Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:57 AM/EST
A Stanford University study shows that people carry over the benefits of their Second Life avatars into their real lives. For example, people with avatars skinnier than their real selves go out and lose weight. The researchers call this the...
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:54 AM/EST
The Wall Street Journal's tech blogger Kara Swisher has it partly right in writing about reports that Web 2.0 is gaining traction in the enterprise. Swisher was working off a story by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb (happy fifth birthday RRW)...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:12 PM/EST
Here's a great piece by Alex Iskold that basically argues that Web 2.0 will make cold-calling an anachronism. LinkedIn is becoming one of the ways of warming those calls up, and now folks are writing basic primers on how to...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:22 AM/EST
Great article in the New York Times today about using virtual futures markets to get market insights. The gist is that instead of just paying lip service, corporate America is finally getting religion on the value of the collective intelligence...
Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:30 PM/EST
Reports are rife that Microsoft is testing an online version of Google Apps Premier Edition, or GAPE. If true, this would indicate that, despite protestations to the contrary, Microsoft indeed sees a threat to its desktop productivity suite (Word, Excel,...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:32 PM/EST
First the nonsense. I love it when a pedantic old rag tries to keep up with the times. As a public service, the Economist would like to warn us that just because social networks are everywhere "does not mean it...
Monday, March 24, 2008 4:43 PM/EST
There are fewer and fewer reasons for enterprise customers to avoid jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. An Australian business consultant just issued a highly readable white paper urging businesses to take part. Trevor Cook wrote, "You have nothing to...
Friday, March 21, 2008 9:48 AM/EST
Remember Barry Manilow's Mandy? It might be the most pathetic love song in history. (Full disclosure: I wept at it when it was released; I was 13.) In an equally pathetic attempt to woo a former lover, IBM is trying...
Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:27 PM/EST
Not a day goes by without it becoming clearer that IBM should sell Lotus (and that Microsoft should stop trying to sell SharePoint as a collaboration tool). Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb posed an interesting question--whether FriendFeed is part of the...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:40 PM/EST
Honestly, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer must be muttering to themselves. Why don't they just give up? Why do these also-rans insist on making life difficult for us? First AOL gets it into its head that it's going to muscle...