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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.

 Another action of Google for aggregating  informations through search 

Lancement de Google Earth 5.2 pour les professionnels avec un accès à des informations plus détaillées

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.

The cross-section of HR and more mathematical / data - based approaches and social networking platforms bring interesting and perhaps controversial angles to the space that we are discussing: "... The chart looks like colorful pop-art doughnuts flying through space. The message, though, is anything but playful. Based on a mathematical analysis of work at an undisclosed Internet company, each circle represents an employee. Those who generate or pass along valuable information within the company are portrayed as large and dark-colored. And the others? "On a relative scale, they don't add a hell of a lot," says Elizabeth Charnock, chief executive of Cataphora, the Redwood City (Calif.) company that carried out the study for a client. The upshot for managers faced with a mandate to downsize: Small and pale circles might be a good place to start cutting."

Youth researcher Max Valiquette says those under 25 don't know a world where communication and global information isn't instant and ubiquitous.

Very insteresting survey about what companies and employees are thinking and doing with corporate information in social networks.

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.

Interview où je suis cité en tant qu'expert des systèmes d'information. L'étude, bizarrement construite, cherche à prouver que le jeu peut être une interface d'accès unique au système d'information de l'entreprise. Que le jeu puisse être une voie d'interaction, comme les serious games dans certains contextes, d'accord, mais comme système d'accès universel, je ne suis pas d'accord.

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.

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.