There is alot of discussion around how Twitter search can be improved including the following recent post on Mashable.  The following then are my thoughts on how Twitter Search could evolve. In some ways the evolution of Twitter is not dissimilar to that of the World Wide Web.  That evolution firstly involved an ever increasing | View post »

Agile software development and project management has become much more mainstream in recent years.  This is reflected in the increasing  number of blogs and books available on the subject.  But for someone approaching the subject fresh it can seem somewhat overwhelming and unclear where to start.  It can also look like you have to go | View post »

The increasing number of social networks and platforms being used is offering different channels for businesses to engage and interact with their customers throughout the customer lifecycle.  There are also geographic considerations to be taken into account, for example Orkut is extremely popular in South America so is the right network to use when reaching | View post »

The amount of content being generated is increasing substantially due to the growth in user generated content (UGC).   This could be anything from text based content such as from blogs, forums, comments, wikis, microblogging (ie Twitter) through to media files such as images, video and audio.  This type of content is being generated by both | View post »

There are couple of different areas that people are typically looking for when they investigate cloud computing for their business, namely: Flexible infrastructure that will scale dynamically as needed with pricing that scales accordingly.   They can then deploy existing or new applications/services onto this infrastructure. Applications/services available on the cloud that they can start using | View post »

Eventually you realise that email just doesn’t cut it when it comes to collaborating, especially when working with a team of people even for a short period of time on only a small number of documents.  What you really need is a team collaboration space. A team collaboration tool should offer some or all of | View post »

Open source is becoming much more mainstream now than a few years ago.  It has moved beyond it’s pure dev tools and infrastructure heritage of Linux, GNU and Apache.  It now has offerings in many of the traditional enterprise application spaces and productivity tools.  These include CRM, ERP, eCommerce, BPM, ECM, ESB and BI. The | View post »

To understand more about the Assembled Web, it is good to recognize that you are living and working inside the “cloud” right now! The term “Web” means so much more than it did a year ago as companies embrace all aspects of it across their business, leveraging its power and reach. The Assembled Web is | View post »

Consciously or unconsciously businesses and people in general are using more and more applications within the cloud. Everything from corporate intranets, CRM and company email through to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are all delivered through the cloud to a browser. The challenge for businesses is how best to leverage the solutions available within the cloud, | View post »