Google Says Google+ Is Not Ready For Brands
Ever since Google+ was launched, I am playing around with it both for personal use as well as for professional use. I see Google+ eventually replacing Facebook for me (provided I convince my family and friends to start using Google+ and their throttling of invites is not helping my cause) on the personal side. Already, [...]
Tibbr 3.0: Making The Activity Streams Actionable
Tibco, the enterprise infrastructure software company, today announced an upgrade for their enterprise social networking product Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage). I was very impressed with Tibbr when they launched in January because they brought together people, process and context in a way to drive efficiency in the enterprise workflow. With this release, they are taking [...]
Social Shaming
An interaction designer, Joshua Kaufman, had his MacBook stolen a few days back. He is a smart dude. He had installed an app called Hidden on his MacBook before it was stolen. He tracked down the thief and asked the Oakland PD to catch him. They said n…
IBM Lotusphere 2011 – Social Is In The Air
I am attending IBM Lotusphere 2011 in Orlando and, as it is expected in this conference, Social Business is a big theme this year. You can feel “Social vibes” not just from IBM executives but from their partners and customers as well. Clearly, social has taken up big time and I would say that it [...]
TIBCO Nails It With Tibbr
TIBCO, the enterprise infrastructure software company, this week announced their foray into Social Computing when they announced the GA of Tibbr, their attempt to crack the enterprise social collaboration market. Tibbr is a social computing tool for enterprises which will let employees, customers and partners to interact with each other and, also, with information and [...]
Mindtouch Wants To Be The Nerve Center Enabling Social Business
Last week I attended Enterprise 2.0 conference and I saw the enthusiasm among businesses to leverage the Social Business tools to greatly increase the productivity within the organization. In my opinion, these social business tools should have the following three essential characteristics (well, there are few others but these are the ones I consider to [...]
10 Business Books In 2010
These are the 10 business books published in 2010, that I would recommend you to read. Originally, I wrote this on Quora, in response to “What are must read business books of 2010?”. Yes, I have read all of them, and no, they are not in any specific or…
Bottom Up Adoption, CIOs Watch Out
Yesterday I was at a dinner on the sidelines of Enterprise 2.0 conference and during the dinner, everyone present was asked to offer their thoughts on what is happening in the space. Since my focus is more on Open Source and Cloud Computing, I was more of a bystander in this space than an expert. [...]
CloudAve Special: 3 – No, 5! – Free Tickets To Defrag
Every year, when we get depressed about the darkness that is going to engulf many of us on the northern side of the country after the Daylight Savings time change, the only thing that keep our spirits up is the upcoming Defrag Conference. No this is not a hyperbole but a fact which many of the [...]
RightNow Enables Seamless Social Interactions With Your Customers
RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ:RNOW), Bozeman based company offering a comprehensive Customer eXperience Suite, yesterday announced the extension of their Suite to support Facebook. With this new addition, RightNow Technologies is taking their customers right to the doors of these social networking sites. The Problem In today’s world, customers are more empowered than ever due to the [...]
SharePoint 2010 – Unwrapping the Release
A live blog of the presentation…. Christian Finn, Director of SharePoint Product Management, and Alina Fu, Product Manager, Social Computing talk about the SharePoint 2010 offering. An interesting approach – Christian and Alina ran a “speed dating” session trying to message the major thrust of 2010. Christian pushed the big customers who use SharePoint to [...]
SharePoint 2010 Conference Review – Dashboards, Social and User Configuration
7000+ people showed up for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The conference was overbooked and many more people wanted to attend but couldn’t. Why all this demand for what amounts to be a large product pitch? Because the enterprise collaboration space is white hot right now with many companies looking to leverage collaboration suites [...]
