors history to save and reuse picked colors; RGB and RYB color wheels to display...

Tags: Color, Microsoft Windows, Anny, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-18