Technology Mashup

Social Networking in the Enterprise Survey - (cross posted from Circumference of a Moose)

By Steve Nimmons

Developments in Online Advertising

By Steve Nimmons

Online advertising has been with us since the earliest days of the Internet and where ‘eyeballs meet content’ advertisers will always be close by. We have travelled an immense distance in the last 15 years. The first Web portals were (almost uniformly and tastelessly) bedecked with every imaginable flashing widget that might attract a valuable click-through. I will spare the early designers blushes but some sites would today come with health warnings for photosensitive epilepsy.

One for the Enterprise 2.0 diary for August...

Web 2.0 Meets Enterprise Content Management - Part One -

“Woefully inadequate” Web 2.0 quality costing firms dear - Increased software complexity from multicore, Web 2.0 and SOA driving up costs for companies

[SOA News from Computer Weekly]

More cat fighting with Facebook...

Facebook challenges German rival - Germany's Studivz says the intellectual property dispute that Facebook has brought against it is without merit.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Crying wolf on Facebook security - Facebook is today's version of the conversation by the water cooler.Why are we so hung-up on the security issues of social networking sites? asks Cliff Saran

[Cliff Saran's Blog]

Episode 68: Collaboration in a 2.0 World -

Interesting story on data mashups in the UK public sector. I think we need a competition to solve our economic woes and remove the extortionate taxes applied by the lame duck excuse for a government we have, but I guess this is a step in the right direction - for now at least ...

Government launches data mash-up - The UK government launches a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects.

This is the kind of thing that will hold back development of Social Media - the inherent nature of human beings! It is no longer the technology barrier but the need for a serious shake up of modern society to remove such nonsense. When will we see ASBOs emerge on Social platforms!

Cyber-bullies - New face of anti-social networking [BBC UK Technology News]

Really interesting stats. from Computer Weekly on Enterprise 2.0 readiness...

Almost 90% of firms ready for enterprise social networking -

A survey says 88% of businesses are ready to deploy enterprise social...

[SOA News from Computer Weekly]

Visa leveraging Social Media and Social Networks...

Visa taps into Facebook following - Visa, the world's largest credit card network, is paying Facebook $2m to advertise its small business service.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Given the pervasive nature of blogging I actually find this number to be really low and the title of the article pointlessly alarmist. How many people were arrested in the same time period for writing crank letters to press or politicians?

Blogger arrests hit record high - More than 64 people have been arrested for using blogs as a means of protest since 2003, finds a US report.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Leverage the Web 2.0 Approach to Collaboration and Content Management -

My advice would be for removal of all of the clutter on the MySpace interface and there are too many really rather annoying adverts. Group searches I think are also quite weak on MySpace compared with Facebook.

MySpace prepares for re-design - MySpace prepares a major redesign next week as it tries to attract more casual users and increase the amount of time its members spend online.