Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 16, 2009
One of the highlights of last June’s Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) describing how their ‘Intellipedia‘ wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten months later Time magazine picked up the story - ‘CIA discovers Web 2.0‘ [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 21, 2009
One of the principal things nearly anyone does on Google.com is a vanity search: We ask the question: What do people see when they put my name into Google? Today, Google is announcing , for the first time, that anyone can change what is seen. (The initial launch is US only). This, to be clear, is a Very Big Deal. Joe Kraus, one of the founders of Excite and founder of JotSpot, is now at Google, and this new feature is his baby.
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ChiefTech
APRIL 20, 2009
I was talking about this the other day. Now I don't want to pick on Wollongong City Council (WCC) specifically, but as they are my local council I just thought I would demonstrate how easy it is to start Web 2.0'ifying local council Websites if people put their minds to it. Currently there are no RSS feeds on the WCC Website, but luckily the back end is all SharePoint and it does natively support RSS (thank goodness).
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 28, 2009
On March 17, 2009, the Article 29 Working Party released Opinion 3/2009 on the Commission’s draft decision for standard contractual clauses (SCCs), which discusses proposed updates of the clauses allowing the transfer of personal data to sub-processors established in third-world countries, in light of increased global outsourcing practices. Opinion 3/2009 is available here , and further analysis on the Working Party’s Opinion is available here.
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Information Matters
APRIL 14, 2009
Short but insightful interview by Freepint’s VIP with Steven Goldstein of Alacra. Alacra is an interesting company that seems to have an innovative approach to combining publicly available and premium content and creating a range of focused business-oriented information services. I admire Steven’s honesty when asked about Alacra’s success in converting referrals from search engines into paying customers: “I mean the conversion is really, really low.
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Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 11, 2009
A great talk by the inventor of the internet Tim Berners-Lee from this year’s TED conference, well worth spending 18 minutes of your life with. It’s also worth reflecting on how new the internet is: in January 1992 there were only 50 web servers in the world after the web’s invention in 1990.As Berners-Lee says in [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 8, 2009
Oracle are announcing the ability to drill down into sensitive behind-the-firewall data via gadgets securely embedded in Google Sites web pages powered by Google Secure Data Connectors (GSDC). If that last sentence was a mouthful, think of it this way: where we rely heavily on VPN today to connect with rich contextual Oracle information behind your [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 23, 2009
Gary & the Hornets Oskar Weiner US TV Commercial, 1967 While it is highly desirable to stimulate dialog between business units, individuals, partners and of course customers in order to encourage cross pollination and capture ideas collaboratively, there is a parallel challenge of the quality and quantity of information. Tammy Erickson’s ‘Across the Ages’ blog on Harvard [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 18, 2009
Microsoft’s XBox 360’s core technology was essentially funded and developed by Sony without them knowing, as detailed in the excellent book ‘The Race for a New Games Machine‘ by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps. Sony partnered with Toshiba and IBM in 2001 to begin creation of the ‘Cell’ processor - a powerful, state of the art [.
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Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 14, 2009
Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe’s ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we’re at a point where many of the tech movements that characterized the period of economic expansion (which sadly left the [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 7, 2009
Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the Harvard Business Review entitled ‘When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company‘ Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: ‘Collaboration can deliver tremendous benefits (innovative offerings, new sales).
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 30, 2009
Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many companies also ban access to any social networking or instant messaging software for [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 28, 2009
With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption. Legal compliance touches all parts of business, from the dullest process work to the [.
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Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 20, 2009
There’s a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable ‘Enterprise 2.0′ market) this weekend, titled ‘Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business‘ on the ‘Fast Forward’ blog, which is focused around the FAST search technology Microsoft bought in April 2008 and their sponsored [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 5, 2009
I attended last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco with a sense of trepidation. A year ago this event was jam packed and had a celebratory, in some cases cocky atmosphere - I was worried this time the expo would be a washout as a result of the gloomy economy. in the event it [.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 2, 2009
Mindtouch announce today a new message bus that enables bi-directional notifications when changes are made both within MindTouch 2009 or to the many applications that users plug into or connect to with MindTouch 2009. Examples of these could be Web services, enterprise systems, databases, office productivity applications and more. This bi-directional messaging and publishing capability pushes out [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 1, 2009
J ust got confirmation from a very reliable source that Newscorp, eager to repeat its early success with MySpace (though not its later decline) has closed a definitive purchase of Twitter for "at least $750mm in cash.". "We see Twitter as a key strategic asset for Newscorp," the source told me, promising "not to muck it up too badly with home page takeover ads, at least, not this year.".
