FASTforward - The Blog
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Discuss and debate how a new generation of search and search-driven applications are impacting the way we do business, compete, learn, build communities, socialize, and save, store, and search data.
The blog, like FASTforward '07, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how today’s companies can "Innovate, Accelerate and Dominate."
Please join us for what we hope will be a fun and engaging conversation that begins on the blog, is fully extended and realized at the conference, and, if we’re lucky, continues on past the conference.
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Portals or Content Service - The Future of Newspapers?
We have been hearing about the imminent collapse of the newspaper business for the past few years. Various reasons are often cited, including: declining revenue from subscriptions and newsstand sales; declining revenue from ad sales in the print editions; and declining revenue from classifieds. In a nutshell, declining revenue from all things print related as [...]
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Luis Suarez’s E-Mail Liberation – An Inspiration to the Rest of Us
I briefly talked about this issue on my own blog and am expanding on it here. I finally met my long time virtual friend, Luis Suarez at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston in June. He talked to me about getting rid of much of his email. A few days later I found out that [...]
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Content in a world where it is infinite - Dr Horrible
We are all struggling to find a way of making content valuable again. When it was scarce and you could only see it on a big screen or on your TV on a certain channel in a certain place at a certain time - the content had the value of scarcity. But now….? With as [...]
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KETC - The emerging role for Pub Media - The Social Convener
Social Media for what? As the shadows lengthen, I am seeing that the new role for public media is not simply to bring you Jane Austen on Sundays - though that is worthy - but to use the trust evoked in a generation public TV and radio to help us as citizens help each [...]
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Social Media and Search: Where We Are Now and Where We Could Be
Search has not been at the forefront for many social media sites. They’ve focused on drawing traffic, building a brand, and looking for a business model. But, there is a great opportunity for social media sites to leverage search in new ways. I decided to take a look at a few top social media sites [...]
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Creating Order out of Chaos: Virtual Conference on Enterprise 2.0
It couldn’t be more appropriate for the subject of Enterprise 2.0 than a virtual conference? ebizQ will be hosting a virtual conference covering various aspects of Enterprise 2.0 opportunities and challenges on July 23rd. (Free registration required.)
David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow, will kick off the event with a discussion of how innovations in [...]
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NPR cancel Bryant Park Project - Can a hybrid work?
It was announced this weekend that NPR will have to cancel their new News program The Bryant Park Project for cost reasons. The NYT story is here. The BPP site with comments on the closing of the show is here. You can see that I was not the only fan nor am I the only [...]
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The Firefox Story from Mitchell Baker- Engagement and Participation
McKinsey published an interview with Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker, titled Succeeding at open-source innovation. Like many people, I use Firefox (I also use Apple’s Safari) so I was especially interested. The noted that Mozilla, “relies extensively on people outside her company—not just for creative ideas, but also to develop products and make decisions. The result: [...]
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The Circles of 2.0 in Business
Susan and I have been talking a lot lately about how much confusion there is around what parts of 2.0 play a role in a business, and where. The mixing and mingling of PR vs Enterprise Social Media, vs collaboration vs enterprise 2.0 tends to get mixed up quickly as people jockey for contracts and [...]
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Demand for on-demand too demanding for enterprises?
The success of on-demand, Software as a Service, or Cloud computing has raised expectations beyond the point where enterprises and vendors can deliver, a new study concludes.
A new study from Saugatuck Technology states that users want SaaS throughout the enterprise, whether their enterprises are ready for it or not. And, by extension, SaaS is spreading [...]
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