Mixed by Sylvain Munaut (Chief Technology Officer @ Whatever) in After party, Web apps
September
An article originally posted on www.readwriteweb.com
“We’ve covered the launch of Google’s new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. As we all know Google is making a strong push into the enterprise with Google Apps, which received a further boost this week with the launch of Google Video for Business.
However, there is a lot of work needed to get Chrome ready for the office. Already our readers have noticed compatibility and usability issues that will hamper enterprise adoption.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
In my opinion…
In this article, the author evaluates the readiness of Google Chrome for use in a corporate environment. All in all, it seems to mostly come down to the lack of ActiveX support in Google’s latest browser.
Personally I think that the lack of ActiveX support is a “good” thing. It is not Google Chrome that needs to change, it is the applications using ActiveX.
With Google Chrome, the user base of Internet Explorer will most likely continue to decline, hopefully forcing vendors to finally evolve and use standard technology, making the web a better place both for users and web app developpers.
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Mixed by Gregory Culpin (Business Development Officer @ Whatever) in Social software
September
An article originally posted on www.theappgap.com
“The truth of most modern work is that we analyse data and information and reach out to our networks in order to gain access to knowledge. We collaborate on ideas and then have a burst of work that reflects the sharing of ideas. And, of course, once we have produced something, we then tend to socialise it again within our networks in order to refine the ideas we’ve produced. This is knowledge work in action and people are at the centre of it.”
Read the first full article at www.theappgap.com
“Various theories from social psychology have been used to explain this ‘whats in it for me’ factor to better understand how to successfully introduce social computing tools into corporate environments. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is often the first theory put forward.”
Read the second full article at www.theappgap.com
In my opinion…
Matthew Hodgson summarizes how enterprise social tools fit into daily collaboration and provides perspicuous illustrations to this purpose.
In an apposite post to Andrew Boyd’s article, he then addresses the issue of adoption and describes values theories such as Maslow’s pyramid in an attempt to answer the “what’s in it for me” factor. Enjoyable read.
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Mixed by Gregory Culpin (Business Development Officer @ Whatever) in Enterprise 2.0, Social software
September
An article originally posted on www.personalinfocloud.com
“The difference between Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 is like the difference building a tunnel through rock and tunnel under water”
Read the full article at www.personalinfocloud.com
In my opinion…
In this post, Thomas Vander Wal puts the emphasis on the difference between web 2.0 and their enterprise equivalents through the appropriate metaphor of rock and under water tunnels. The first gives way to far more traffic and can suffer imperfections while still being used. The second however has a smaller user base and faults are seen as more deadly, partly due to a perceived “fear of the environment”.
As mentioned also by Thomas, many new collaborative tools being brought to the enterprise are not flexible enough as users often have to adapt their behaviour to the tool and not conversely. More importantly these tools don’t yet effectively integrate the capturing of conversations around shared information, which is often where the real creation of knowledge happens.
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