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Jon Husband is analysing in detail the new BlueKiwi offer, and how it is a real tool to help changing usages within corporations. He demonstrated that this is a new layer to information systems, not only a complement to any existing IBM or Lotus infrastructure, which is the major problem for large accounts to integrate this new technologies.

Kimind is business partner of Backupify, and we are very please of this announcement. Backupify is a very important add-on solution for Google Apps, providing and extra layer of security to be sure you will never loose any data, even if one of your users is deleting it on purpose or accidentally. Backupify will allow you to retrieve any information from gmail, calendar, contacst, docs and sites, at any time. And having Symantec on board is a very impressive signal for the reliability of the company in long term.

Very interesting article, to put in relation with the "The web is dead" recent article from Chris Andersson (Wired). Yes , web in not the only future of apps (SaaS), apparentlly there is a new model of apps, for mobile and perhaps for other devices also, who are not web interfaces, but based on the internet. So internet is everywhere, but UI are not only web interfaces as we could have predict it few years ago...

How web 2.0 usages can facilitate business in this downturn period. I agree, this is very important, because using web 2.0 technologies, it is possible at the same time to decrease financial investments (essential currently), and increase individual and collective productivity and efficiency. I don't know why top managers are not understanding this in our countries. I know that this is not easy to change people behavior, but this is because most of the companies are very late in this change. If they had started the evolution few years ago...

A lot of problems with privacy in Google Buzz. The good thing is that Google is learning very quickly and changing the rules. The other good thing is that when Google Buzz will arrive in Google Apps, we can hope that privacy problems will be solved. The bad thing is that they could have anticipated all these problems...

there is a few errors on the features, the guy is not updated on new changes in both Google Apps and Office 365, but it is interesting.

Good news about this is that pure players of the internet are improving their security dramatically. This is very good, and a necessary step for everybody. It's why also Google is so much secure than the others, they have taken already all this actions few years ago, because fully of the security problems.

Google is on the good path, showing to FaceBook what should be a fair policy about data interaction. All datas in Google exportable, data liberation project team is aware of this, providing APIs to all the services of Google to extract at any time any data stored in Google services. It is not the case of other mayor players like FaceBook from which any data entered couldn't be exported, the most important being the social graph. Users should not accept this.

Excellent article from McKinsey about how web 2.0 tools can improve productivity and efficiency in the company. They are also very well explaining difference between participation and collaboration, which we are ourselves explaining it for many years. It's good to see this difference recognized. The different categories are very well explained also. But one of the key point of this article in the introduction of workflow tecnologies in this area. McKinsey is saying that workflow + participatory technologies is a key enhancer for the company. We agree of course with this, first because companies need both world, and second because providing automation and participation capabilities to the information system is the best way to improve it drastically.

"CIOs Ignore Collaboration Tools Too Much, CEB Says"

Dion is right, Google Buzz will be terrific for the enterprise, because this dimension was really missing. And it is an incredible move related to the competitors.

Microsoft seems to be very afraid of Google Apps. Here is one of the videos they are launching to try to demonstrate why to stay with Microsoft instead to go to Google. The problem is that each of their argument can be reversed! And that in this video they are defending a very traditional approach of computing, even if they could embrace the new one...

This is the big question. You know my answer, in the future we'll not need anymore files, because everything will be manager online (produced and consumed online). I'm living with this all day, the only files I'm managing are those received from external people. Myself I'm not producing anymore files, everything is produced on a SaaS service (mind maps, docs, spreadsheets, accounting, billing, timesheet, bug tracking, development tracking, sales pipeline, CRM, task management, etc...)

A new category of usages is rising for the enterprise. This will help for more mobility and more collaboration, because ipad will work connected and will be helpful with cloud based applications. I think this is very good for enterprise 2.0 adoption, if services will be adapted to the interface.

IBM is opening its online collaborative platform to partners through its API. Huge move for the market. IBM will become quickly a strong competitor is this field, they already have the knowledge for many years.

A very important information, because if it becomes possible for flash developers to translate their flash apps into iPhone apps, the market will explode completely.

I think this is Adobe trying to keep Flash relevant while the world is going to move to HTML5 and H.264. Flash is a proprietary format that does not belong on the web. It has been successful because it has been perceived as a standard, and a lot of people thought that they "had" to support it. More people are now realizing that it does not have to be that way, that Flash is buggy, heavy on CPU and bandwidth, expensive, and insecure, and are moving away from it. The iPhone and soon the iPad are just helping them move faster.

We are using SocialWok from inception, it is a really good social layer for Google Apps. It works fine and is very useful to create conversations around you documents.

Looks like Microsoft is still not getting it. It 's hard to believe that, with their resources, they can't come up with something more compelling.

Very important for a better integration with in house IT systems. So it is now possible to develop in house applications running like marketplace apps. Great, and we have the skills to do it!

A good article about the fact that email is not so important anymore for people organized in a 2.0 way.