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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

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

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

Additional Resources

MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-23

IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41% of execs stumped about mashups

Corporate technology departments are becoming the primary gatekeepers of Web 2.0 purchases--it used to be the business types--but could use a little education on concepts like mashups. According to a report by Forrester Research, IT departments are now in control of enterprise Web 2.0 deployments and the...

Tags: Web, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Mashup, Technology Department, IT Organization, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Conferences as conversation starters

Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...

Tags: Web, Industry, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?

The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...

Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Collaboration, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-22

Social project management?

Social project management suggests that social media -- presumably wikis, blogs, and the like -- can enhance connectedness among project participants, thereby reducing the rate of project failures. Will it work? by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Team, Social Media, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Government 2.0: Focus is on IT recruiting

Should local governments deploy Web 2.0 applications as part of an online services portfolio? Speakers at the Pennsylvania Digital Government Summit, sponsored by Government Technology magazine, were four-square in favor but urged CIOs to move deliberately, ComputerWorld reports. "I'm not here to tell government to just jump in," said...

Tags: Information Technology, Recruiting, Government Information Portal, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Disparate HP user communities unite under Connect banner at HP Technology Forum event

Connect is leveraging the social media and networks trend by creating what amounts to a LinkedIn or Facebook for HP users on its site at . Users can create a profile that describes their HP product sets, which then heightens their ability to reach out to other similar users and...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Connect, Connect Community, Social Networking, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Workforce Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Should we be teaching "productive IM"?

According to hothardware.com, researchers at Ohio State and UC Irvine have discovered that instant messaging can actually increase productivity in the workplace. The study theorizes that using IM enables individuals to "flag their availability." Doing so can limit when IM interruptions occur. Even if an IM interruption...

Tags: IM, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-12

SocialText unveils new wiki spreadsheet

SocialText just announced its latest addition to SocialText SocialCalc, a multi-user wiki-based spreadsheet. SocialText isn't the first to deliver an online spreadsheet, but it is the first to integrate an online spreadsheet with a leading Wiki and allows linking between sheets. (Click here for our exclusive, SocialCalc screen gallery.) ...

Tags: Socialtext, Spreadsheet, Permissioning, Google Sheet, Wiki, Productivity, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-06-10

What is Enterprise 2.0?

I'll be in Boston for the US Enterprise 2.0 conference next week. I'm looking forward to meeting face to face with a lot of people I converse with via Twitter (I'm @olivermarks on that platform when it's working...) and other digital connections, seeing old friends, and particularly...

Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Tool, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Email is the enemy

I'll always remember as a child a very old gentleman in Manchester, Northern England telling me about the Dickensian office he worked in during his youth - everyone sat in rows at desks equipped with ink wells and quills, writing and copying documents. The boss sat with a bullhorn on...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-02

News to know: Netflix; Google Health; Storm Worm; Fixing Vista

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: The Storm Worm would love to infect you Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: The information lockdown continues Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Vertical Industries, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Topography, roadmaps and directions

Very few of us are fortunate enough to start with a clean slate when planning 2.0 business collaboration projects; depending on the size and age of your enterprise you are likely to be dealing with powerful existing and legacy systems and their associated processes and departments. Navigating...

Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-19