Part 1: Sorting out the OSM Platforms We’ve been a bit baffled. The tech and business world have recently been abuzz with stories on crowdsourcing, open innovation, Enterprise 2.0 and other web 2.0-enabled models that are about to reshape today’s business. Just a few years back — about 2005– the topic of outsourcing and offshoring […]
The Other Side of the Buzz
On February 9, 2010, Google launched Buzz – the newest addition to the rapidly growing family of online social networking tools. Borrowing heavily from Friendfeed, a part of the Facebook platform, Buzz’s feature set includes the usual suspects of real time activity streaming, photo and video sharing, as well as several bonus features, such as geo-location and content recommendations. Currently, […]
Why Enterprise Use of Social Media Needs More IT Involvement
The time has finally come. We can now publicly speak about the findings of the research study on the enterprise use of social media that has been in the works since the beginning of 2009. Cisco, the sponsor of the study, issued a global press release on January 13th and over the last few days the story has been […]
Going Rogue with Google Docs
A few days ago Palo Alto Networks, a leading manufacturer of enterprise firewall solutions, released its latest semiannual end-user application usage report. The report is based on the analysis of the network traffic that passes through Palo Alto Network’s firewalls deployed on the edge of corporate networks. In other words, the study reflects objective application usage […]
