Daily Links - 2007/01/31

• RSuite Tapped to Manage Unruly CQ Directory - More on cmswire.com
• Koral - Collaborative Content Management without the Hassle of “Management” - More on zoliblog.com
• The Wikinomics Playbook - More on Ross Mayfield’s Weblog

Daily Links - 2007/01/30

• wikiCalc Gets Friendly with Socialtext - More on cmswire.com
• A Short-sighted Approach? - Why Good Conceptioning Takes Content Maintenance into Account - More on contentmanager.net
• Twelve Tips for Gaining Adoption - More on fastforwardblog.com

Daily Links - 2007/01/29

• Zimbra’s Open-Source Collaboration Suite Boosts Security, Tools - More on eweek.com
• WebEx adds e-mail to hosted apps suite - More on infoworld.com
• HP, SAP further cement ties around SOA - More on infoworld.com
• LinkedIn Takes Funding for Global Expansion - More on internetnews.com
• Business Intelligence Gets Collaborative - More on bpm-today.com
Tags:business intelligence , collaboration , enterprise 2.0 , hp , linkedin , open source , sap , service oriented architecture , soa , social software , social networking , social platform , Web 2.0

The Inmates Taking over the Asylum? Traditional Data Management Meets Web 2.0

It’s interesting to think about what the current wave of evolution in the internet (generally referred to as Web 2.0) might mean. One of the characteristics about what is known as Web 2.0 is that rather than the web primarily acting as a new channel providing greater access and cheaper communication, the emphasis is on the web being the platform itself, providing a basis for new levels of collaboration and cheaper participation.

For the Enterprise Data Management world there is an additional focus in this. As with the original web generation, although the channels available and information access grew, the data was generally still ‘owned’ in the same place it always had been. However now, the Web 2.0 evangelists and analysts talk about the user controlling their own data - which should grab the attention of all professionals involved in enterprise data, as it’s a big mindset change from where things have been in the enterprise.

More on Sam Lowe’s blog on Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy

BPM, ECM, ESB, and Security

What makes enterprise architecture both difficult and fascinating is that its all about dealing with a multi-dimensional problem. Focus on one or two dimensions, and the others quickly become orthogonal considerations, usually relegated to a later time, actually never really implemented. More often than not, security is one of these dimensions that does not get the attention it deserves. Dealing with security is a little bit like cleaning your house: when its clean, nobody can really tell how much work had to be done for getting there, and only when things get dirty do people start noticing. This post from security architect James McGovern is a good summary of the problem at hand, and gives me an opportunity to answer a question that was asked following the publishing of this post on the intersection of BPM and ECM: what about security?

More on enterpriseirregulars.com

Daily Links - 2007/01/27

• Enterprise Web 2.0 for the CIO - Found on cio20.com
• e-learning 2.0 Infiltrates the Classroom - More on readwriteweb.com
• 10 Case Studies of Forward Moving Intranets and Community Voted Intranet Apps - More on web-strategist.com

Online conferencing - an opportunity for resellers?

At a time when data centres are being lambasted for using ever increasing power and generating more and more heat, it is easy to overlook the fact that for some applications this might be better than the alternative. If getting together for a meeting had required just one short car journey, the energy used would be far greater than that generated by the data centre CPU cycles used to power an online meeting.

Of course, online conferencing is not the be all and end all. Sometimes there is no alternative but to look a customer or colleague in the eye (even this can be done with increasingly available video conferencing – but there are psychological reasons why this hasn’t taken off as much as some would like). But for many more humdrum meetings, making a special journey is increasingly hard to justify.

More on channelregister.co.uk

Rivals press EU to corral Microsoft on eve of Vista launch

Microsoft Corp.’s rivals renewed their call Friday on EU regulators to act against what they say are “illegal practices,” alleging that the new Vista operating system is the company’s attempt to extend its monopoly to the Internet.

The ECIS said Microsoft’s XAML markup language — which it said was positioned to replace the current Web page language HTML — was designed “from the ground up to be dependent on Windows.”

More on theglobeandmail.com

Enterprise 2.0: Where do I start?

Jevon McDonald has written an interesting article with some tips for enterprises on how taking into account Enterprise 2.0.

More on fastforwardblog.com

Blogging: Movable Type Realizes its Very Own Fastness

Jan 16 saw the release of Movable Type 3.34, a semi-distant point release which promises to fix some concerning XSS vulnerabilities and more notably delivers accessible scalability derived from the leveraging of FastCGI.

More on cmswire.com