Archive for the 'Enterprise 3.0' Category
May 14, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Eastman Kodak Gets Web 2.0 Religion
You know that Web 2.0 is mainstream when the oldest of the old guard companies; Eastman Kodak, appoints a Chief Blogger.
The Acronym Game Begins Anew With Platform As A Service
No sooner had some bloggers declared usage of the acronyms Web 3.0 & Enterprise 3.0 verboten for describing the next iteration of the consumer and business Internet, Salesforce.com, Google and others have rushed in with Platform as a Service as a worthy acronym to replace them.
Enterprise 2.0 In 12 Steps
CIO magazine’s 12 step program for adopting Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
Will Iceberg Sink Traditional Software Development
Phil Butler believes that traditional software development is soon to be usurped by Enterprise Mashups. According to Iceberg CEO; Wayne Byrne, Iceberg will do most of the usurping because it “Can do everything your average enterprise mashup can do (like Kapow for example) + everything Salesforce can do in one application.” Wow….
Why the Enterprise Wont Save Web 2.0
Charles Hudson gives very compelling arguments as to why Web 2.0 repackaged for the Enterprise wont necessarily translate into revenue for Web 2.0 firms.
March 3, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
One of the aspects of social media in the enterprise that has been hard to quantify is Community Participation. There are a number of arbitrary measurements that Enterprise 2.0 solutions providers and end users have cobbled together but up until recently there has not been a tried and proven method to calculate community participation.
To solve this vexing issue, Peter Reiser and the team at Sun have completed and filed a patent on the Community Equity Specification.
The Community Equity Specification has an algorithm that capture 2 variables - information equity (IQ) and personal equity (PEQ). Sun defines IQ as the social activities around information that is calculated into a numeric value which represents the importance, relevance and quality of a information. PEQ is a numeric value calculated for an individual that helps recognize their achievements and their participation in a community.
The PEQ algorithm looks to be the most complex aspect of the specification and is probably the piece of the specification that Sun has filed the patent on.
Sun has the specification in pilot stage and it will be interesting to see how Sun goes about releasing the specification for use once the pilot and beta testing is complete.
February 19, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
The W3C Semantic Web Group recently standardized its recommendation for the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web.
SPARQL (pronounced Sparkle) is a query language for RDF that can be used against diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL in many ways opens the door to the true Semantic Web and once fully adopted as the main RDF query language, will accelerate creation of advanced automated data sharing applications.
Ivan Herman recently presented a tutorial entitled “Introduction to the Semantic Web” that gives a great overview of how the Semantic Web works.
December 20, 2007
Written by Ameed Taylor
Tien Tzuo, Chief Strategy Officer for Salesforce.com, reviews how the traditional sales model for Enterprise Software should be adopted for Enterprise 2.0 and 3.0 software.
This video is from the excellent Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
November 27, 2007
Written by Ameed Taylor
The OnDemand Beat Blog will focus on Enterprise 2.0 and 3.0 startups and technology. As an added twist this Blog will focus not only on the startup and technology scene in the US, but will have a strong emphasis on review and discussion of Enterprise 2.0 - 3.0 startups and technology in Asia and Europe.
My interest in Enterprise 2.0 and 3.0 started a few years back when I joined a startup ASP in the Bay area called Qwest Cyber Solutions. (QCS) This startup (like many other ASP’s in the dot com boom years) was a bit ahead of the technology curve and unlike the more lean and mean Enterprise and Web 2.0 firms of today had expensive fixed overhead & personnel costs. Qwest Communications sold QCS to a competing ASP, Corio in 2002 and Corio was later purchased by IBM.
My experience with QCS led me to form a startup called Applation; whose primary focus is the development of On Demand Data Integration solutions. We started Applation prior to the height of the current web 2.0 craze and have kept the focus on developing On Demand Solutions for the Enterprise versus consumer.
Thus like Applation, the OnDemand Beat blog will focus on the Enterprise and firms like YooPlus, Attensa, KnowNow and Worklight.
Large firms like Google, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft will also be featured in the blog as they are all either organically developing or acquiring Enterprise 2.0 and 3.0 expertise.
Please send me comments and tips on companies and technologies you would like me to review on the OnDemand Beat Blog.
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