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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

Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

A zero-day flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, which are commonly used to encrypt web pages, has been made public. Security researchers Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa unveiled the TLS Transport Layer Security flaw on Wednesday, following the disclosure of separate, but similar, security findings. TLS and its...

Tags: Web, Flaw, TLS, SSL, Zero-day Bug, Ssl/Tls, Network Security, Channel Management, Networking, Marketing, zero day, security, encryption, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-05

Microsoft to add SharePoint access to Live@edu

This is goodMy Organization rolled out Live@edu for it's students primarily as an email client so that kids can safely email their teachers and communicate safely without the risk of opening up general email. This allowed us to create accounts based off their ID number and now teachers can...

Tags: Groupware, Collaboration, Bing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint, Live@edu, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Organic Social Networks, the Yankees and....Wha'? (UPDATE: WE WON OUR 27TH WORLD SERIES!)

Needless to say, being a Yankees fan of the entirely driven and committed sort, I'm biting every nail on my hands off and frankly, if I could reach my feet, would go at those nails too (Ugh.). I do that every time that the Yankees are in the playoffs or...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Twitter Inc., CRM, Games, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Wondershare QuizCreator 3.0.0.35 (Windows)

Wondershare QuizCreator is a robust quiz maker designed for corporate training and online education to create interactive Flash-based quizzes, online surveys and web assessments. This quiz maker software is one of the easiest yet most effective ways to access knowledge and get valuable opinions. Create a Flash Quiz within Minutes...

Tags: Quiz, Microsoft Windows, Wondershare Software, Wondershare QuizCreator, E-mail, Channel Management, Development Tools, Online Communications, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 17 (Windows)

The Java Runtime Environment JRE provides the libraries, the Java Virtual Machine, and other components to run applets and applications written in the Java programming language. In addition, two key deployment technologies are part of the JRE: Java Plug-in, which enables applets to run in popular browsers; and Java Web...

Tags: JRE, Microsoft Windows, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe

Microsoft officials have shared details about two of the three different versions of Office 2010 that are in development: The Office 2010 client and the Office Web Apps. Next week, at the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, they finally are slated to show and tell more about the third: Office...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-03

You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software

As per usual...you give no concrete examples only ethereal ideas that go nowhere. You talk about services as though it is something other than software. Everything you propose goes back to the fact that you still have to have infrastructure and software before you can even get started. You use...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, SOA, software, hardware, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-11-03