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To: axial who wrote (17690)	11/8/2006 1:43:13 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

The shorthand used in SMS comes very close to the abbreviations used by Ham Operators who use Morse code, as opposed to those using modulated voice. They economize time, not the cost per character. Here's another article that attempts to put Web 2.0 in its place: -- Web 2 point Uh Oh week Posted by Tom Foremski @ 11:28 pm blogs.zdnet.com The Web 2.0 conference is happening this week in San Francisco. And these days, lots of startups characterize themselves as Web 2.0 companies because their products offer collaborative tools, sharing of virtually anything, and their products use AJAX. Most of the Web 2.0 companies offer online services that are very, very similar to each other. They all enable communities to share or not share their content or applications, and to do it in many different ways, from using 3D Avatars, to sending out their content to mobile phones - it all melds into a blur. It is difficult mustering much interest in Web 2.0 companies unless they have a community of users. And I don't mean "registered users." I've registered for at least 100 sites and never went back. I mean active users. If a Web 2.0 company can show it has a large enough and growing community of active users, then I'll take notice. Just because a Web 2.0 company offers a Swiss-army knife array of collaborative functions, and/or it uses AJAX, means nothing. But if there are groups of users doing interesting things with the platform, then that gets interesting. It is usability of Web 2.0 services that will distinguish companies in this space, and the size of the community being served. Is YouTube a Web 2.0 company? Yes. Is that why it achieved a value of $1.6bn? No. It is the huge community that YouTube managed to coral into one place - that's the $1.6bn of value created. And Google will multiply the value of that media asset several fold because it has the most efficient Web 2.0 monetization engine in the world. Tom Foremski reports on the business and culture of Silicon Valley and beyond. And also blogs at SiliconValleyWatcher.com ------

To: axial who wrote (17690)	11/20/2006 3:43:21 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Wikis invade the enterprise [ I'm keep waiting patiently for smart ass journo to proclaim, *"This ain't your father's Lotus Notes!"* From fierceenterprise.com: ] When we talk about the advent of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, we often picture a Utopian future where web-based applications run our business processes, provide us with productivity tools and wash our clothes. While that future is probably a few years from becoming a reality, there are some web-based apps that are catching on in the enterprise right now. Wikis are seeing especially fast adoption in business and that trend will only continue as vendors like Microsoft begin integrating the technology into their upcoming products like Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007. A number of large enterprises have seen their users quickly take to wikis as a productivity tool. Motorola is one example; The tech vendor has seen internal wiki use explode overnight. "I'm not sure how many more we're going to have--3,200 wikis is a lot. We'll probably top out around 4,000," said Motorola's Corporate Vice President of IT Toby Redshaw. For more on the wiki invasion, see this eWeek article: -- Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise November 20, 2006\| By Stan Gibson If you haven't heard that cry already, chances are you will soon, as the use of wikis in enterprise environments spreads like wildfire. Proliferating virally, wiki usage has grown exponentially in recent months, along with other consumer-centric technologies—including blogs, podcasts and RSS—that have made their way into the workplace thanks in part to the influx of the tech-savvy entry-level employees of so-called Generation Y. A wiki, which means "quick" in Hawaiian, is a Web site that enables users to easily edit and update shared content. Continued at: eweek.com ------