I’m not calling for wholesale changes here. But before announcing any project to the world the company needs to know it’s putting its global reputation on the line. Such announcements are news, a big Biden deal.
Until you know what a project is about, or until you really need to tell people, keep it to yourself. It’s less embarrassing.
About the business model of services like Google Wave, and why Google should be more careful before to launch products or before to kill them! Because even if the product has not a great success, the impact could be important.
C'est normal qu'on ne parle pas beaucoup de wikis dans le grand public. Ce sont des outils de collaboration, et le grand public n'a pas besoin de collaborer. Par contre dans l'entreprise on en a besoin. D'autre part c'est bien plus difficile de collaborer que de converser. Les wikis vont sûrement devenir comme les outils de messagerie, des commodités dont on ne parlera même plus. D'ailleurs les trois eules fonctions importantes des wikis sont la création de page, les liens entre pages et la gestion du versionning. Et cela peut se mettre en place sur d'autres systèmes que des wikis (exemple de Google Docs).
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...
Effectivement c'est un sacré retour en arrière puisque j'ai écris ce billet en 2006 ! Mais à la relecture, il est toujours autant d'actualité, et bien plus réalisable finalement aujourd'hui qu'à l'époque...
The best way to compete with Microsoft: allow MS Office users to use Google Apps servers instead of SharePoint! And migrate smoothly to a full cloud-based collaborative solution.
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...
The famous Dion Hinchcliffe's predictions about Enterprise 2.0 for the year. Here are the 8 predictions for 2009 :) But what about 2008 predictions? Dion's first paragraphs are about them...
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.