Web 2.0 - highlighted by web services, mashups, the explosion of leveraging Google Maps, Wikis & Blogs, RSS/ATOM feeds, REST, etc - presumes that an application is the value-add portion of lots of reusable services. In most cases, the resources are remote and may or may not have had the expected usage.
Moore’s Law assumes compute [...]

Upon reading a commentary from Irwin Lazar, Carl Tyler asks
Is instant messaging the death knell for email?
I think the answer is “no”. What I do believe is that individuals will gravitate to a single interface to whatever content they use most.
Email, IM, Blogs, Web, and applications all have their own user interfaces. When these start [...]

The world of corporate information and social networking are not just on a collision path, their already traded paint once or twice.
I think there are some interesting differences - and thus challenged - to social networking and social software in business settings. One of the obvious requirements is often “professionalism”. This takes on two facets [...]

I was very interested in how similar the BBC usage of social software tools maps to the feature-set of Lotus Connections. In the case of the BBC, they were ahead of the curve and so they “rolled there own”.
Euan Semple talked about his experiences implementing wikis and social software at the BBC. The forum is [...]