Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler? by ZDNet's Dion Hinchcliffe -- Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNet's own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it to benign neglect. Euan actually laid out three strategies in semi-tongue cheek form likely meant as a shot across the bow of complacent IT departments; whether you get out of the way, actively encourage it, or do absolutely nothing, Enterprise 2.0 platforms like blogs, wikis, and related social, emergent, freeform Web 2.0-style apps are coming to your company, and in fact are almost certainly there already.

Average Joe is now video program director - Jan 21, 2007

Having scripts to cleverly insert in applications like Myspace has worked wonders for people who wanted to provide video for their viewers. Video is one of the most desirable things to incorporate into ones site and many who see more traffic and increased hits at their sites know they owe it, in large part, to the new video content they have added. What has been seen, in terms of the magnitude of video that prevails on the internet, has been precipitated not only by the ease of getting a video available for the net, but by all the new systems that are around to support those scripts or handle your uploads and give you a packaged site look.. They are everywhere.

I think that right now we are at the forefront of a new level of video support that will be clearly marked by increased ease of use. There has been the emergence of .tv domains, a hard to ignore indicator of how quickly sites are showing up with video offerings. From Brightcove Studio at http://studio.brightcove.com/index.cfm I see a most impressive jump in methods for the retailing of ones videos and for packaging video content and delivering video in the manner that is sure to become the most commonplace. Video on demand is at the threshold of an explosive growth.

Think "Brightcove" and get yourself in on a fast growing world. Be somebody in the world of video. We've all got our chance now. Brightcove has extremely detailed written instructions. It's a system very dedicated to making sure you can't get it wrong. Trying to make sure you have the highest quality experience!

Sprint wants to move quickly with Wi-max

Sprint still likes to be first at filling out networks with the newest and most recent technologies. It reminds me of their earlier efforts with PCS networks built on CDMA. They had plans for incorporating CMI at one time in connection with those technologies, which I thought was pretty interesting. Sprint always seems forward thinking.

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Ratcheting up the Capabilities - Jan 20, 2007

A couple new names have managed to come into focus in the past month that I thought worthy of attention. Inserit at www.inserit.com is a provider of a content management system that leverages the strengths of Dreamweaver, to supplement the ease of use capabilities that exist throughout its system. If your opting for a content management system, Inserit might be the one for you. It's ready to take on your muli-lingual needs and provide a foundation for your international marketing efforts. I think it comes as prepared and capable as any existing web based system available. I tend to expect as much from the most recent of offerings and they do not disappoint.

Another fine offering and a perfect compliment to the Content Management Systems ( Inserit appears to be to new to be included as of yet) is Userplane at www.userplane.com. They seem to have a strong conviction to take care of your communication needs and they're geared to do that in every way that you can imagine and then some. They likely represent improvement on traditional forms of web communication, but the obvious appeal of this mix and match kind of communication product, is the ability to integrate it with many of the new and compelling content sources that are available.

AJAX for n00bs

Take a look on the net and you'll see endless pages of AJAX Frameworks: libraries which promise to do all the trivial and dirty AJAX work for you, leaving you free to code without actually understanding how the application you're writing really works. So lets pull back the smoke and mirrors and see what AJAX is and why it's just a simple evolution

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A Defining Technology Trend for 2007?

There'll be plenty of sleek, gleaming devices on the market this year, and they'll be jampacked with enough functionality to keep the most inveterate gadget freak drooling. And they'll be smaller, cheaper and more powerful. But is there one defining trend that will dictate how technology products will evolve during the year? I believe there is.

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It's in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website

Judging by the upsurge of interest in internationalization over the past year, it is a subject to which increasing numbers of web professionals are paying careful attention. If you are in a position where foreign markets play a role in your online strategy, join new Digital Web author Huiping Iler as she shares her secrets for creating a successful

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A Quantum Leap In Web Technologies - Dec 4, 2006

As of late, I find myself frantically trying to stay aware of, let alone understand all the new web technologies that are starting to unfold these days. Nevertheless, what you might hear me say to any person who was just familiarizing themselves with the internet for the very first time, would be a heartfelt suggestion to relax and NOT fret their novice status.

What the internet and its designers are doing is creating a simplicity for maneuvering about the internet, plain and simple. With each passing day that goes by, the learning curve by which somebody can effectively make use of the internet, surf about and gain useful information and resources to enrich their lives is shrinking.

Think about the power of an increasingly meaningful experience with each passing day and that's pretty exciting stuff in its own right, but equally or even more fascinating to some such as myself, is the potential to understand these new technologies or simply implement them and eventually be able to make a presentation of various forms of media, that looks as impressive as the next guys and allows you to deliver fascinating functionality and resources to your own visitors.

