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….
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.
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.
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.
Unless you are just returning from Spring Break in Siberia you have probably heard about Guy Kawasaki’s latest venture Alltop.
Launched on March 11, Alltop is an aggregator along the lines of PopUrls, that was created for an audience that would never use an RSS reader or create a custom news page.
The OnDemand Beat was recently added to the social media section of Alltop. (Look for us all the way at the bottom of the social media page) The OnDemand Beat is in an A-List neighborhood, right next to GigaOm.:-)
The launch of Alltop has not been without its share of “controversy” as Jeremiah Owyang and Web Worker Daily articles give a hint of the wildy divergent opinions of the site.
Although I understand and use RSS daily I find Alltop to be very useful once you get the hang of the interface. I like the convenience of being able to have a quick look at the latest articles (preview of articles are available via mouseover) of interest in one place. For its core audience Alltop should serve as a gateway to the Blogs they are interested in and should not intimidate the typical user.
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