Ken Gardner is founder and Executive Chairman of  SOASTA,  a privately-held technology company focused on developing visual software tools for the testing, certification, and demonstration of SOA-based systems. The company’s product line allows business users, business analysts, QA engineers, sales engineers, consultants, and developers to quickly and easily test and certify new web services, business processes and […]

You should never judge a book by its cover or buy a pig in a poke or gather moss with a rolling stone or any of the other stupid things we all say, but I’ve just taken a look at a few pages announcing a new web service called cyn-in, developed by a Mubai, India-based company called […]

One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that almost anybody with talent and luck can get into the game.  Unlike the pre-2001 bubble, which was marked by big, expensive software development costs and required the endless ramping up of high-overhead people,  much of the current phase of web-application growth is fueled by free or low-cost applications like blogs and wikis or built directly for […]

Google has released its long-awaited Web Office Suite under the curiously clumsy name Google Apps for Your Domain.  It is a private-label version of web-based applications the company has released over the past few years–Gmail, Google Google Talk, Calendar, Google Page Creator.
The immediate impact on large organizations will be minimal.  They already have too much […]

As the three or four hundred people who are following closely the Enterprise 2.0 - Wikipedia smackdown probably know, Ross Mayfield has made a heroic effort to resurrect the deleted E2.0 entry (and, by the way, how can we take seriously a Wikipedia cop who doesn’t know the difference between “it’s” and “its?).  Ross has […]

In the not-so-long-ago days when old media was king, one of the ways you could tell that a trend was really dead is if it made the cover of Time magazine accompanied by a breathless article touting it as the next big thing.  It took Bruce Springsteen a decade to recover from getting the Time cover treatment in 1975 […]

Frappr! is another one of those Web 2.0 mashups built by frighteningly bright young men in hopes of getting their picture on the cover of Business Week magazine (it was Rolling Stone in my day), selling themselves to Google for a zillion dolars and connecting with a lifetime supply of “hotties.”  Call it the “Entourage” business plan.  (It never […]

Senator Stevens Makes an Ass of Himself…Again 
“I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word ‘tubes’.”
US consumers losing trust in online banking 
U.S. consumers are not as enamored with online banking as they once were and are citing online security as their top concern, according to a […]

If there is one thing that the eager young lions of Silicon Valley excel at it is making simple things more sound grandiose than they really are.  Take the notion of a WebOS which is not an operating system at all but a barebones computer that provides access to desktop services based on a server. 
It […]

The Web 2.0 movement is just a Yahoo or Google away from touching off another round of irrational exhuberance.  Hundreds of Steve Jobs wannabes are once more registering cutsy domain names, writing heavily fictionalized business plans, and waiting–like a edgy band of illegal immigrants in a Home Depot parking lot–for the VC trucks to come around and throw piles of money at the latest, […]