Archive for April, 2008
April 28, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
 Attentio; a Brussels, Belgium based market intelligence firm, launched it Blog tracking tool Trendpedia last week.
Trendpedia; even in its current Beta state, is very polished and is a nice alternative to its moribound competition.
I decided to give Trendpedia a whirl with a quick comparison of mentions of Web 2.0 versus Enterprise 2.0. This comparison should be very interesting at this point in light of the over saturated coverage in the Blogosphere last week over Forrester’s release of a report that they believe that the Enterprise 2.0 market is set to hockey stick into the 4.6 billion dollar range by 2013.
Plugging in Enterprise 2.0 versus Web 2.0 reveals that In the past 4 months articles or mentions of Web 2.0 have averaged a steady 300 a day while mentions and or articles related to Enterprise 2.0 averaged about 30 a day during the same time frame.
What is interesting about the chart above is that posts about Web 2.O actually spiked 63% over the normal 300 posts per day after the Forrester Enterprise 2.0 report while posts about Enterprise 2.O stayed the same.
This simple type of analysis is not truly statistically correct as many bloggers use the term Web 2.0 or Business Web 2.0 when writing about Enterprise 2.0 applications so the data is a bit skewed.
But taking the analysis one step further I compared FaceBook (still considered a more consumer orientated Social Media) versus LinkedIn (standard bearer for Enterprise 2.0 Social Media) and FaceBook was mentioned 92% of the time versus 8% for LinkedIn.
FaceBook has had 94,000 mentions in the past 4 months
While LinkedIn had 8000 posts mentioning it in the same 4 month period
So although there has been much discussion about the end of usage of the term Web 2.0 along with the demise of companies that focus exclusively on consumer Web 2.0, it appears that there is quite a bit of lag time in the Blogosphere in terms of reflecting these trends.
April 23, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
IPod Touch may replace IPhone In Korea
Interesting article on Web 2.0 Asia about how a new cheap unlimited wireless plan from Korea Telecom may very well give users an option of using their IPod Touch to replace more expensive IPhones in Korea.
Web Apps may be the next stage of Enterprise/Web 2.0 Adoption
One of the more anticipated sessions at this weeks Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco is Danny Kim’s on Web 2.0 mobile adoption in Korea and how the trends in Korea may portend for future US mobile usage (if we can ever upgrade our archaic mobile data networks..but thats another article) of Web and Enterprise 2.0.
Enterprise Mashups are finally coming into their Own
Also at the Web 2.0 Expo, Serena Software, JackBe and Kapow plan to formally launch new and updated enterprise mashup development software and marketplace solutions. Look out for future OnDemand Beat blog articles where we will review each of these firms solutions.
Has Interest in Web 3.0 Peaked?
Jonas Bolinder, editor of Implemented has reported that mentions of Web 3.0 in the blogosphere reached its height in October 2007 and has not recovered. Looks like marketers and VC’s may have a harder time coming up with a buzzword for the next iteration of the consumer internet.
April 21, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Sun is hosting a free event called Startup Camp in San Francisco May 4-5, 2008. Startup Camp allows startups to participate in an un-conference networking event and hear from web/enterprise 2.0 experts, meet other startups and apply to Sun’s Startup Essentials program.
The event also includes SpeedGeeking, where startup founders can compete in the Best Startup Contest by presenting a 5-minute pitch of their business to VC led groups of peers. Confirmed guests include: Pete Cashmore, Jonathan Schwartz, David Berlind, Om Malik, Matt Marshall etc.
This event should be a great way for startups to network and discuss ideas.
April 16, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Oracle President Charles Phillips outlined Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 strategy during his keynote presentation on Monday at OAUG Collaborate 08.
Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 strategy consists of:
- Fusing Enterprise 2.0 capabilities into Oracle technology
- Delivering Enterprise 2.0-enabled Oracle Applications
- Focus on Oracle WebCenter
Oracle WebCenter, originally announced in 2007, is now in production and will be Oracle’s foundation for Enterprise 2.0.
WebCenter is an enterprise portal that can be used to display information about people, processes and data. The architecture of WebCenter is aligned with Oracle new mantra of “Complete, Open and Integrated” for its current and future products and solutions.
During his keynote, Charles Phillips oversaw a demo of Oracle WebCenter that focused on the ease of use of setting up Ajax enabled portlets with WebCenter. Quite a bit of the demo was used to show how Webcenter could be used to quickly get Enterprise 2.0 functionality into place within a company without extensive amounts of coding.
Oracle WebCenter is part of Oracle’s extensive and growing Fusion Middleware solutions that now include Business Intelligence, Application Servers, Enterprise Performance Management and the soon to be added suite of tools from BEA.
In a very short period of time Oracle has created a very comprehensive line of solutions for the Enterprise 2.0 space and will be interesting to watch over the coming years as the products mature and gain additional market share.
April 9, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
 Google on April 7 launched its highly anticipated development infrastructure called Google App Engine. App Engine is Google’s fully integrated hosted application environment that allows developers to run their web applications on Google’s infrastructure.
Announced at Campfire One, App Engine is currently in preview release and is limited to an initial pool of 10,000 developers. (The first 10,000 developer accounts were fully allocated on April 7th) Google App Engine initially only supports Python but will roll out other popular development languages over the next few months.
Google App Engine will provide 500MB of storage, 10GB bandwidth per day and 200M megacycles of CPU per day during the preview period.
The preview development environment includes the following features:
Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
Automatic scaling and load balancing
Fully featured local development environment
While not direct competition to Amazon Web Services or Salesforce’s Force.com, Google App Engine will allow developers to create an entire web application stack on the Google App Engine infrastructure. This will work great for developers for example who are new to ondemand cloud computing and will help them scale as the use of their applications grow.
Google has a number of applications in its appspot.com application gallery that were created with the first iteration of Google App Engine. Although their are only a couple of enterprise applications (versus the normal glut of Web 2.0 applications) listed in the gallery so far, I would expect the number of enterprise applications to grow quickly.
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