Archive for the ‘web 2.0’ Category
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined:
The Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Abstract
This essay re-examines web 2.0 by looking at its technology stack and impact on enterprise computing, in contrast to the common consumer-centric point of view. Categorizing the landscape into Consumer Web 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0, the essay establishes a web ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
What is Internet Messaging Bus? Internet Messaging Bus is an enhanced web communication layer built on top of HTTP that supports two-way, bi-directional communications as well as reliable messaging.
We all know HTTP, the communication layer of Web 1.0. Recently, we also started to realize some of the limitations of HTTP. ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
My readers probably know that I am excited about web 2.0 and have been a champion for it for many years. Six years ago, I started a company (Nexaweb) providing software for building enterprise web 2.0 solutions because I was convinced that Web 1.0 has a lot of limitations and ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
In my previous post, "Every Organization Needs a Web 2.0 Story" , I outlined some of the business reasons why Web 2.0 is important for organizations today. I also promised to further explain what exactly Web 2.0 can do for enterprises in future posts. This morning I had the pleasure of reading ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Duh! Isn’t it obvious that every organization should have a Web 2.0 story? I know it is obvious to us techies. But the more I talk to the business community (including technology leaders), the more I realize that Web 2.0 is not obvious to them at all. A lot of ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
A friend of mine mentioned a list of companies after reading my previous post (Web 2.0 Movers and Shakers):1. 1-800-FREE-411 (http://www.jinglenetworks.com/): raised $400K A round + $26M B Round, located in CA. Interesting concept yet quite simple - My qestions are: can anybody explain why not TellMe Networks, 1-800-411-Metro, etc ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
At the "heyday" of the Internet gold rush, new companies bubbled up on a daily basis trying to revolutionize pet market, toy store, furniture, gay/lesbian commmunity, grocercy, CD distribution... To the point that everyone was scratching their head - Is there anything left to do at all?
Yes, we have tried a ...
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Anil Sharma wrote a fairly good comment about some aspects of web 2.0, in particular, related to collaboration. I think this is a key area that web 2.0 can help make a big difference in a business context.
Google launched spreadsheet (http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/try_out.html) - do you honestly think google plan go compete ...
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Tim Oreilly wrote one of the first articles trying to define "web 2.0" (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html). This article is influential in helping establishing the concept of web 2.0, but it is very consumer focused and does not get into what web 2.0 is for business.
Dion Hinchcliffe maintains a fairly good blog about ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
There are lots of conversations around web 2.0. Some people are very skeptical while some are excited about it. There are many startups in the web 2.0 movement:
zimbra.com, heyletsgo.com, meebo.com, writerly.com, Kiko.com, redit.com, etc. Each of them is cool, exciting, while there is no apparent business model looking from the ...
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