Business | Learn to Adapt

Nov 08

Learn to Adapt Links for November 7th through November 8th

by Jeff Kelly

Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time - Umair Haque - Umair Haque presents a three faceted proposal for how businesses must act differently to weather this recession and succeed in the 21st century. Summary: It's time for business to move from mercenary capitalism to sustainable socialism.
How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 - Part 1 [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion provides another robust graphic on Web 2.0 business implications. Good food for thought and discussion.

Oct 27

by Jeff Kelly

What Tim O’Reilly gets wrong about the cloud - Nicholas Carr’s wise response to Tim O’Reilly’s post (see link below) about cloud computing and Web 2.0. A great post that quickly summarizes many of the forces (besides Web 2.0) that businesses can harness to be successful on the Web.
Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - O’Reilly Radar - A great post from Tim O’Reilly that considers the future (and future profitability) of cloud computing. The big take away: just as value moved from hardware to software, the value now will move from software to leveraging the social network capabilities of the cloud as platform. This is what we’ve longed recognized as “Web 2.0″ - networked products that explicitly leverage network effects.

Oct 01

by Jeff Kelly

Getting Web 2.0 right: The hard stuff vs. the harder stuff - Josh Ross shares yet another example of how technology is often the easiest part of the the Enterprise 2.0 Three Legged Stool. It is the other two legs (processes and culture) that require additional attention in order for the implementation to succeed.
GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM - Om Malik rails against bandwidth caps from Internet providers. This trend is the beginning to the shift of bandwidth as commodity. Soon this will be like all utilities and we will pay per use (just like kilowatt hours or gallons of water). The difference should be choice. I can’t choose my water or electricity provider, but I do have choice for my Internet provider. And the competition should help keep per MB pricing low.

Sep 07

by Jeff Kelly

Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries - Sarah Perez provides a nice summary of examples of how "Web 2.0" platforms are impacting business.
A Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 - Thomas Vander Wal in spins a tiny little analogy in Social Computing Magazine to discuss the current state of the those two titan buzzwords "Web 2.0" and "Enterprise 2.0".

Aug 05

by Jeff Kelly

OUseful Info: Education 2.0 Business Models - Though it does not directly address "Education 2.0" business models, this page provides a nice summary of different resources on the monetization aspect of Web 2.0.
Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan - Great post on the importance of "society" in social networking from Serkan Toto at TechCrunch
Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion weighs in on the current state of cloud computing. A great summary article on the topic!
Six Degrees of Wikipedia - An interesting page put together by Stephen Dolan does an analysis relationships between articles in of Wikipedia. Try out the "find shortest path" section - interesting. Google recently announced that there are actually an average of 6.6 degrees of separation between the billions of pages they index on the Web. It is indeed a small world (wide web).