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John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 26, 2009
If you want to know why Facebook is working so damn hard to open up its site and make the newsfeed and statuses its main currency, why Google and Microsoft are fighting to incorporate real time/super fresh results into their SERPs, and why it seems everywhere you look, people are talking about Twitter, then look no further than these graphs, from Compete and Quantcast.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 26, 2009
I nearly re-upped my subscription to the online version of the WSJ this evening, so as to read this piece: Facebook Opens Site To Developers Of Services. But I found the text here - also on the WSJ site. Genie's outta the bottle. From it: The announcement, expected Monday, means developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users' permission.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 6, 2009
It's not easy being the oxygen of the Internet economy. Google is starting to take blows from every side. Check out the first five headlines from IWantMedia this morning. First, the Post (which I don't trust much as a rule, given its broad use of unnamed sources) follows last week's speculation around a Twitter acquisition with the headline that Google is talking to Twitter as a "defensive move.".
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 5, 2009
Matt reminds us of a time when Google used to promote its competition just in case you didn't find what you wanted on Google. Can you imagine such a thing happening now? My, how the times have changed. It'd really be a shock to see this attitude now, and Matt's post reminds me how common it was back then to point to competition. Sad, in a way, we have lost something as the industry has "matured.".
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John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 3, 2009
Speculation is rife that Twitter and Google are possibly in serious discussions about an acquisition. (No, it's not April Fool's Day anymore). Others say there's no deal on the table at all. Well, of course they are talking, both parties would be crazy not to be at least doing that. (See Twitter = YouTube , et al). What I do know is that Google is testing a Twitter-related ad product through its AdSense network.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 30, 2009
Should have noted David Rosenblatt leaving Google yesterday , yet another senior, well regarded exec finding Google not the place to be these days, also, Tim Armstrong has hired a Google colleague to replace the head of AOL sales, so there's a trifecta. Also buzzing: Time Warner is looking to buy back its AOL shares from Google (remember that deal?!
ChiefTech
APRIL 29, 2009
I know I said I probably wouldn't be cross posting from the Headshift Australasia blog, but I thought you might be interested in two events where I'm presenting over the next few months: Connecting Up 2009 - 11th-12th May, Sydney Web 2.0 in Government Conference 2009 - 24th June, Sydney More details over on the HOZ blog. PS Also, have you heard about Senator Kate Lundy's first 'Public Sphere' next week ?
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 29, 2009
Google cannot like the parallels (with Microsoft, in the late 90s). The DOJ has opened an inquiry into its book deal (one I have not, to be honest, entirely grokked. In fact, neither has my agent or my publisher, which is rather interesting.). From the NYT: The inquiry does not necessarily mean that the department will oppose the settlement, which is subject to a court review.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 28, 2009
Over and over I've predicted that Google will be forced to act like a publisher, because there's only so much demand that can be harvested, and sooner or later, Google's core revenue-generating customers - that'd be marketers - will demand some help creating supply. Supply means branding, and branding happens in the magical world of publishing. Here are two additional Google initiatives that point the company toward that world: Google launches Digg-like feature.
ChiefTech
APRIL 23, 2009
Today, it is one year since we held the global Enterprise RSS Day of Action - with the help from many people, including vendors like Attensa and Newsgator, the aim was to raise awareness of this critical element of back end plumbing for Enterprise 2.0. I'm not going to make a big deal about the day of action today or suggest we hold another one (unless you really want too!).
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 22, 2009
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding notification for security breaches involving electronic health information. The FTC issued the proposal pursuant to certain health information technology provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law on February 17th, 2009. The Commission’s proposal includes a requirement that vendors of personal health records notify U.S. citizens and residents if their personal health i
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