Richard Filing

                                                         Excerpt: ‘…. increasing evidence abounds that Enterprise 2.0 adoption has begun in earnest with a typical example being Wells Fargo taking the plunge, having rolled out Enterprise 2.0 platforms to 160,000 workers. It has become clear that we’re moving out of the early pioneer phase to a broader acceptance phase. From the production side, a brand new analysis indicates that the business social software market will be nearly $1 billion strong this year and over $3.3 billion by 2011. In these and other ways, such as the growing collection of success stories, Enterprise 2.0 has arrived.’

Lesson #1: Enterprise 2.0 is going to happen in your organization with you or without you

Lesson #2: Effective Enterprise 2.0 seems to involve more than just blogs and wikis.

Lesson #3: Enterprise 2.0 is more a state of mind than a product you can purchase.

Lesson #5: The benefits of Enterprise 2.0 can be dramatic, but only builds steadily over time.

Read the full Hinchcliffe article here

Excerpt: XML, on the other hand, is focused on structure only and does not say anything at all about how information should be presented. Billions of web pages today contain unstructured information. To people, this is a non-issue because we are good at semantics and we do not need primitive XML annotation to make us understand. But for computers, lack of structure is a deal-breaker - they can’t interpret unstructured, non-standardized information very well. Read Alex’s full article here

Download Squad reports that Google is upgrading space and security Gmail for corporate clients.
Excerpt: Google has reworked some components to their online business application suite and doubling email is hot on the list. The current business users, hundreds of thousands of them in the public and private sectors, will see their 10 GB of space jump to 25 GB. The next exciting addition is the inclusion of security features through the recent Postini acquisition. Although Gmail’s spam blocker and virus tools are pretty good, Postini’s addition is sure to set a new standard in web based email solutions. The new security tools will be able to insulate email from viruses and spam, as well as recover lost data, and also ensure employees are not violating company policies.