Collaboration 2.0

Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools

Oliver Marks — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:37:45 +0000

Clearspace, Jive Software’s ‘social productivity‘ collaboration software, hits version 2.5 today. This latest release builds on a solid foundation, and has many new features and enhancements, as the above video illustrates. 2.5 marks some significant upgrades - there has been some major tweaks under the hood to enable a claimed 200% speed increase. This is important [...]

BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook

Oliver Marks — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:32:04 +0000

At Today’s WordPress Camp in San Francisco - covered in detail by ZD’s Andrew Mager here - Founder Matt Mullenweg discussed impressive growth for WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month with 120-160 million unique visitors, including a third from heavyweight media sites. Worldwide two million new blogs have been created [...]

Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos

Oliver Marks — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:37:42 +0000

There are dozens of flavors of clever applications aimed at the office productivity market, often spawned as a result of the Web 2.0 explosion. Where the Web 2.0 application market is driven by eyeballs and their resulting advertising monetization, the enterprise 2.0 space is primarily focused on productivity. Here the product profit model is driven [...]

The Future of the Web

Oliver Marks — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:29:33 +0000

The semantic web can be quite a hard concept to grasp when discussed in an abstract way: the above video is a particularly useful, clear exposition of the enormous promise and power the future of knowledge sharing holds. Parallax, a novel browsing interface designed by David Huynh to manipulate Freebase, shows how contextual connections can be [...]

Humanitarian Collaboration

Oliver Marks — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:51:58 +0000

I was recently fascinated by presentations by Bob Iannucci (CTO, Nokia) and Ken Banks of kiwanja.net at the Supernova2008 conference in June around mobile technologies in the developing world. Ken Banks discussed how mobile minutes are a form of currency in Africa, showing images of mobile phone kiosks mounted on bicycles, Nokia’s ‘Ka-torchi ‘ [...]

‘ESME’: Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment

Oliver Marks — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:18:01 +0000

There are interesting community driven enterprise developments around SAP’s ‘Netweaver’ SOA (’service-oriented application’) and integration platform, with a sophisticated Twitter - style tool created by a diverse group of international users taking shape. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based [...]

Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5

Oliver Marks — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:55:47 +0000

I’ve attended every Office 2.0 conference so far and found it to be a fascinating cutting edge experience, and a source of both great contacts and intriguing and useful information. Office 2.0 is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering the future of online productivity & collaboration. It is [...]

Talent development

Oliver Marks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:23:19 +0000

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm Tech conference which “aims to sharpen the thinking of (the very well heeled) attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society”. There was a terrific menu of topics on offer: I live ‘micro blogged’ on Twitter (in this case using the hashtag [...]

GE’s Enterprise Collaboration Backbone

Oliver Marks — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:01:36 +0000

General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in the world. I was able to see Dr Sukh Grewal, Manager of GE’s ‘SupportCentral‘ collaboration and workflow environment, present a succinct overview of this ecosystem at [...]

Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book

Oliver Marks — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:58:38 +0000

Following on from my previous post about AIIM’s upcoming ‘Findability’ report, Daniela Barbosa of Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions, has created a colorful free ebook called ‘The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the right recipe for organizing enterprise metadata‘ Designed in the style of a 1960’s cookbook, Daniela does a great job of discussing a pretty [...]