Recently I have been asked frequently whether I am attending the Gartner PCC Conference June 8-10 in Orlando FL and, if so, what will I be doing.
Here is a link to my sessions.
I’m psyched about unveiling my new framework for building an enterprise strategy for social software solutions. I have been working on this for [...]
Entries from April 2009
My Participation at the Portals, Content, and Collaboration Conference
April 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Gartner Conferences
Don’t be Fooled. Web 3.0 Doesn’t Exist
April 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Unfortunately, the Web 3.0 propaganda machine is well underway (upcoming Web 3.0 conference). We knew it was inevitable. The powerful uptake of the Web 2.0 moniker made the lure of 3.0 irresistible. Watch as they try to make Web 3.0 appear out of thin air.
It is critical to remember that Web 2.0 was not a [...]
Tags: Web 2.0
Susan Boyle and The Power of the Long Tail
April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Susan Boyle phenomenon is a great example of Long Tail economics as applied to social software and mass collaboration.
Susan Boyle is a very unlikely candidate as a music idol and would be and has been overlooked by the traditional “all head, no tail” music industry. However, the combination of the “Britain Has Talent” show [...]
Tags: social solutions
Ning Now Has an Unimpressive 1 Million Social Networks
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments
A cnet article “Ning hits 1 million social networks” caught my attention. One million social networks is a lot of social networks even considering that anyone can go in there and start one up for free. Wow, what a success for Ning. Well, not really. The article goes further to state that about 20% are [...]
Tags: social software
Nothing Much Going On at Recovery.gov
April 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
It doesn’t take more than even a quick look at recovery.gov to see that there really isn’t much activity on the site. They may have missed their opportunity to garner a productive community. They are missing the social aspect and it looks like a very basic run-of-the-mill information distribution Web 1.0 site.
Despite their Q&A on [...]
Tags: social solutions
Will Ulitzer and SocialYell Dominate News Content on The Web (Eventually)?
April 15th, 2009 · 14 Comments
Hype around Ulitzer.com (the social-journalism news magazine site) is climbing. At one point they were offering authors 200% of their Google AdSense revenue.
In the US, journalism has log been a watch dog on government and business activities. This is one of the reasons that as a nation we prize the free press. But unbiased “true” [...]
Tags: social solutions
There is No Such Thing as a Data Mashup
April 13th, 2009 · 11 Comments
I feel compelled to step in voice my concern over the drifting of the term mashup. I’m not sure why I felt that mashups would not undergo the typical hype expansion other terms experience when the bandwagon begins to roll. I think much of my initial belief stemmed from the fact that mashups came from [...]
Tags: mashups
A Fundamental Law of Innovation
April 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I just spent about a week traveling around meeting with numerous organizations from many different industries discussing a number of the emerging and growing IT movements such as social software, SOA, mashups, and cloud computing. Some of these conversations reminded me of a mind set that I want to highlight here. Although for many years [...]
Tags: Aplication Architecture