Schadenfreude 2.0
Published on Wednesday, October 11 2006
The blogosphere has been exhibiting a bit of Schadenfreude 2.0 over the demise of WalMart’s “The Hub” site, which until recently was found here.
Monthly archive for October 2006
Business Value of Interaction? – The more the better
Published on Wednesday, October 11 2006
This post on the Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog – “Where is the Business Value in Enterprise 2.0?” is a very interesting exposition of an article in the McKinsey Quarterly, “Competitive advantage from better interactions.” (registration is required to read the McKinsey Quarterly).
The authors (of the article, that is, not the blog post – both are well worth reading) begin with the assertion that collaborative, complex problem solving activities are critical to modern companies, and argue that “companies that make these activities–and the employees involved in them–more productive will not only raise the top and bottom lines but also build talent-based competitive advantages that rivals will find hard to match.”
Fair enough, but what’s this got to do with Enterprise 2.0?
The beating heart of the internet? Social connections
Published on Monday, October 9 2006
I’ve long been a big fan of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, if “fan” is the right word to use for an independent, non-profit research organization. I’m always eager to see a new Pew report or presentation released.
Last week they published “Riding the Waves of ‘Web 2.0′” which “provides a short history of the phrase, along with new traffic data . . . to help frame the discussion.”
Creating influence in the next generation Internet
Published on Monday, October 9 2006
I just came across this post on TechCrunch today. It’s quite smart, though I think they mis-titled it (“Use Case: How Companies Can Use Photosharing Correctly“).
It isn’t about photosharing at all, but about how Nikon basically leveraged Flickr to locate a certain number of photographers it felt were talented, sent them some new products, and created an ad campaign around them.
From “View Source” to Open Source
Published on Friday, October 6 2006
If I may be so bold as to self-promote for a moment, an article I wrote appeared this month in AjaxWorld Magazine: “From ‘View Source’ to Open Source.”
The basic point of the article is that the increasing leverage of formal, explicitly licensed Ajax libraries and frameworks represents a fundamental evolution from the old “view source and copy” culture in which I first learned JavaScript development.
Thanks to the sys-con folks for publishing it – hopefully we’ll see a whole series of articles over the next few months.
