Archive for February, 2007
Mokita: The truth that everyone knows, but no-one talks about.
One of my favorite words, mokita. They say it’s from New Guinea. For those of us in the e2.0 echo chamber who’ve been tracking the developments in this sector, the mokita on e2.0 is that IT and “the movement” are somewhat at odds with eachother. Jeff Nolan put it out on the table this week [...]
Headline news: IT is wary
I’ve been waiting for this. A lengthy piece from a reputable IT pub on Enterprise 2.0. Lots to debate in the groups and in the blogosphere on Information Week’s study of 250 business technologists on the merits of going web 2.0 in the enterprise. Incidentally, and for the record, 2.0 is properly pronounced, “Two point [...]
Mashup Fantasies con’t.
Relocation is a bear. My lastest mashup desire comes in the way of a simple consumer interest to buy a nice house in a good school district. So, the mashup becomes “Available real estate” + “Good schools.” What do these two images below have in common? Yep, Google Maps. Now, I’m no programmer and API [...]
User Adoption Chronicles
Thank you Dennis Howlett for alerting the Irregulars to this story coming out of the U.K. The sentiment jibes with what I’ve been seeing lately about hurdles in user adoption. I know Jevon McDonald does not like the term “adoption,” and I’m happy to use a replacement, but mass adoption of web 2.0 in the [...]
You too, can mash-up. Here’s your chance.
I’ve been having mash-up fantasies lately (it’s a middle age thing). I went to Barnes & Noble last night and wished there was a simple mash-up that would match ISBN numbers of the books I was interested in to a map of the store. That way, I would not have had to spend a half [...]
Disruptive Technology makes smooth market for SaaS Integrator
Had an excellent chat this week with Narinder Singh, founder of Appirio based in San Francisco. Singh and his colleagues started up Appirio to take advantage of the next wave in enterprise adoption of SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors. With backgrounds from SAP, Webmethods, Borland, and Accenture, Singh and his colleagues know the [...]
