October 2, 2007 – 7:52 am
Andrew McAfee suggests that Facebook and similar social tools bring value to business by allowing employees to create and maintain more weak ties with people. Weak ties often bridge across groups and thus offer access to information and other resources that might not otherwise be available. Andrew likens these to options (e.g., financial ones that […]
I’m really excited to see what Oracle’s experimenting with in bringing social software into the enterprise. I see them starting to answer the question of how you do ad hoc problem-solving across informal social networks when there’s a formal hierarchy involved. This, to me, is a key issue in the Web 2.0 version of enterprise […]
In this post on enterprise applications and social media, Hugh MacLeod brings up the issue of hierarchies:
Big businesses will always have trouble with anything that subverts hierarchies, for hierarchy is the glue that holds large organizations together. Small businesses have an easier time with blogs and whatnot, for there are fewer layers to keep happy. […]
November 7, 2006 – 3:13 pm
Adobe has announced the open sourcing of its ActionScript virtual machine to Mozilla through the Tamarin project. This does not in any way mean that Flash itself is being open sourced, so don’t start thinking about some utopia where Flash and Ajax dance harmoniously together. The main benefit to Firefox users should be faster JavaScript […]
October 28, 2006 – 3:56 pm
Honestly, just because some people really like to watch sports on ESPN, does that mean they want ESPN cell phone service? Apparently not. So many companies make the mistake of thinking they should be at the center of our business and personal lives. News flash: I am at the center of my life; your company […]
October 24, 2006 – 2:25 pm
I’ll be at the Adobe Max conference in Las Vegas tomorrow and Wednesday. I’m looking forward to learning as much as I can about what Adobe’s doing these days, especially in the area of Flash, Adobe’s interactive multimedia format and Flex, Adobe’s solution for developing rich internet applications (RIAs) based around Flash. Adobe has provided […]
October 23, 2006 – 9:27 am
What if Salesforce.com were able to create a thriving online enterprise application marketplace with its AppExchange? Now that they’ve announced Apex, it looks like that’s their target.
However, though Salesforce might create a thriving market of Salesforce extensions, they may have little chance of creating a more broad-based online application infrastructure and market. Why? Because of […]
October 16, 2006 – 4:38 pm
The Office 2.0 conference attracted a monotonous crowd of entrepreneurs, big software vendors, VCs, and IT analysts focused on introducing web-enabled office apps into The Enterprise (a.k.a. organizations with fat wallets). Considering the consumer space is so peculiarly nonprofitable for anyone but Google, who can blame these technophiles for looking to Enteprise 2.0 in its […]
October 10, 2006 – 1:13 pm
I was intrigued to hear about Salesforce.com’s announcement of Apex, their “on-demand multi-tenant Java-like” programming language that allows for arbitrary customization of the Salesforce.com customer relationship management product. To me, the most exciting thing about Web 2.0/Office 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 (or * 2.0 pronounced “star 2.0″ as Coté calls them) is the do-it-yourself web. There are […]
September 6, 2006 – 4:34 pm
In the next week or so, I’ll unveil a website that will host podcasts on the topic of Office 2.0 in association with the Office 2.0 conference to be held October 11th and 12th in San Francisco. The purpose of this experiment is to extend the reach of the conversation around Office 2.0 and to […]
