Enterprise Software
Here are my summary thoughts on the 3 day Web 2.0 Summit 2006 in SF, CA There were some overall themes that seemed to prevail in the sessions I attended and I’m going to try to capture them here in no particular sequence. It’s one thing to have sat in all the sessions or to [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes are in this square brackets.] Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist), Owen Van Natta (Facebook), Toni Schneider (Automattic), and Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media) On the panel: Jim Buckmaster / CEO, Craigslist Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook Toni [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] From the Labs: eBay Research Labs, Eric Billingsley: we now have 800,000 people making part or all of their living on that marketplace. labs employees are doing a 3 way split: 1/3 [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Ray Ozzie: Question: Does Microsoft “get it”? Answer: It’s a big company. Some people really “got it” – they got the shift that this industry is undergoing. Others didn’t get it. So I [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]The Global Plant Floor, by Don Tapscott, author of the new book Wikinomics Just now publishing “wikinomics” – a new book about how mass collaboration changes everything Available for pre-order now: First chapter is available here [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style, with Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of the IBM Entity Analytic Solutions group has some very interesting ideas on “the database of intentions concept” founded SRD in 1983 worked with the [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups. “Bezos’ presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform. “ We have an elastic database; [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “Atoms and Bits” with Robert B. Carter, CIO for FedEx Check out the Youtube video Fedex Ant Hill. The video shows the pattern of their traffic flows. I don’t really remember much of what he [...]
Day 1 Notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA Session 1: Enterprise 2.0 Mayfield had talked about SLATES – (search, linking, authoring, tagging, extensions, and signals) finally being possible on Socialtext’s new platform that they have formed with Six Apart, and a bunch of other companies called the Intel Suite. [I side with [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) NOTE: The following is the full-text hyperlinked version of the “Manifesto” that was first released at ChangeThis.com as a PDF file in summer 2006. Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business by Troy Angrignon with Nick Kellet, Ean Jackson, [...]
We have had some more great comments from people about Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business but oddly no flames or outright disagreement. Here are some links and comments from around the Web: I had the pleasure of meeting Jeremy Geelan, who was chairing The New New Internet conference last week in Virginia and [...]
My last post was on IBM jumping into lightweight apps and wikis. This news story from CNN covers how IBM is releasing Lotus Notes for Linux. Who’s using Lotus Notes anymore? Just the poor suckers who bought in and kept it as the world’s most expensive Exchange replacement? Bizarre.
Here’s a good article on IBM’s moves into light-weight end-user application development using wiki type tools. And another one on IBM’s move into Enterprise mashups. Has hell frozen over? Maybe we can go skating.
Peter Rip over at Leapfrog Ventures has a great article where he compares Web 2.0 apps with PCs back in the mini-computer era: Here’s the quote but I suggest reading the full post: Today the Enterprise seems to be The Land That Time Forgot. The IT lock-down of the Enterprise (because of TCO, security, compliance, [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) (This original post was written in July 2006. There have been MANY updates. Please read all the way through to the end of the article for all updates as my opinion has changed over time as the vendors have [...]
I have a new favourite market segmentation acronym: VSB. It stands for Very Small Business. Zoli Erdo has two excellent articles on this market segment (article 1, article 2). The reason that VSB is now beginning to make sense is directly tied to Long Tail economics: if your production costs are lower, your customer acquisition [...]
Jupiter Research reported in June 2006 that 34% of all large companies have deployed blogs and a further 35% will deploy them by the end of 2006, totalling 70% of large companies. I find those numbers shockingly out of touch with my experience and reading. It would be interesting to dive into this report in [...]
Joe Kraus from JotSpot calls it “The Consumer Enterprise“. Ray Lane from Kleiner Perkins calls it “The Inter-Personal Enterprise“. I suspect we’re naming things the way we originally called the automobile “the horseless carriage”. In other words, we are naming things based on the old worldview. We probably need a new name for the software [...]
