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Financial Times analyses twitter phenomenon. Very interesting to read. 'If Twitter succeeds in attracting a mass audience, there will be "all sorts of revenue opportunities", claims Mr Chaffee. But for now, with plenty of cash in the bank, it can afford to build its audience for "years" before worrying about how to make money, he says. This "build it and they will come" approach has produced many of the biggest names on the internet. It was the strategy behind household names such as YouTube and Skype as well as Google itself. Twitter still has a long way to go to join that club but, among the many consumer internet services that are struggling for attention, it has a better chance than most."

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!

"CIOs Ignore Collaboration Tools Too Much, CEB Says"

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.

It says here that "...contracts between Google and its customers guarantee user privacy." Do we have a copy of the contract or the end user agreement? There will be more people concerned about that and I would like to see what it says.

terms and conditions: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_terms.html and privacy policy: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_privacy.html the first time you register, you have also validated global terms and conditions for Google Apps usage

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.

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.

Very good presentation about the future of Social Networks. Fully agree with the vision, we are telling it also for a few years. There will be many networks, not only one, the same in the professional life, and the great challenge of the future will be to manage these networks and to manage privacy between these networks. At the same time social networks will be the basis of any work or personal relationship. So it is essential to reach this goal.

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.

Looks like they made it work well - but, of course, only in Windows so I can't test it.

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.

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.

Everyone Offers Collaboration Software, But Who Really Needs It? Whitepaper from IBM on Enterprise 2.0

Not too surprising, but too bad because I think it had potential.

Yes, and this is not so funny for those who were already using it in production. Bur apparently they were not sufficiently numerous...

A lot of new things is this area for a while. A huge step for internet videosphere and access to it.