Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Jason Calacanis, Nick Carr, Microsoft, Google, and the most prized currency of Web 3.0: Trust
- Jason Calacanis, Nick Carr, Microsoft, Google, and the most prized currency of Web 3.0: TrustGive me a definition for Web 2.0 firstAt the web 2.0 conference earlier this year, they had to have a whole panel debate what web 2.0 meant. Cisco calls it collaboration and video conferencing while...
- Tags: Channel management, AJAX, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Web, Nick Carr, Web 3.0, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- Jason Calacanis, Nick Carr, Microsoft, Google, and the most prized currency of Web 3.0: Trust
- Lampooning Jason Calacanis' attempt to define Web 3.0, Nicholas Carr metaphorically cites Yeat's Couplet (Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!; A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot) before concluding: Both beggars, though, labor under romantic misconceptions. For one, the web is freeing us from the shackles of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Nick Carr, Web, Media, Web 3.0, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- What's next after Web 2.0?
- Nick Carr is welcome to stake a claim for the trademarks on Web 3.0, but I can cite prior art. Judging by the reaction of the blogosphere over the past 24 hours, theres not much value in the term anyway. People are feeling deflated enough about Web 2.0 and have...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Web 3.0? Gimme a break
- Nick Carr, the anti-Gartner, disses Web 2.0 and the recent Web 2.0 Summit, calling it underwhelming at best. "When dogcrap 2.0 sites like PayPerPost and ReviewMe start getting a lot of attention, you know youre seeing the butt end of a movement. (Theres a horrible metaphor trying to get...
- Tags: General, Web, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-12
- Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suites
- Nick Carr weighs in on the definitional debates about Office 2.0, or the post Microsoft Office era that is emerging, and offers his view of the evolution of office software:Office 1.0 (1980s): a set of discrete and often incompatible applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation creation, and simple database management....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Is JotSpot a Microsoft Office killer?
- Nick Carr has an interesting post in Microsoft almost certainly will enter the Web Office suite market response to the new Web Office wiki released yesterday by JotSpot, covered here on my blog and also by Dan Farber. Dan called JotSpot's new product a "nascent wiki-based office suite", which is...
- Tags: JotSpot, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Follow the money
- Nick Carr asks who is making the big money in the Web 2.0 era of user-generated (or user-submitted if you are Google) content. Certainly not the users, and the Web sites monetizing the content aren't overflowing with riches. Try infrastructure companies like Limelight Networks, which provides content delivery network services...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Limelight Networks, YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Web 2.0? Who's got time for that?
- We all know Nick Carr is very hard to please when it comes to demonstrating the value of information technology, and shows no mercy as he picks apart the enterprise-readiness of emerging Web 2.0 applications. Which is to say, Web 2.0 may be ready for the enterprise, but the enterprise...
- Tags: knowledge, Nick Carr, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-04-20
- Nick Carr on the amorality of Web 2.0
- Nick Carr on the amorality of Web 2.0A lot of things don't care, but do their job anyway.And I fail to see how more participation by more people to expand ideas can be considered to dull a culture. What quality, exactly, makes a culture better or worse, anyway?AJAX 2.0...
- Tags: Blogging, Wiki, RSS, blog, Wikipedia, AJAX, Web 2.0, Flying Pigs, Nick Carr, Java people, Web
- Discussion threads 2005-10-05
Additional Resources
- CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These
- I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss. I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...
- Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Citrix Netscaler 9 - AppExpertTemplates simplify deployment
- Citrix recently lauched NetScaler 9, an application virtualization and delivery tool. The primary enhancement was the addition of sophisticated templates making deployment of applications via NetScaler dramatically simpler. Citrix describes the enhancements in the following way: NetScaler 9 introduces AppExpert Templates that capture hundreds of deployment...
- Tags: NetScaler, Citrix Systems Inc., NetScaler AppExpert Templates, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site
- The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Web Site, Curtain, Web Site Development, Social Networking, Web Technology, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed
- Have blogs become the new AP for news outlets? The New York Times has announced the launch of Times Extra, an online view of its front page that comes with links to content from other news outlets and blogs. For a long time, news outlets have been...
- Tags: Blog, NYT, News Outlet, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Information Agenda: A strategy shift from applications to information
- Stuck between business challenges on the one hand, and information management systems on the other hand which simply limit your ability to respond. IBM's Tom Inman wants an easy way to spread your information across the board. Commentary--As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report...
- Tags: Information Management, Business, Information, Information Agenda, IL&P, Competency Center, Strategy, Management, customer relations, IBM, application agenda, IT, Tom Inman IBM, Special to ZDNet, Tom Inman IBM Information Management division, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-12-04
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
Managed Hosting
- If the cost of building and managing a robust technology infrastructure is prohibitive for your small or mid-sized business (SMB), managed hosting may be worth another look. For help determining whether a managed or dedicated hosting solution makes sense for your business, read this informative blog post by Josh Hoskins.
-
From our sponsors
Smart IT Investment
- Fully-managed hosted IT solutions Complete hosted solutions tailored to your needs with no capital expenditures — the smart approach to IT investment Discover no-capex IT

White Papers and Webcasts