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About what the business models of internet companies should be. I agree with this, new technologies and organizations should be applied to startups themselves, reducing drastically employees, charges and costs. Then the margin and the leverage with revenues will increase. They are the best business models, and every startup manager should be aware of it. Essential. of course, this must be projected to traditional companies also, this is what we can do using enterprise 2.0 technologies and organisations.

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.

Google's chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation.

"rney towards the social enterprise revolution. At CeBIT Webciety we have discussed the results of a working group that elaborated a set of 13 key statements. The statements consist of project issues that have to be worked on in order to advance the social enterprise initiatives in the organizational and cultural perspective. The statements are structured and related to the reciprocal relation of three key factors of the project: people, business/organization and technology. Between each of these factors the working group identified some critical friction points that have to be considered and to be worked on in order for the project advancement."

Not only Amazon and Google are providing cloud computing infrastructures. GoGrid dans Rackspace also. Here is the interview of the CEO and the VP Technology of GoGrid.

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...

Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some members of Congress.

Think you know what work might look like in the future? Zoho's evangelist (and guy who setup their data center) Raju Vegesna shows me how he can gather data from the Internet, process it in a spreadsheet, and build a report -- all within minutes using Zoho's free services. Oh, and all while he could be collaborating with coworkers from around the world on live data. This is a new way to work and it's pretty exciting to think about how cloud-based technologies like Zoho's suite of applications will change how we'll work

Very interesting video about how a young child 2.5 years old is adopting the iPad and identifying some ergonomic problems.

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.

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