Daily Links - 2007/02/28

• IBM teams up with Google over gadgets - IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks.
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• What Should Our Web Site Measure? - With 8 million customers around the globe ordering business cards, letterhead and other printed materials from its online venue, VistaPrint executives understand the power of Web analytics for uncovering customer trends. Getting the most of out their data was a matter of measuring — and acting on — the right metrics.
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• Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, February 2007
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Daily Links - 2007/02/27

• OpenMake frees up Mojo for process automation - OpenMake Software plans next week to offer process automation software free for software development teams.
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• Business Internet Users Go Wireless - According to a new Pew Internet & American Life Project study, one-third of Internet users have used a wireless connection around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. Analysts expect that group to grow in Corporate America in the coming years as Wi-Fi security gets stronger and coverage range improves.
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• The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Analytics - he sin of vanity will whisper in your ear, telling you how impressive your stats are. It’s easy to get caught up with the number of hits your Web site has gained or how many referrers you’ve added or even which keywords are most popular. But if you get buried in the numbers and lose sight of your customer, there’s a downside as well.
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Daily Links - 2007/02/25

• Google’s Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded) - When it comes to software development, Google’s Adam Bosworth has a need for speed. In a talk entitled “Physics, Speed and Psychology: What Works and What Doesn’t in Software, and Why,” Bosworth, a vice president at Google, discussed why technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), PDAs and natural language failed to catch on in the past but are successful today. Bosworth spoke at Google’s offices here as part of the Google NYC Speaker Series on Jan. 29.
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• Alfresco Moves from Mozilla-Style License to GPL - Alfresco Software Inc., an open-source enterprise content management software company, announced Feb. 23 that it will offer its next release under the GNU GPLV2 (General Public License version 2).
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• Solving the 1:10:100% problem - Participation is the biggest challenge to the success of Enterprise 2.0 in an organization — as it is for any knowledge-sharing exercise in an enterprise. If you can’t get the people with the knowledge to participate in whatever mechanisms you build for sharing it, then it’s patently apparent that you’ll fail in that objective.
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Augmenting Social Cognition: From Social Foraging to Social Sensemaking

The emergence of Social Web has resulted in a spectrum of collaborative information environments. These social software span from systems with lightweight collaboration that identify faddishness of information (digg.com) to heavyweight collaboration systems that produce encyclopedia content (Wikipedia). We are interested in understanding the emerging behavior in social software, particularly how they enable social search, foraging and sensemaking.

Daily Links - 2007/02/22

• Social networks key to ‘08 race - If Phillip Lamb’s experience is any indication, the ability to leverage online social networking tools to organize campaigns may help make or break candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential race.
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• Google charges for web programs - Google has introduced a paid-for version of its web applications it hopes will be popular with small firms.
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• Is Snap Preview the most hated Web 2.0 function ever?
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• What Does Innovation Really Mean? - Consumers, businesses, and designers alike might bemoan the constant repetition of “innovation” in advertising, marketing plans, boardroom meetings, and brainstorming sessions. But the quest for products designed with improved usability or fueled by fresh new technologies, true innovations, won’t soon end.
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Daily Links - 2007/02/21

• Are you a Wiki Champion or a Wiki Bully? - The biggest challenge that most managers or work team leaders face when they decide to use a wiki is getting their coworkers to use it too. Some organizations have been extremely effective at getting mass participation on their wikis, others have simply failed altogether.
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• Software AG goes SOA all the way - As part of a new market strategy aimed at growth markets, business software vendor Software AG will focus on SOA (service-oriented architecture) products and services, and plans acquisitions to broaden its product portfolio and market share, company executives announced at a news conference Wednesday.
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• Cerf: Internet Reflects Society - The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it, said Google Inc.’s vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf said in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes.
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Daily Links - 2007/02/20

• How Novell Saved Millions With Open Source - How much money can a large enterprise save by migrating to open source from proprietary? In Novell’s case, it’s millions of dollars.
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• The Continued Emergence of Enterprise Content Management
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• Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets - One of the hallmarks of a good Web 2.0 site is one that hands over non-essential control to users, letting them contribute content, participate socially, and even fundamentally shape the site itself. The premise is that users will do a surprising amount of the hard work necessary to make the site successful, right down to creating the very information the site offers to its other users and even inviting their friends and family members to use it. Web 2.0 newcomers MySpace and YouTube have shown how this can be done on a mass scale surprisingly quickly, and of course older generation successes like eBay and craigslist have been doing this for years.
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• Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, January 15, 2007: 10 Best Intranets of 2007
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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 - The Impact of Web 2.0

Daily Links - 2007/02/19

• Swiss SOA firm puts modelling over programming - Swiss company E2E has set up a UK office to sell its enterprise application integration software. It’s taking an unorthodox approach to EAI - instead of selling tools to help programmers build interfaces that translate between applications, it has designed a interpreter, called E2E Bridge, that takes business models written in UML (unified modelling language) and uses those to generate the necessary data movements.
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• The mash-up future of the web - The way we use the web is changing and the future lies in mixing, mash-ups and pipes, says columnist Bill Thompson.
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Daily Links - 2007/02/17

• A Web 2.0 Tour for the Enterprise - Thanks to the hype generated by Business Week, The New York Times, Fortune, and Newsweek (among others), Web 2.0 has captured the imagination of consumers and businesses alike. But knowing how to leverage Web 2.0 concepts to fuel collaboration and innovation among employees, partners, and customers is another story. Web 2.0 can change an enterprise but recognizing how, and determining whether you should, do so is confusing. This article aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding Web 2.0 while discussing its practical applications within organizations. Then the enterprise—businesses and their practices—can embrace and extend Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0.
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