Mixed by Sylvain Munaut (Chief Technology Officer @ Whatever) in Trends, Web apps
January
An article originally posted on Information Week
“The ax fell on Wednesday at Google (NSDQ: GOOG), not just for some of the company’s employees but for six of its services, too.
In addition to Google’s announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it’s discontinuing the ability to upload videos to Google Video.”
Read the full article at www.informationweek.com
In my opinion…
It’s always sad when good services come to an end. At least Google tries to mitigate the negative effects. Sometimes we forget the risk associated with externally hosted services, especially free ones that provide no guarantees. That doesn’t mean commercial services are always reliable either, some of us might remember the “TheLinkup” huge data loss no so long ago …
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Mixed by Thomas Moreau (Head of Training @ Whatever) in After party
January
An article originally posted on Indexed
See other great cards from Jessica Hagy at thisisindexed.com
In my opinion…
Innovation is the greatest added-value of a company.
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Mixed by Thomas Moreau (Head of Training @ Whatever) in Enterprise 2.0, Trends
January
An article originally posted on WTN News
“Based on Gartner’s findings, the top technology priorities of global CIOs involves harvesting value from existing core technologies in a way that solidifies business intelligence, enterprise applications, and virtualization. In this environment, there are some technologies that will get left out in the cold - “Basically, anything new,” McDonald said - but Web 2.0 tools are not among them.
McDonald said anecdotal evidence, including conversations with CIOs, indicates that social computing tools are on a different plane because such tools are not prohibitively expensive to adopt. “What’s the average cost of implementation of a new business intelligence capability? McDonald asked. “It’s not $5, but companies are implementing web 2.0 technology for very little money.
“Investments in BI and CRM and ERP were viewed as investments, and fairly significant capital expenditures. Companies are doing web 2.0 things almost as a straight operating expense.”
That’s true, he added, whether companies apply Web 2.0 tools internally to foster collaboration, or externally to attract new customers and retain existing ones. McDonald advised against favoring one approach over the other. The deteriorating economy does not mean that any aspect of social computing, which Gartner cited as a top emerging trend in 2008, should be placed on the back burner.”
Read the full article at wistechnology.com
In my opinion…
Indeed, enterprise 2.0 solutions that facilitate social productivity, that do not require complex implementation, and for which costs are not prohibitive (often offering flexible pricing solutions based on active users) will probably be exempt from the economic slowdown.
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Mixed by Thomas Moreau (Head of Training @ Whatever) in Web apps
January
An article originally posted on louisgray.com
“There seems to be a trend lately of posts regarding RSS overload. A lot of people are complaining about being overwhelmed with their Google Reader, and some are even advising for you to stop using your RSS reader altogether. I say, hogwash. Do something about it and take back your Google Reader. Now is the time to reclaim it.”
Read the full article at www.louisgray.com
In my opinion…
I fully agree with Louis Gray. RSS readers require organization. Many readers offer ways to filter feeds. Personally I use NetNewsWire (the stand-alone RSS application from Newsgator for Mac users) and I really like their Smart Lists, a way to filter RSS feeds based on lists of keywords that need to appear somewhere in the feed. FeedDemon (the Windows version from Newsgator) offers this feature too – they call them ‘watches’ –, like many others. Unfortunately, Google Reader doesn’t.
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Mixed by Thomas Moreau (Head of Training @ Whatever) in Knowledge mgmt
January
An article originally posted on Gartner
“A lot of people have suggested to me that KM is about collective intelligence or corporate memory or knowledge bases, but while these terms suggest these people know that KM involves richer forms of information management, it still rings of information that sort of lies there and doesn’t do much. So, a term like connective intelligence really describes (for me, at least) what we should expect of KM and all that digitized information we store in hopes of managing knowledge.”
Read the full article at blogs.gartner.com
In my opinion…
I like the concept of ‘connective intelligence’. Managing knowledge is indeed more about creating connections that generate ideas and innovation.
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Mixed by Fabienne Vandekerkove (CKO @ Whatever) in Enterprise 2.0, Trends
January
An article originally posted on anecdote
“The beginning of the year is a good time to take stock of where things are going and try and get a handle on the macro trends affecting our work. For me that means enterprise collaboration in all its forms. Here are six major trends that will encourage leaders to take action and help their organisations to be even more collaborative.”
Read the full article at www.anecdote.com.au
In my opinion…
Among the six trends likely to encourage enterprise collaboration pointed out by Shawn Callahan points, the global financial crisis is certainly the more vivid.
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Mixed by Khalid Yagoubi (Developer @ Whatever) in Trends
January
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“The financial problems of the world will have a big impact … Indeed, it looks like we’ve arrived at one of those giant inflexion points - where one web era is usurped by another… Now is the time for innovation.
What’s Next After Web 2.0 ?”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
In my opinion…
Crisis and innovation are intimately related, and companies are typically more innovative than paid technologists, who often merely duplicate the work of others.
“What’s Next After Web 2.0 ?”, that’s the question…
This is the ReadWriteWeb’s recently published yearly trends predictions.
The first point of interest is that Web Sites are turning more and more into Web Services. Indeed, most popular web 2.0 sites offer APIs (think del.icio.us, Twitter, etc.).
The second point of interest is the rise of the Intelligent Web, with semantic capabilities, automatic recommendations and personalization of services.
And the last point of interest is the emergence of the Mobile Web, bringing the Internet closer to the user.
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Mixed by Olivier Verbeke (CEO @ Whatever) in Trends
December
An article originally posted on confused of calcutta
“People will not come to “my” blog. They will go to “their” feed aggregator, where they can read all the people they’re interested in reading. If they see something of interest, they will dig deeper and come to my blog.
People will not come to read “my” tweets. They will go to “their” tweet aggregator, where they can read all the tweets of all the people they’re interested in following. If they see something of interest, they will follow the links provided.
People will not come to see “my” pictures in Flickr. People will not come to hear “my” music wherever.
“My” time is over.
It’s a different perspective.”
Read the full article at confusedofcalcutta.com
Mixed by Thomas Moreau (Head of Training @ Whatever) in Web apps, Web search
December
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“It’s pretty crazy to think that this service has become as high profile (if not popular) as it has without the ability to search for users by their names. Now that it’s here there are other search functions we still find more useful, though.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
In my opinion…
It’s Christmas! Now you can search Twitter users by their real names. How great!
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Mixed by Grégoire de Hemptinne (Developer @ Whatever) in Trends, Web apps
December
An article originally posted on VentureBeat
“Everyone loves talking about Twitter’s business model — because there isn’t one yet, and they’ll keep talking about it until there is one. But it’s becoming more clear that while a business model is of course important, Twitter is perhaps the perfect example of a company that can afford to take its time in finding the one that is perfect for it.”
Read the full article at venturebeat.com
In my opinion…
Twitter is maturing at an exponential rate and is attracting an ever-growing user base. Its success is in part due to its price – the service is free of charge. This is why Twitter is fast becoming a great opportunity for enterprises – big and small – to use it as a sales/promotional tool. Dell did exactly that: they used it as an efficient way to publish more promotional stuff at no cost.
If big companies such as Dell can greatly benefit from this tool, surely smaller infrastructures can too, especially since they usually are on tighter promotion budgets. Twitter is surfing on a new wave of communication and sales tools.
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