Archive for 'Web 2.0'
Can Social Media Save Red Herring?
Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital news and buzz during the go-go ‘90s but since fallen on hard times, has just rolled out a new beta online platform that it hopes will reduce computing costs and attract new readers and advertisers through the addition of a number of social […]
Posted: August 12th, 2007 under Web 2.0, Social Networking, Social Media, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Computing, Media, Blogtronix.
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FreshBooks Opens API; Lets in Some Fresh Air
The Enterprise Web 2.0 revolution has been a godsend to small and midsized companies. Inexpensive, web-based tools and services mean the little guys now have access to professional office tools that rival those used by the Fortune 500–at a fraction of the cost. Think Thinkfree, Zoho, Google Apps, and literally hundreds of other web office […]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 under Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Web Services, Web Office, SaaS.
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Free Webinar–Using Social Media to Buzz Your Brand
For those of you who are interested in the enterprise possibilities of blogs, wikis and other forms of interactive media, my other web site–Social Media Today–is hosting the first of our web-based colloquiums: Using Social Media to Buzz Your Brand, next Tuesday, February 27 at 11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific.The format will be a roundtable, and […]
Posted: February 23rd, 2007 under Web 2.0, Social Media, Enterprise Web 2.0, Marketing, Webinars.
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Lotus Connections and the Urge to Surge
It’s a familiar story. An occupying army is bogged down in hostile territory threatened on one side by a well-armed, well-financed insurgency and on the other by a group of innovative and resourceful fanatics. Is the wisest course to begin a phased withdrawal or should you pour more troops and resources into the trouble zone in […]
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under Web 2.0, Social Networking, Social Media, Collaboration, Social Bookmarking, Social Computing, IBM.
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Jakob Nielsen Hates Enterprise 2.0
Jakob Nielsen has issued his annual 10 Best-Designed Intranets list. I guess we’ll have to take his word for it since you have to pay $174 to download the pdf to see the screenshots. But, his post explaining why he selected these particular intranets is peculiarly unconvincing and in some cases downright scary. He seems to think, […]
Posted: January 15th, 2007 under Companies, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Writable Intranet, Design, Intranets.
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Social Media Popular Among Inc. 500
Based on a just released study of familiarity and adoption among Inc. magazine’s 500 list of America fastest-growing companies, social media appear to be making greater than among the Fortune 500 firms. In the words of its authors, the survey, conducted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research under the direction of blog […]
Posted: January 13th, 2007 under Web 2.0, Social Media, Wikis.
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Blogosphere Bites Disney
I have a post on l’affaire Spocko over at the FastForward Blog today. Nathan Gilliatt has an even better follow up here.
Posted: January 8th, 2007 under Companies, Web 2.0, Social Media, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software.
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Surprise! Teenagers Like Online Networking
Pew Internet & American Life Project just released a survey on social network usage that confirms what we had assumed: social networking is a giant and genuine sociological phenomenon among American teenagers. More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teenagers. MySpace is […]
Posted: January 7th, 2007 under Web 2.0, Social Networking, Enterprise Web 2.0, Irregulars, Social Software.
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Digg and Dumber
If you want an idea of what’s ailing America these days, shuffle over to Digg and check out the top posts for the past 24 hours. Top of the pile as I write this is a little self-reverential ditty called “Digg.com “Site Down” Feature Suggestion (for Digged-Out Sites” which has garnered 3394 gestures of affection from […]
Posted: January 7th, 2007 under Web 2.0, Social Networking, Social Media, Enterprise Web 2.0, Collective Intelligence, Social Computing, Wisdom of Crowds, Irregulars.
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Wall Street Journal 2.0 or Can Newspapers Survive the Web?
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows and you sure don’t have to count circulation figures and ad pages to know that internet has been a disasterous paradigm buster for newspapers in particular and print journalism in general.
Last week’s fire sale of the Minneapolis Star Tribune was only the latest ominous cloud of smoke to rise over the […]
Posted: January 2nd, 2007 under Companies, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Design, Convergence, Irregulars.
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