‘Business Model’ posts

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint

Posted by John Eckman on 13 Apr 2009

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren’t usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we’ve termed the Assembled Web. As consumers have become increasingly sophisticated in their consumption (and control) of | View post »

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Next Generation Mobile Applications

Posted by Optaros on 10 Feb 2009

Mobile Applications are no longer stand alone experiments. As part of our Assembled Web Vision, we help our clients leverage the mobile channel as an integral part of the customer experience that spans web, mobile and offline. As consumer behavior that flows across these modes must be taken as a design assumption now, me2me – | View post »

Drupal, Acquia, and 2009

Posted by John Eckman on 01 Jan 2009

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent “Predictions for 2009” blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia’s support | View post »

Reviewing the Groundswell

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jul 2008

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It’s in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by | View post »

Why Communities Fail

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jul 2008

Ben Worthen had an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal about the kinds of online communities companies are starting to build – “Why Most Online Communities Fail.” He provided some potentially disturbing statistics from a recent study: Thirty-five percent of the online communities studied have less than 100 members; less than 25% | View post »

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | View post »

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Jeff talks about the unique position of Acquia in relation to Drupal as an “organic open source” project: | View post »

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a | View post »

Mobile Web 2.0 – Open Marketplaces are the foundation for the future of Telecom Operators

Posted by Optaros on 16 Apr 2008

A next step in opening the telecom operator’s world is to allow partners to leverage the existing telecoms infrastructure. Enabling third parties to leverage native telco assets and resources for new services or for pure reselling will help drastically increasing volume (long tail) and thus impact profitability. BT has done a great job with their | View post »

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