Smugmug Crashes
On a note left on the Smugmug Blog, a critical piece of infrastructure failed on Smugmug this morning leaving everything that was connected to the system pretty much so down. At time of writing logins are not working and the site is in read only. A critical part of our infrastructure failed this morning and [...]
Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!
In today’s web 2.0 world, sometimes the presenter on stage is the only one who doesn’t know what the audience is thinking – because everybody else is viewing the Twitter stream. These new prototypes fix that problem, allowing you to give presentations in web 2.0 style, with the comments from your audience appearing directly on [...]
Using Social Networking for Your Startup
Over the last month we have been working on building in social networking for our startup, and it is just now beginning to draw some attention. This is a good thing as social networking is a series of processes and systems that people need to keep on top of making them work. Here is what [...]
I love you Google Wave
My love hate relationship with Google just switched over to love today as I just got my Google Wave account invite today, and am going to spend the rest of the day playing around with this puppy to see if it will work for the school I work at. As we take a look at [...]
100,000 Lucky Google Wave Beta Testers
Google is rolling out Google Wave today, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others that are a [...]
Mileage Calculator a Life-Saver @ Tax Time
What tax-time, you may ask. It’s April 15th, at least in the US. Wrong: Anyone can get an automatic 6-month extension, which means the real tax deadline is October 15th… closing in on me … ahhhh. No, I am not a procrastinator, my tax forms are always almost done by April 15th and I pay [...]
FriendFeed Bounces Off Lows, Comes Back Stronger than Ever
Earlier about a month ago I wrote about what happens when a company got bought out by Facebook, namely FriendFeed. People invest a lot of time in social networks and when a social network gets bought out that sets up a level of uncertainty that the company will still be around later on. FriendFeed is [...]
Government 2 point 0 Apps dot Gov Opens its Doors
Image by bensheldon via Flickr Give the government some credit sometimes, the new Apps.gov web site is an open shopping portal based on cloud computing and web 2.0 applications. The web site is clean, sharp, and looks like it will serve a useful purpose if government agencies can get past the old way of doing [...]
Simplifying the Gartner Hype Cycle – 2.0 Style
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani did a good job of un-hyping the Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies. He points out some inconsistencies comparing this year’s chart to the 2007 version. He should know, he is a Gartner Alumnus himself. But I’ve been wondering if there was a way to further simplify it, i.e. make [...]
US Army Wikified
WetPaint is one of my early “discoveries”, three years ago I called them the “wiki-less” wiki, as it blended wiki-like, forum-like and blog-like features long before it became fashionable. I haven’t followed them closely, but apparently they’ve been growing nicely, and today I saw this post: The US Army on Wetpaint! – hm .. let’s [...]
Sterling Rant Goes Viral
I posted back during the Webstock conference about the Bruce Sterling presentation where, depending on your point of view, Sterling either crushed some Web 2.0 deities, or proved himself once and for all an arrogant bore. One of those deitites who came in for Sterling’s criticism was the father of Web 2.0 (at least the [...]
Webstock – Bruce Sterling – The Short but Glorious Life of Web 2.0 and What Comes Afterward
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, a design essayist and a net critic. He’s also one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Sterling says he respects Web 2.0 – and that it was a great success (past tense!) Web 2.0 has been realised, has spread worldwide and has crushed Web 1.0. Web [...]
Jott Wants Your Lunch Money and it’s OK
Would You Spend Your Lunch Money on a Web 2.0 Service? - I asked in October as part of a recession-related series. The key point was that software startups to turn towards business, offer value and charge for it. The genius in the Freemium model is that it allows new services to gain traction, essentially [...]
Has Best-of-Breed Won?
Let’s face it: enterprise applications will never be cool – and that is part of the reason why small-business focused applications such as Basecamp and Xero get more buzz. But apart from NetSuite and 24SevenOffice, who else is offering all-in-one fully integrated business applications in the cloud? Surprisingly very few. About once a year or [...]
Farting Our Way Through the Recession?
Global warming. The U.S. losing its edge in science and technology. A growing income gap. And what are the best and the brightest working on? -asked Tim O’Reilly, Father-of-all-things-Web-2.0 at the Web 2.0 Expo in September. Do you see a problem here? You have to ask yourself, are we working on the right things? Some [...]
