Enterprise 2.0 Software Patents

In a sign that Social Computing in the Enterprise is now going mainstream, Alexander Wolfe reviews 13 recent Enterprise 2.0 patent applications.

CA Acquires Cloud Consulting Firm

CA continues its acquisition strategy with the purchase of Silicon Valley based 4Base; one of the more established Cloud Consulting firms in the industry

Is the Cloud Ready For Open Source?

Ashlee Vance comments on how RackSpace OpenStack might finally open the gates for Open Source Cloud Computing solutions.

Will China Become The Leader In The Semantic Web

Do current events point to a future where China will be the de facto Semantic Web Leader?

GSA launches Apps.Gov
The General Services Administration has launched the long awaited Apps.Gov site. Intended as a one stop shop for US government agencies keen on getting into the cloud, the site lists vendor provided Social Media, Business, Productivity and IT Services applications.

Are Washington Post’s Policies A Sign of The Future?
The Washington Post’s draconian Social Media Policy for its staffers has raised the question of whether strict Social Media Guidelines will become the norm in corporate America.

Practical Web 3.0 Applications
An interesting listing of 13 useful Semantic Web application over on ThoughtPick

Is this the Best Enterprise 2.0 Definition?
Bill Ives has posted what is probably the best Enterprise 2.0 definition I have seen to date. Now it will be up to a vendor to actually sell Enterprise 2.0 solutions to a customer with this definition.

Is now a good time for Cloud Computing Adoption
Kelly Glynn opines that the current economic recession is good for overall adoption of Cloud Computing. I would agree that Cloud Computing adoption should increase for companies that have a compelling reason to change their current computing environments due to cost and or inefficiencies.

Who Gets the most ROI from Cloud Computing
Bernard Golden; in his review  of the recent SDForum Cloud Symposium, explains who is getting the most ROI from Cloud Computing. Bernard mentioned the main beneficiaries of Cloud Computing today seem to start ups, the entertainment industry, small business and large enterprises.

Balancing out the Forrester Gloom and Doom Predictions
With the recent predictions by Forrester and other of a pending large drop in Enterprise 2.0 product prices, Bill Ives asks what about market size as an additional predictor of Enterprise 2.0 product success.

XING is the great Web 2.0 Hope
Ian Hendry; over on ZDnet UK, gives a bit of hope to the Web 2.0 crowd with the example of Germany Based Xing AG as a Web 2.0 company that can actually generate real revenue with a real business model.

Web 3.0 is PR and Marketings next Great Hope
When did the trendy term Web 3.0 replace the straightforward term Semantic Web? Now that the Web 2.0 gravy train appears to be at its merciful end, Web 3.0 rushes in to save thousands of marketing, PR and conference planning jobs:)

There are a number of conferences and workshops with themes related to the Semantic Web being held in the last quarter of 2008.

First up is the 7th annual International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) being held in Karlsruhe, Deutschland on Oct 26 – Oct 30 2008. The ISWC 2008 conference will have a strong focus on Semantic Web Ontology and research.

The OntoContent 2008 workshop is being held in Monterrey Mexico on November 28 2008. This conference has many workshops relating to Semantic Ontologies.

The International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content in the Social Semantic Web (IMC-SSW) will be held on Dec 3 2008 in Koblenz, Deutschland. This workshop; held in conjunction with the Semantic and Digital Media Technologies Conference, has topics that explore utilizing Semantic Web technology with multimedia.

On December 8th – Dec 11 2008, the 3rd Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference normally focuses on Semantic Web Services, Applications and Social Networking.

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.

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.

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Top Ten Startups to watch in 2008
Zooped.com list of the Top 10 startups to watch in 2008

Enterprise 2.0: The Death Of Slow Business Process
Bex Huffs views on true Enterprise 2.0 adoption

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: Are you prepared?
Larry Dignan on preparing for Web – Enterprise 2.0

From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
Thoughts on how the progression from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 will take place
                                                                                                                

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.