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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The next time the other people who live at your house start suggesting you might make better use of your time by fixing the garage door or watching a Law & Order re-run instead of writing stuff for a blog that even your mother doesn’t read, send them immediately to Rod Boothby’s latest posting, My Blog […]

Keith Patterson is the CEO and visionary behind Itensil, Inc., a web 2.0 software firm that develops web 2.0 user interface technology and provides a hosted service called Itensil Team Activity Manager.  The product features a unique wiki + workflow integration that enables teams to turn collaborative ideas into reusable workflows.  Patterson bootstrapped Itensil from […]

Charles Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive of Trampoline Systems, which bills itself as “Enterprise Software That Harnesses Social Behaviour,” is an ethnographer by trade and the study of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork, lies at the heart of Trampoline’s applications.  
In 1999, Armstrong became frustrated with the ”dysfunctional” nature of corporate systems and decided to see if […]

The Enterprise Irregulars clubhouse is all abuzz these days about SaaS (Software as a Service, aka on-demand, utility, cloud, utility/cloud computing in a multitenant environment, whatever) and whether it will put an end to enterprise computing as we know it.  The consensus among the heavyweight software gurus who gather there is that is that it will, it won’t, […]

It is a truth held to be self-evident among IT professionals:  geeks are from Krypton, suits  are from Uranus.  The antipathy between members of the code is poetry tribe and the non-IT managers for whom they often work is so common and all-prevailing that it has even become a marketing cliche–like the obnoxious propeller head in the CDW commercials who […]

For those of you keeping score at home, here’s a recap of this week’s exciting action in the battle of the enterprise wikis.  On Tuesday, Socialtext announced that it was the wiki part of an bundle of social software called SuiteTwo–packaged by Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s venture arm–to be sold through Intel channels.  The other pieces of the […]