by Anthony J. Bradley | November 26, 2008 | 4 Comments
A friend, fellow techophile, and relative of mine Jeremy Cameron (founder of Simple Solutions Inc.) alerted me to Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit mashup capability. It is fantastic! Take a look but realize it might be a time sink What does this swimsuit mashup have to do with me and my enterprise you ask? This is a perfect [...]
Category: mashups Tags: mashups, social applications, video
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Recent studies such as Digital Youth Research and “New-Generation Workers Want Technology Their Way, Accenture Survey Finds” strive to understand today’s youth and how they use technology, especially for collaboration. Call them digital natives, millennials, the MySpace Generation, generation IM or make up your own term because everyone is focused on what the kids are [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: collaborative behaviors, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 20, 2008 | 6 Comments
An enterprise mashup capability normally involves a library of developer provided “mashable” components (gadgets and widgets for example), that are assembled and re-assembled by other developers or end-users to rapidly deliver highly flexible applications. Mashups are about building applications that change as fast as the business situation demands. Using mashups end users can build [...]
Category: mashups Tags: macgyver principle, mashups, Web 2.0
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 19, 2008 | 3 Comments
I can’t believe my colleague Nick Gall has not blogged on his recent research note on Web Oriented Architecture (WOA). See Tutorial: Web-Oriented Architecture: Putting the Web Back in Web Services. (Available for a fee to non Gartner clients). Dan Sholler and I also contributed but Nick certainly is the brains behind it. Nick coined [...]
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 19, 2008 | 5 Comments
Monday’s Dilbert was awesome. It is on my hard copy Dilbert calendar. It goes something like this: Pointy Haired Boss to Alice. “Alice, this year you did the work of four people and made over $10 million for the company.” “But according to our web monitoring software, you used company resources to look at a [...]
Category: social applications Tags: governance and policy, social software
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
I ran across an interesting BusinessWeek article/video “How Nike’s Social Network Sells to Runners” that talks about the Nike+ program and lessons on building brand on the Web. There are also some good lessons on building community. Nike+ is basically a program where Nike installs sensors in their running shoes that can give runners real time [...]
Category: social applications Tags: Sense and respond, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 13, 2008 | Comments Off
I just came across an article in Social Computing Magazine “Enterprise 2.0: Identify Problem, Find Solution, Then Tools.” They are a little late to the party. To combat the wide spread worst practice of “provide and pray” as in providing a social technology and praying something good comes of it (which is worse than “build [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: social software
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Looks like the Washington Post has picked up on the potential President Elect Obama has with community (see article) although they focus too much on the media channel aspect rather than innovative community mobilization. However, they talk about a Presidential blog. This is an interesting modern spin on FDR’s fireside chats. One of the most [...]
Category: social applications Tags: government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 7, 2008 | 3 Comments
Yesterday I did an open to the public audio teleconference presentation on the subject topic. It was attended by about 200 of the people to whom we reached out. The slides are available in .pdf form at http://www.gartnerinfo.com/aadi/slides.pdf. Here is the link to the accompanying audio. I’ll update this post when we do. Any comments on the [...]
Category: Gartner Conferences SOA Tags: SOA
by Anthony J. Bradley | November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments
Congratulations to Barack Obama on his election. It is historic and meaningful in many ways. One of them was his tremendous, and I mean TREMENDOUS success in building a highly productive community. This is Web 2.0 to the max. He leveraged the community to gain funding (sometimes five dollars at a time) he then used [...]
Category: social applications Tags: community, social software
