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The world's leading learning event around the next generation of the Web debuts in Australia on September 23rd. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=599 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=599 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:02:34 PST MIT recently launched an innovative new online service that allows users to share "snippets of information about the minutiae of daily life" and turn them into a series of statistics graphs, offering full mobile support as a first class citizen. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=598 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=598 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:52:20 PST One of the classic challenges with traditional knowledge capture tools is that information quickly becomes stagnant and dies if it's not rapidly leveragable in a way that helps people with their daily work. Jim Benson notes that in this respect, some Enterprise 2.0 tools have blind spots of which we need to be aware. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=597 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=597 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:43:38 PST Web 2.0 was something that happened on its own while the Semantic Web continued developing its foundation. Now that the Semantic Web is getting closer to reality, here's some ways to close the gap between these two communities. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=596 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=596 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:26:51 PST There is a huge gulf between the worlds of enterprise applications and user developed applications and the traditional way of implementing enterprise systems is all about order, control and structure. This is antithetical to the entire Web 2.0 ethos. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=595 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=595 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:20:01 PST Selecting a social networking vendor involves driving deeper than product comparisons and requires a more thorough look at the vendors themselves. Do they use their own product? How do they go to market? Who are their partners and do they add value? http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=594 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=594 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:27:08 PST There is growing interest in creating architectures that can bring real-world information into online applications. Mashups can be powerful enablers for rapid information integration and the BBC has been exploring the possibilities recently. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=593 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=593 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:25:49 PST Twitter got its start as a consumer social network and communications service. However, a recent survey showed that a surprising percentage of users were intending to use it for business as well. Here are 50 ways of using Twitter for business. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=592 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=592 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:57:16 PST After years of germination and false starts, the Semantic Web is nearing an inflection point. With the potential to revolutionize what's possible by building a World Wide Web that programs can understand, the rise of the Semantic Web may push the Web 2.0 era into a next generation. Here's how to start making sure your Web sites are ready for this. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=591 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=591 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:34:27 PST Encouraging tool adoption is one of the biggest challenges facing Enterprise 2.0 initiatives, especially in the Fortune 500. Here's an important new story of how wikis had an enormous positive impact at a major corporation. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=590 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=590 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:18:27 PST The success of Twitter has not gone unnoticed and a group of startups have attempted to one-up the popular microblogging service with better versions. Rejaw is one of the most credible entries yet. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=589 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=589 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:51:35 PST Social Computing Magazine blogger Dion Hinchcliffe examines the evolution of the new Web and comes away with one inevitable conclusion: We're still calling it Web 2.0. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=588 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=588 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:02:39 PST Among a slew of updates, enhancements, and performance improvements, the popular Enterprise 2.0 product Clearspace 2.5 adds access to external communities, e-mail integration, improved customization, and more. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=587 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=587 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:05:36 PST The increasingly complicated Enterprise 2.0 space can be hard to size up. To help with this, Hutch Carpenter analyzes Enterprise 2.0 vendors and their key features with an insightful new visual. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=586 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=586 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:38:36 PST The ideas that originally formed Enterprise 2.0 are meeting reality in the workplace. Issues around information retention, litigation support, and dealing with highly collaborative content that gets stale quickly are all issues that needs to be addressed says David Le Strat. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=585 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=585 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:44:38 PST The online social world is moving at a very fast pace, faster that most major companies can keep up with. Rodney Rumford explores 34 top brands that are currently struggling with participation on the latest social computing darling, Twitter. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=584 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=584 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:58:58 PST Yahoo! has just released a significant new social geolocation platform called Fire Eagle that enables users to take their location information to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=583 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=583 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:50:22 PST Harnessing collective intelligence is one of the key principles of Web 2.0 and social computing systems. The new SocialPredictor is part of an emerging wave of prediction market applications that explicitly leverage the untapped knowledge on the edge of our networks. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=582 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=582 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:37:28 PST As one of the top organizing principles in software, SOA is excellent for connecting systems together, but mashups are showing that there are interesting integration scenarios that SOA should encompass. Jonathan Marsh explores why SOA should expand into the mashup space. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=581 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=581 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:58:46 PST This is almost certainly the first time we'll fully be able to enjoy the Olympics in social media instead of just mainstream media. Here's an initial summary of the myriad ways Web 2.0 is being used in this year's 2008 Olympics in Beijing. http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=580 http://www.SocialComputingMagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=580 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:40:05 PST