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Enterprise 2.0 – RSS hype in 2008

Monday, January 28th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

According to Read Write Web,

( ok, first I have to mention that my Netvibes Newsreader aggregates about 400 blogs and I also read a lot of blogs, but this is one which targets my main topics..)

Forrester predicts that in 2008 the RSS Enteprise arises. First only some companies adopt them but also in a Gartner hype cycle is shown that RSS Enterprise will arrive at the “plateau of productivity” soon.

A link from google image search:

http://download.messe-muenchen.de/media_pub/mediacenter/gb3portale2005.messe-muenchen.de/systems-world.de/systems-world/gartnerhypehype.jpg

John Catone from read write web starts with this lines:

“According to Forrester Research, there will be “strong demand” for web 2.0 tools in the enterprise in 2008. Even though 42% of enterprises say adding web 2.0 tools is not on their agenda, according to a Q3 2007 survey, Forrester expects that half of those will change their mind and embrace web 2.0 tools by year end. In the report “Top Enterprise Web 2.0 Predictions For 2008,” analyst Oliver Young gives three reasons why he thinks 2008 is the year that “IT departments will take their heads out of the sand and embrace web 2.0 technologies.”"

continue at:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2008_web20_enterprise_forrester.php

or buy the report

http://www.forrester.com/go?docid=43882

or leave the country for some weeks as I will do tomorrow. I just read that there will be rain the next days…i hope not the whole day! 

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Digital Natives and 40% growth

Saturday, January 26th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Fast Forward blog summed up a lot of articles and reports about digital natives and their influence in future companies.

Prediction in th epost” their influx will cause 40+ % annual growth in the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities ”

http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/22/digital-natives-making-enterprise-20-and-hamels-the-future-of-management-more-real/

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Chinese MySpace and indian social networks?!

Monday, January 21st, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

I just read a social network study of the “User Interface Design GmbH” from 2006 about MySpace usage. There was written that there is still no chinese Myspace like social network and the users from China expect a network in their language and never give their main email away  (and that Germans are some kind of voyeurs – we seem to be very interested in others life).

So a friend who is in China very often just recommended http://www.meet8.com/index.php or life365 which is THE chinese network site today. Never heard about it and also I could not read anything but this is a good market niche….

Hm, what are the indian guys using today? Perhaps there is some market space for a page…I should ask a colleague from Bangalore

The younger indian generation which are going to trigger the the growth for the indian economy soon when they get older is a really interesting market perspective as german and US students have been two years ago … A guy from Goldman Sachs predicted last year at a session about BRIC countries that india will see massive growth rates as in China primary in 3-5 years but I think there is already a page today

Update: Oliver just told my that http://www.yaari.com/ is popular in india

Update 2: Aidyta and  Abesh (from India) think Orkut is the most famous

Posted in BRIC, china, facebook, goldman sachs, growth, india, life365, myspace, social networking, studivz | No Comments »

The Crunchies 2007 – best websites from last year

Monday, January 21st, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Best overall Website (as expected):Facebook

Best startup (I love it): Netvibes

Other winners are: Hulu (video), digg (user generated content), Twitter, Tesla Motors, Meebo, Zoho… etc..

You could read the whole thing at:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3144

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/crunchies_winners_announced.php

Posted in 2.0, crunchies, digg, enterprise, facebook, hulu, meebo, netvibes, read write web, tesla, twitter, web 2.0, web2.9, zoho | No Comments »

What will Steve Jobs announce at Macworld on monday ?

Saturday, January 12th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

I think it is something with Wifi or 3G. It is portable, black or white, weight is under 1kg, the display is bigger than the ipod or phone displays but not as big as the macbook. Hm, a DIN A5 thing (macbook is DIN A4, phone DIN A6- german paper format)

Something to use the mobile internet, especially social networks and chats instant messages. RSS support is also a must have to stay in touch with the world news and personalized news. Perhaps you could also stream music from the itunes store and read books. A e-ink, e-paper thing with music access on flash.

A”be up to date and always online” thing. The ipod is only music, the iphone is phone+music, but lacks in the interface for fast chats with friends and is much too expensive for the fact that it is only a phone. 

