Team Think

Eight pitfalls of predictive markets

Dave Greenfield — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:15:47 +0000

Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won’t. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and doom for many an organization. Here then are eight problems you’ll want to avoid as spelled out by Google and Best Buy and others [...]

Software that Makes Your Company More Entrepenuerial

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:50:05 +0000

A class of social software is helping companies become more entrepreneurial and none a moment too soon. In a survey of 300 business executives, Interminds LLC, a management consultancy, found that nearly three quarters (71 percent) of business executives indicated that innovation was stagnant in their organizations. This isn’t because innovation isn’t important to the [...]

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

Dave Greenfield — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:54:23 +0000

When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn’t purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader, Asterisk. No, Snipes chose to become the first enterprise to [...]

Yahoo and Icahn Reach Agreement

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:34 +0000

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has been waging a proxy contest to unseat the board and push Yahoo closer to a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo said Mr. Icahn will join the board himself. The board will be expanded to 11 members, eight [...]

How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit

Dave Greenfield — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:42:02 +0000

A father and son team think they’ve found a way to make Microsoft Silverlight more enterprise friendly. Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, enabled their Visual WebGui environment to run any Silverlight application without loading Silverlight’s thick client on the user’s desktop. Instead, Visual WebGui redirects Silverlight [...]

Research Shows iPhone Penetration to Grow by 164 Percent

Dave Greenfield — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:18:10 +0000

Is the iPhone going to rule enterprise mobility? Consider this: a recent Goldman Sachs survey of its IT executives showed that 17 percent expect to support the iPhone 3G in the next year. That’s a “very strong number especially at this early stage,” says Goldman telecom analyst Jason Armstrong in a post by [...]

Sharepoint Addons and Mashups Strike it Big in Boston

Dave Greenfield — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:00:31 +0000

Sharepoint, RSS and Mashups are going to take center stage this week at the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston. On the Sharepoint and RSS front…. ….Microsoft and several partners are announcing new social networking, RSS feeds and other Web 2.0 technologies that allow integration with SharePoint Server 2007 so users can integrate internal company data with outward-facing [...]

SocialText unveils new wiki spreadsheet

Dave Greenfield — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:02:00 +0000

SocialText just announced its latest addition to SocialText SocialCalc, a multi-user wiki-based spreadsheet. SocialText isn’t the first to deliver an online spreadsheet, but it is the first to integrate an online spreadsheet with a leading Wiki and allows linking between sheets. (Click here for our exclusive, SocialCalc screen gallery.) With that said, SocialCalc will have a [...]

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Dave Greenfield — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:28:42 +0000

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottawa at a day long event. Dubbed Project Chainsaw, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Project Chainsaw allows avatars to interact with one another in [...]

Dialcom: Web Conferencing that Works

Dave Greenfield — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:34:34 +0000

I’ve complained about all of the things wrong with the way folk use Web conferencing. Now let me tell you about a web conference that went off well. A few weeks ago I chatted with a Spanish company looking to launch in the US. Dialcom (not to be confused with the Dialcom that was acquired [...]