The learning curve to share or employ powerful media has been shortened dramatically. Website development has taken quantum leaps forward. Manipulation is the word that best describes what these new technologies have made possible. Knowing how to program web applications with these different technologies is a worthy undertaking for the true programmer and coding fanatic. Even now I can imagine the satisfaction not to mention the untold rewards they reap because of their skills. With greater and greater frequency these geniuses roll-out sites that allow you and I to enjoy the increasingly easy task of manipulation.

The technologies that are coming to light and that are fresh in my mind are, REST (Representational State Transfer) which is an architecture not a standard and some new implementations of Javascript, those being AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) and JSON (Javascript Object Notation. These seem to be the foundation or core technologies which allow developers to give us new flexibility and powers of manipulation. XML (Extensible Markup Language) and RSS (Rich Site Summary) an XML format and XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) are all well known and moving ahead at breakneck speed to widespread usage and seem to be inexorably connected to the future of the web. XHTML must be considered in connection with such technologies as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and DOM (Document Object Model).

Of all the things mentioned, it appears that AJAX, REST and JSON are the newcomers that will add further simplification to possibilities that XML only recently brought to the table. We've made new leaps and the XML phenmomenon still hasn't even finished its debut and fulfilled all its promise. Having mentioned these particular technologies is not to suggest that I've named all that is new and forthcoming, nor do I understand all the interdependencies or relationships these technologies might share with each other or whether some of them are in direct competition. What does seem apparent is that the simplifying effect is in full swing and that one way or another it will get a lot easier for us to manipulate an impressive web presence of our own, once we make up our minds to do so.

Time to put those search engines to work and to dive into these new terms and technologies. I wouldn't want to leave you without a wonderful link that touches on all of the technologies I mentioned and quite a few others I didn't. I hope it proves quite useful as a quick reference. You could skip the search engines and still get a nice overview of what has been mentioned in this article by visiting...

http://www.informit.com/guides/guide.asp?g=xml&rl=1

Content Content Content - Nov 20. 2006

Content, it's what we website owners want and we seek it for varied reasons, but one of the foremost reasons for content is that it means opportunity. Community built websites can provide lots of content for you. Oh, you didn't realize you could easily host your own community? Well, that's turning into a possibility that new website owners and novice programmers can build into a website fairly easy. With new website and web-hosted capabilities, an individual might put up some of their content under your domain and advertising format. You and that community member or any of your members might easily share a little bit of advertising revenue amongst yourselves.

Realistically, any one who has a website can get it up to you in a RSS feed and you have the option of transforming the incoming feeds into separate and complete web pages, right down to an article by article basis.

RSS means a great opportunity for a website owner to have timely and current content and a sub-domained communities content. Every member can share access to personally suitable content and the automatic update of their selected sources.

Put off by the idea of your own domain community and want to do it all yourself, I mean provide manually selected articles, what you want and when you want? Want to have all that ad generation working for you and you alone? You could go that way if you desire. It doesn't have to be any one way and the variation of methods has simply gotten easier to implement.

You can find free article submission sites or be more risk taking and adventurous and even pay authors for their content. I like finding any kind of visually appealing material that exists in combination with helpful information. I kind of plug along looking for that sort of thing. The most thrilling part of having a presence on the internet(for me) is the opportunity to reach a lot of eyes and maybe enjoy a little bit of an artistic expression as well.

If you want to experiment with article submission, I like this one site for which I will provide a link. It appears to have plenty of articles, on many subjects and it allows you to have each one of them on your site in full page splendor, to add your adsense to as you see fit.

Because I've spoken of a few different things, not the least of which is RSS, I will leave some links to help with the use of that and some of the other ideas I may have mentioned.

http://www.feedforall.com/index.htm

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2155721

http://www.mamboserver.com/

Extreme RSS Content

Web management aid

Topic specific web pages

It's ALIVE and it's LIVE!!! - Nov 20, 2006

I made a bit of a goof the other day when proclaiming that ANYwebcam had stopped operation.
Nothing could be further from the truth. ANYwebcam is very much alive and boasts a community of over 3 million.

On top of that, I re-discovered the personable nature of their top people, having text messaged the owner a few times as a result of my mistake. That's one mistake I'm kind of glad I made.

ANY-WAY, I'll give you the first name of the owner, it's David and you can read more about ANYwebcam at his own blog. I'll have the link for David's blog and the ANYwebcam site following the article.

It's interesting, relative to the timing of my first mention of ANYwebcam, that they just happen to be launching a new widget, to be used on the social networking sites.

It may very well be the first instance of a LIVE broadcast widget. Either way, it should prove very exciting and with that new development, I heartily recommend that you check out these links...

http://www.anywebcam.com

http://anywebcam.wordpress.com