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June 18, 2008  12:21 PM

What is social computing?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Brian Kellner, NewsGator's Vice President of Products, offers his take on "social computing."  [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/GdFs9UJMxm4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

June 17, 2008  11:08 PM

Podcast: Live from Enterprise 2.0, discussing how to use social media



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Last week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, I was pulled into a podcast with Chris Brogan,


June 15, 2008  11:27 AM

What is Twitter? Is this distributed microblogging platform ready for the enterprise?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Given that I've become an avid user of Twitter, I'm frequently asked what, exactly, Twitter is and what in the world it's useful for. Isn't it just it a presence messaging on steroids? What...


June 13, 2008  1:45 PM

What is Unity? Lockheed-Martin’s implementation of a social computing platform wows Enterprise 2.0 conferees.



Posted by: GuyPardon
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One of the unexpected hits of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past week was a presentation by Lockheed-Martin on Unity, its social computing platform. One of the world's largest...


June 13, 2008  12:14 PM

What are the characteristics of enterprise 2.0 technologies?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past week in Boston, Dion Hinchliffe offered a three-hour workshop focused on understanding both the progress of social software in enterprises and then drilling down into the details of implementation and techniques. In Hinchcliffe's "State of Enterprise 2.0"...


June 12, 2008  6:08 PM

What is Social Sites 2.0? Newsgator enhances Sharepoint’s social computing utility for the enterprise.



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Newsgator's Social Sites 2.0 integrates with Sharepoint to create a Facebook-like environment on an enterprise's intranet. The video embedded below features Brian Kellner, NewsGator's Vice President of Products, demonstrating the interface that the software adds to existing Sharepoint...


June 10, 2008  12:16 PM

What is enterprise 2.0? Cloud computing proponents mix with social software vendors in Boston.



Posted by: GuyPardon
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The question of creating an agreed upon definition for enterprise 2.0 continues to come up here on the Boston waterfront, as hundreds of software executives, CIOs, software vendors, media and curious technologists mix and...


March 6, 2008  2:35 PM

Video: Twitter in Plain English



Posted by: GuyPardon
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CommonCraft.com is already well known in the blogosphere and social media world for creating brilliant, lucid short videos that explain tricky concepts. The two-person team that make up CommonCraft (

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January 23, 2008  9:00 PM

It’s Greek to Me (Or so said the community)



Posted by: SarahCortes
languages, learning, Ruby on Rails, social, social networking

It's hard to miss the social media and Web 2.0 trends that have spawned numerous venture-backed start-ups over the past few years.  It's also hard to miss the emergence of the "flat world", where our kids can be tutored (online) on their fourth grade math ... from a teenager in Bangalore,...


September 17, 2007  1:49 PM

Andreesen on the three kinds of platforms, the cloud and the future of the Internet



Posted by: GuyPardon
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One of my favorite discoveries of the past year has definitely been Marc Andreessen's blog. From the moment he first started posting long, chewy, thoughtful discussions of his thoughts on technology,