We sat down with Francisco Arroyo and Ajay Asthana from IBM to discuss BPM and how it is impacted by the advent of service oriented architecture. They also discuss Websphere and how IBM is utilizing it as a solution suite.
Here were some of the lighter moments from the last webcast with IBM.
In the May video podcast we talk with web gurus Harry Hopkins and Jeremy Gallas about the Web 2.0 trends and potential for impacting business firms current websites.
If you missed the last video podcast on Web 2.0 we did at Humperdinks - check out some of the outtakes from the shoot. Good Times!
In this podcast we discuss the future of mobile phone programming and the impact of .mobi domains with Cassidy Lackey, VP Web and Wireless Infrastructure - Web and PDA pioneer.
Karen Henrie asks a couple of great questions for large companies, in her article Web 2.0: Creating a Successful Enterprise Strategy:
Ask your head of e-commerce:
How can we leverage the capabilities found on Web sites such as YouTube, MySpace or Wikipedia?
Ask your IT architect:
How well positioned are we to leverage available Web 2.0 capabilities?
These are great questions, currently there are very few large companies that understand how Web 2.0 technologies will impact their Enterprise IT strategies. One company has embraced Web 2.0 design look and feel to compete in the market is Blockbuster. If you have not see their site lately you should spend some time reviewing it.
With Netflix gaining such ground in the DVD renting market, Blockbuster responded by simplifying the design of their site and relaunching with a service similar to Netflix but adding the feature you can trade in DVD’s at the store as well as mailing them back.
Blockbuster was driven by market factors to respond to the competition to utilize the Web 2.0 style of website to make the design simple and clean. The question to ecommerce managers is what are you doing to utilize these technologies to drive innovation in your industry and not have to respond to your competitors.
Yesterday the CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff announced the company’s new strategy.
The interesting portion was the platform that will be supported which includes the Saleforce.com “Circle of Success.”
The Circle of Success is the idea of the Salesforce selling applications that are built by developers using the Apex platform of Salesforce.com. In addition ideas and feedback will be piped in from customers.
Its a revolution concept that could have small groups of developers profit from their development without having to worry about the Sales side of the equation. It will be interesting to see how developers can capitalize on the success of this platform and company to build new mash ups and graphical enhanced applications with Adobe’s flex studio.
At the future of Web Apps conference in London, NetVibes founder Tariq Krim announced that their upcoming “Coriander” release will support a product called the Universal Widget API.
Now users can write widgets in Netvibes and then use them on all platforms such as Google and Dashboard. This will make widgets much easier to use and should increase the use of widgets. Currently while many widgets exist today, such as clocks and calendars they have limited usage due to platform considerations.
Kevin Rose gave an interesting talk at FOWA about communities and how the Digg team is constantly having to keep their site algorithms updated to avoid gaming and spamming attempts by users.
He discussed the fact that as the site has grown in number of users, which now tops 900,000+, that the robust discussion is lacking and a few users tend to break out in fights back and forth in the comment sections.
He said they are looking at way to reduce the size of the groups by customizing digg even more so that people that have common interests like Audi, and tea, would see the same stories.
This would be done by leveraging the “attention data”, which is basically the stories you digg and how often on the site to group users more closely together.
Kevin also discussed today that digg will support the use of OpenId in the near future. See the tech crunch DIGG Adopts OpenID about it.
This morning the FOWA conference kicked off with Mike Arrington of Tech Crunch who discussed new opportunities for web applications will be opened up with the utilization of Adobe’s new Apollo platform. This platform will allow web apps to be interactive regardless if the user is online or not.
This new platform from Adobe makes it easy for someone to create applications, as Mike showed off an MP3 player he created, and then reminded the audience he is lawyer by trade and not a developer.
While ease of use is a great feature, the really output of this product is yet to come. Mike expects all new types of applications to be created using it, since it solves one of the greatest issues for a web application today. That issue is when a user goes offline they cannot use the application.
