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."

A very good demonstration that SharePoint Portal Server is not an Enterprise 2.0 solution, and that you must avoir using it if you want your users build new real social practices for productivity, reactivity, innovation and competitiveness.

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."

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.

Le troisième bug important de Google en 1mois et demi. Celui met à mal la confidentialité des données, puisqu'il a rendu visible pendant un temps court des donées confidentielles à d'autres personnes. A creuser...

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

a case study of enterprise 2.0 implementation (1500 users)

Synthèse d'une étude sur la réputation en ligne des entreprises

Malgré leur succès incontesté dans le domaine grand public, les outils de collaboration en ligne du web 2.0 peinent à s'imposer en entreprise. C'est ce que révèle une récente étude du cabinet d'analyse Forrester. Quelques chiffres : 68 % des employés utilisent toujours email & téléphone pour collaborer (!). Ils sont de plus en plus souvent secondés par la messagerie instantanée (15% des employés) et la web conférence (13 %) (seulement !). Les réseaux sociaux ne sont utilisés que par 8 % des employés, les blogs par 5 % des collaborateurs et les wiki par 4 %. MAIS Les outils de bureautique en ligne (Google Apps, Windows Live, etc.) semblent en revanche décoller puisque 16 % des employés y auraient désormais recourt. La transformation des usages vers les nouveaux outils de productivité bureautique est bien en route :)

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

Tim Draper 10 reasons why a startup fails

A list of case studies about social media and enterprise 2.0 on-going projects

Interview of the creator of the internet browser, and one of the initiator of this incredible new era of the internet.

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.

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.

Interesting article about how Marissa Meyer runs meetings within Google.

bad practices about Twitter