June 2008 Archives

Who can make sense of what's going on with Yahoo these days? With many predicting the demise of the company or its ultimate submission to Microsoft, the news seems to be changing day to day. Today, Yahoo announced another realignment... Read More..

I receive Google Alerts about mentions of SaaS and Web 2.0. I thought it was interesting today to see first: Web 2.0 Scores Success in the Enterprise ...and then immediately underneath that: Companies Wary of Web 2.0 It seems like... Read More..

Doug Henschen at Intelligent Enterprise has written a terrific essay that expressed a lot of what I'd been suspecting about some Web 2.0 type technologies -- at least in the enterprise. He ran an experiment in which he attempted to... Read More..

After last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference, numerous articles have mused as to what, exactly, Enterprise 2.0 even means. Some outrightly doubt that such a thing exists while others seem to indicate that Enterprise 2.0 has a very clear definition. Jason... Read More..

After Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo a short while back, numerous people predicted that Microsoft would ultimately be back and Yahoo would have to surrender to the Redmond Empire despite its initial reluctance. But on Friday,... Read More..

It seems cloud computing was a hot topic at this past week's Enterprise 2.0 conference, and many of the wrap-up articles being posted around the Web center around that. InformationWeek has an interesting piece on the real concerns that customers... Read More..

Microsoft got a bit of attention last month when it launched its Live Mesh service to synchronize data on multiple devices and machines. This week Apple has thrown its hat in that ring with its new MobileMe offering, which is... Read More..

The preview articles are starting to come out for this week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference, where all sorts of things ranging from wikis to microblogs are sure to be discussed. CIO Magazine's C.G. Lynch has posted a comment on the three... Read More..

Everyone says different things about SaaS, with disagreements going down to the basic definition of what qualifies software as a service. I recently spoke with Christopher Cabrera, the CEO of Xactly, about common SaaS misconceptions. Listen to the podcast below,... Read More..

In a column in Canada Free Press, writer Joshua Hill looks at the recent top 10 technologies list that Gartner Group released to predict the main interesting technologies from the next four years. Not too surprisingly, Web and Enterprise 2.0... Read More..