Serious Business – Web 2.0 Goes Corporate
Via FASTForward Blog comes a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit titled “Serious Business: Web 2.0 Goes Corporate” (registration required, but the report is free). The report is based on a poll...
View ArticleWeb Apps with Offline Mode – Dojo Offline Toolkit
Reading Dion Almaer’s “Web 2. 0 Expo Was Poor?” (I couldn’t be there due to client commitments so I can’t comment myself) I noticed a comment from Brad Neuberg of the Dojo project. He’s posted a video...
View ArticleBrands whose consumers tell the best stories, win
David Armano points on Logic + Emotion to Alain Thys‘ “I Am The Media,” a presentation given at the Marketing3 conference in the Netherlands back in November 2006. The presentation itself is available...
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The Real Trouble With Twitter – There’s no There, There
(Image from Darren Greaves (Boncey) via Creative Commons license) I’ve been thinking a lot about – and playing around with – Twitter. These Dylan lyrics came to on the plane this morning, as an apt...
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Slingshot – lightweight apollo?
Today Joyent announced the public release of Slingshot, a framework for (their words) obliterating the distinction between the web and the desktop. Slingshot lets developers take Ruby-on-Rails...
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Profiles of Web 2.0 users and usage
Two publications recently came out which try to break out of the “everyone uses Web 2.0″ versus “no one uses Web 2.0″ argument and produce more detailed breakdowns of different kinds of people and...
View ArticleIt’s the community, stupid
Joshua Porter writes in “Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site?“: In addition to the explicit benefits for the site owner, implementing social features means building a community around...
View Article:Vocalo – the station/community formerly known as Chicago Public Radio
(via Reclaim the Media) I don’t normally blog here about projects Optaros has been involved in, but I think this article in the Current is too good to pass up sharing: “It’s public radio, but with...
View ArticleAssemble Enterprise 2.0 from Open Source
Optaros this morning published a white paper I co-wrote with colleagues Bruno Von Rotz, Jeff Potts, and Dave Gynn: Assemble Enterprise 2.0 from Open Source. (It is freely available from the site, but...
View ArticleEvolve or Die: The PR Firm in the Era of Conversations
At hubbub, Giovanni Rodriguez posted “Relating to the Public,” a whitepaper he and Paul Rand have written on behalf of the Council of Public Relations Firms. It’s well worth a read, even if you’re not...
View ArticleHow many of your friends are juristic persons?
(Updated July 8th) A corporation is by definition an artificial person, or a legal entity which can act like a person. (Among other things, sue and be sued, make money, enter into contracts, and so...
View ArticleNext Generation of Customer Online Interaction
While most of us in the U.S. were enjoying the day off and the summer sunshine, my colleagues from Optaros Europe were having a webinar: “Enabling the next generation of customer online interaction.”...
View ArticleHyperlocal is People and Technology
An interesting synchronicity (dare I say even a synergy?) presented itself in two different firefox tabs while catching up on my rss feeds the other day. In one tab, Andrew McAfee arguing that...
View ArticleSocial Network built on WordPress
(Via Photo Matt) Andy Peatling at Blaze New Media posted about a recent project: Chickspeak, a social network for female college students. In their words, it’s is “an organization for young women...
View ArticleCorporate Blogging, Comment Seeding, and Controversy
Jerry Bowles at Enterprise Web 2.0 posted a fairly scathing indictment of Deb Weil and the GlaxoSmithKline corporate blog (clog?) for Alli: Deborah Weil and the Art of the Fake . Bowles argues: Deborah...
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Convergence, Open Source Style
The Free Open Source Internet video platform sponsored by the Participatory Culture Foundation and formerly known as Democracy Player has relaunched as Miro. Head over to GetMiro and download the...
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TripIT Reviewed
Stowe Boyd’s detailed review of TripIT is well worth a read. Sounds like TripIT provides some of the features I wish Dopplr had – including the ability to pull travel information out of the...
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Youth, Social Networks, and the New “Public” Space (danah boyd at Berkman)
For a long time (well, since roughly 6/26) this Berkman Video of danah boyd has sat in my “to watch” queue. I finally got time to watch it on the train on the way to New York last week. It was well...
View ArticleWe Gotta Have a Presence: Failing at Marketing in Second Life
Is it possible to create engaging branded experiences in Second Life which actually help your company sell product, or at least reinforce your customer’s perception of your brand? In the August issue...
View ArticleGartner Web Innovation Summit Notes, Day 1
I’ve already written up a number of notes from sessions I saw at the Gartner Open Source Summit, which overlapped with the Web Innovation Summit. (Full disclosure: Optaros was a sponsor of the Web...
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