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Cisco targets collaboration, developing markets Cisco Systems is on target to meet its growth forecast for this quarter and sees big opportunities over the next several years in collaboration technologies and developing economies, executives told financial analysts on Wednesday. Wikia CEO on lunacy, air miles, and being profitless Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia, showed up for a recent interview in a brown T-shirt that said "Wikia" in yellow letters on the front, and "Lunatic" on the back. August 17, 5:43 a.m. PDT Wikipedia Scanner exposes self-edits in online encyclopedia A word of caution about editing entries "anonymously" in Wikipedia: a tool has been developed that can show who made the changes. August 16, 7:12 a.m. PDT Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax Websense has developed a threat detection system designed to spot Web 2.0 attacks soon after they are launched. August 6, 4:19 a.m. PDT Clearspace X fosters customer relationships through online communities Successful organizations typically share one important trait: they listen to customers. In the Web 2.0 era, perhaps the best way to embrace -- and extend -- this concept is through online communities. Jive Software has taken its Clearspace collaboration product (which glues together blogs, wiki, document management, and discussion forums) and endowed it with new features specifically for building these public-facing communities.  May 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT As Web 2.0 evolves, security becomes an issue Samy Kamkar was really just trying to impress girls. Instead he made Web hacking history. April 25, 9:36 a.m. PDT MySpace, Photobucket reach truce An impasse between the world's largest social network and the U.S.'s most popular photo site has ended. April 24, 8:58 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 tools inspire data-sharing software Businesses that use ECM (enterprise content management) software to manage data could soon be giving employees more control over that data, as application providers are inspired by Web 2.0 tools like wikis, mashups and data tags. April 18, 9:43 a.m. PDT JotSpot chief: Google is a nerd paradise JotSpot agreed to be acquired by Google partly because the search engine giant is "a nerd's paradise," JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus said Monday. April 17, 7:01 a.m. PDT Silicon Valley VCs predict tech winners, losers In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future. March 29, 4:12 a.m. PST JotSpot users give Google mixed reviews Almost four months after Google acquired JotSpot, business users and commercial developers of this hosted wiki service give mixed accounts of life as Google customers. February 26, 7:46 a.m. PST Second Life and the future of the operating system Linden Lab’s Second Life isn’t the first virtual community to spring up on the Internet — text-based MUDs (multi-user domains) date back to the mid-1970s. Nor is it the largest virtual environment. That honor likely belongs to World of Warcraft, the massive online world with more than 8 million members. But months of generally positive press attention, and growing encampments of “first life” companies such as IBM and Starwood Hotels as well as news outlets Reuters and CNET, may make Second Life the most widely known virtual world, and the first to cross over from the consumer to the enterprise space. January 29, 3:41 a.m. PST Google has big plans for Groups service Online discussion forums date from the Internet's early days and are seen by many as passe in this Web 2.0 era of blogs, wikis, and social networks, but Google has no plan to put its Groups service out to pasture. January 25, 5:04 a.m. PST Oracle's 'Web 2.0' interface coming this month Oracle plans to release WebCenter Suite before the end of the month, a product for building application interfaces that incorporate content from a variety of sources as well as "Web 2.0" tools such as blogs and wikis. January 24, 8:55 a.m. PST Wikis evolve as collaboration tools Content management systems usually won’t work as collaboration tools. Although a CMS does ease content creation, the resulting Web sites have rigid navigation and formal publishing workflows. Wikis, on the other hand, empower users to create new pages ad hoc as well as create links easily within the content. January 5, 3:00 a.m. PST US intelligence community's wiki aids info sharing Members of the U.S. government's intelligence community are using a Wikipedia-like community networking Web site to share information across agency boundaries and open dialogue about disagreements over assessments such as those that led to the war in Iraq, project leaders said. October 31, 2:04 p.m. PST Web 2.0 reaches the classroom University of Arizona students are learning how to build online business communities using technologies often grouped under the controversial and problematic Web 2.0 concept. October 25, 7:03 a.m. PDT YouTube acquisition, McAfee scandal point to tech trends Google Inc.'s acquisition of YouTube Inc. and a shakeup at security vendor McAfee Inc. are giving IT investors something to mull over as they brace for the wave of technology-vendor financial reports due next week. October 12, 2:27 p.m. PDT Used properly, RSS boosts collaboration Blogs, blogs, bloggity blog blog. In the midst of your daily IT grind, the constant blog babble may sound tedious. But while they are the latest way for employees to waste time using IT resources, blogging technology also has real potential to help you earn your next bonus. Yeah, I'm talking about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Just don't look at it as a silver bullet. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Xerox refreshes product line, expands services Xerox wooed Wall Street and users last week in New York with a three-day rollout of new printers, software and strategic initiatives that underscored how services will be the engine of growth for the company. September 11, 4:19 a.m. PDT 'Wikimaniacs' debate corporate acceptance of wikis It's a wiki, wiki world, whether you know it yet, or not. Such was the vibe at Wikimania 2006, the second-annual conference on all things Wikipedia -- the online, free (and sometimes controversial) encyclopedia. The event drew an estimated 400-plus attendee from 50 countries s to the Harvard Law School, where the conference ran from Friday to Sunday. August 9, 5:48 a.m. PDT Wikipedia to focus on quality issues Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia needs to improve the quality of its content in the coming year, Jimmy Wales, the founder of the project, said Friday. August 4, 9:19 a.m. PDT JotSpot makes wikis less nerdy Startup JotSpot hopes to move wikis away from their nerdy text-based roots by unveiling Monday a revamp of its hosted application platform that features a variety of page types and simpler ways for nontechnical users to customize their wikis. July 24, 9:05 a.m. PDT EBay adds blogs, wiki to site EBay is beefing up community-building capabilities on its online auction site to include support for blogs, a new wiki for members to share information, and new types of alerts for users to stay on top of sales, the company announced on Wednesday. June 14, 7:46 a.m. PDT Web-based alternatives to PowerPoint When Edward Tufte famously declared that PowerPoint is evil, I violently agreed. “If your words or images are not on point,” he wrote, “making them dance in color won’t make them relevant.” May 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tap SharePoint and get wiki wid it We won our second Maggie award! For the second year running, "Enterprise Windows" won the Western Publications Association's industry award in the category of Best Regularly Featured Web Column/Trade. And if you think I enjoyed the red carpet, the dinner banquet at the Westin Hotel, and the million-dollar prize package … well, you’re wrong (but I would have enjoyed them had I had them). But I did revel in the knowledge that our editor, Ted Samson, got a hearty handshake and that the shiny lucite award will be gracing the magazine office display case. Wisely frugal on InfoWorld’s part. [Ed. note: For the record, I didn't get to go collect the award or the handshake, either.] April 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Socialtext unveils wiki platform for mobile devices Socialtext is due on Wednesday to take the wraps off Miki, a wiki platform optimized for mobile devices, the company said. April 5, 4:37 a.m. PDT > Applications > Internet applications |
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