Next to the expected major hardware release Apple also could announce a napster like music flaterate for its mobile devices. Definitely Apple has do change to MP3 without DRM soon after all label and most of the competitors changed their system. One more reason for Apple to combine hardware with music to improve its vendor lock-in effects for Apple products. A more vertical approach to the market which gets more and more competitive after the music major labels want to break Apples market dominance.

Posted in apple, drm, expo, flash, iphone, itunes, jobs, keynote, macworld, major labels, michael altendorf, mini, mp3, music, notebook | No Comments »

IDC, Battelle and Hinchliffe – Top 10 predictions in 2008

Friday, January 11th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Frank Gens just wrote in his blog about the IDC predictions for this year

http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=117

Predictions

http://idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20983407

I am working in a big software company so I should not make official predictions for 2008 in my blog…But you could also read the other predictions from

Dion Hinchcliffe  (on Web 2.0 things)

http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/web_20_predictions_for_2008.htm 

or John Bartelle (on internet/IT markets)

http://battellemedia.com/archives/004172.php

There are several points the predictions move in the same direction: SMB market will be more important. Consumer market companies move in the direction of the business vendors, mobile internet comes up more and more, social networking site will consolidate but play a big role. The major companies from the last years stay the same…nothing especially new expected for this year, open source thing and virtual worlds very mentioned less thant 2007.

But what is not really included in the predictions are the macro economic variables like the slowing down of the big world markets like USA or Japan (Nikkei index is only at 14.000 something today). Although it is difficult to predict if the going down of the US market and the weak dollar will have real consequences (and which)for the chinese market the IDC report talks about moving more to BRIC and next eleven countries for more growth if north america and europe is saturated and have less growth than BRIC or next 11.

But if the US market growth really slows down and the depression not comes to China, the high risk investments in next eleven countries are going to be reviewed by the Fortune 500 companies. Going high risks in downward moving markets is also not the best strategy at the stock exchange. etc.. Read the news there are a lot of comments today on the world market 2008!

Posted in 2008hinchcliffe, Blog, analysts, bartelle sap, dion, etc, frank, frank gens, gens, google, idc, john, msft, predictions, sap, smb, social networks | 1 Comment »

social graph platform wars

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

from David Mc Lure

http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/2105757707/

http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats

Posted in facebook, gmail, google, myspace, openid, opensocial, orkut, slide.com, social graph platform wars | No Comments »

Dataportability org

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

as most of you already know: Google and Facebook and Plaxo join DataPortability.org group…

The one thing will be the merger of myspace and facebook data in the future but this inside the networks behing the “please enter your password first und you will see the users which subscribed to this network. The other thing is  when plaxo joins this group too, could you then extract the user from the social networks from e.g. Facebook? Mr Scoble had problems with the TOS of Facebook after trying to do this. But the question is will we see such open user data in future? Plaxo is one of the coolest pages to clue together the buunch of social data of your friends

read more here

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/01/08/google-facebook-join-dataportabilityorg/

or here

http://scobleizer.com/?s=plaxo

Posted in blogger, data export, dataportability.org, facebook, google, import, myspace, orkut, plaxo, scobelizer | No Comments »

Virtual Worlds in the enterprise

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

After a long time some news on virtual worlds.

Forrster released a new report on virtual worlds in the enterprise workspace. At the moment the business user have to be more or less gamers to use virtual worlds but in future the web 3D will play a major role.

The report  from January 7th, 2008: Getting Real Work Done In Virtual Worlds
by Erica Driver, Paul Jackson  with Connie Moore, Claire Schooley, Jamie Barnett
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,43450,00.html

found @ read write web

Virtual Worlds Poised to Become Valuable Work Tools Written by Richard MacManus

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/virtual_worlds_work_tools.php

Posted in avatar, enterprise, forrester report, internet 3D, meeting, online, virtual world, web 2.0, web 3d, worlds | No Comments »

Olympics with Silverlight

Monday, January 7th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

I just read that the NBC olympics page for Beijing 2008 is powered by Microsoft silverlight technology. Good move to accelerate the adoption process

 read more at Zdnet blog

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=693

Posted in 2008, bejing, microsoft, nbc, silverlight, zdnet | No Comments »

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