shift and share

Every once and a while you read an article that fully articulates a thought that was half-formed in your head; last week, the NYTimes had just such an article. Waxing about the “Enough Already!” response of many Twitter users subjected to the torrent of updates gushing out of the SXSW gathering, the article put a […]

This is the second part of my report on using Google Sites in a session last week; the first part was the “what”, the next part is the “why”, but for now, I’m going to confine myself to the almighty “how”. The first thing to understand is that all of the flavors of Google Apps […]

This week we wrapped up a session in Detroit working with New Paradigm, IBM and an automotive client to help put together Enterprise 2.0 enabled solutions for their enterprise and partners. Leading up to the session, there was a good deal of thought back and forth as to which tools we should use to put […]

If you’ve maintained a steady pulse over the past few years, you have – no doubt – heard a bunch about Web 2.0. It slices, it dices…it enables mass collaboration…etc. But what if you wanted to actually do something with this nebulous thing we call the read/write web? That’s exactly the challenge we have for […]

Excellent discussion between Don Tapscott and Google’s Eric Schmidt; part of Google’s Author series. This is a useful primer on the ideas of mass collaboration. An interesting moment, I thought, was Tapscott’s suggestion that success in the old paradigm makes it more difficult to adopt the new one…sounds a lot like our saying; “Nothing Fails […]

A lot continues to be said about Web 2/3/4.0, and as always, it’s fascinating to see what the various conceptions, definitions and understandings of it seem to be. From a very technical perspective, Google’s Eric Schmidt recently gave an explanation of what he believes it to be, and predictably, he looks at it from the […]

The English version of Wikipedia reached it’s two-millionth article today. Compare that to the latest print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which contains about 65,000 articles. Interestingly, when I Googled Encyclopedia Britannica to see how many entries it had, the first thing that came up was – you guessed it – the Wikipedia entry about…the […]

Wired did a feature a few months back on radical transparency; the concept of making a company open and interactive versus closed and proprietary. The examples given were, themselves, quite interesting. In particular, Microsoft’s “Channel 9” was a fascinating look at the struggle between the usual corporate cultural imperative of keeping internal projects, processes and […]

…that you knew what the next big thing was…it wasn’t. This article makes a point about web 2.0 making its way into ‘has-been’ status, with the next revolution being around spatially tagged information. It’s fascinating watching the technology – and more importantly, how we use it – evolve. Where Web 2.0 made information participatory, the […]