30 articles in this selection

2010/06/30

Here’s an example of “augmented corporate reality” based on the Layar platform and the SAP BusinessObjects ondemand.com platform, running on a Google Nexus One Android phone.

2009/10/05

A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page....

2009/07/23

Social Bookmark & Feed Button Builder, lets you analyze which kind of social bookmarking services your users are using.

2009/07/14

Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best....

2009/07/12

SAP recently announced a new set of Social Media Participation Guidelines and an internal forum to help employees make the most of new social media channels such as Blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. In the spirit of Web 2.0, and like other organizations such as Intel and IBM, we would like to share our guidelines with the community....

2009/07/08

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software. The social software market continues to be fueled by increasing interest from buyers looking for social interaction support as well as from vendors looking to establish a foothold in a growing market.

2009/07/05

Search engines help you find links and documents - they require you to follow these links and open the respective document in order to access information. eyePlorer.com, powered by vionto, provides immediate access to facts. It visualizes facts as well as relationships between facts. Furthermore, eyePlorer.com allows you to collect, process and publish interesting bits of information. eyePlorer.com is a graphical knowledge engine....

2009/06/30

Collective Intelligence in Action is a hands-on guidebook for implementing collective-intelligence concepts using Java. It is the first Java-based book to emphasize the underlying algorithms and technical implementation of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. It provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches....

2009/06/29

Wikipatterns.com is a toolbox of patterns & anti-patterns, and a guide to the stages of wiki adoption. It's also a wiki, which means you can help build the information based on your experiences! Beyond this site, there are many other additional resources....

2008/10/07

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely deployed as a means of constructing an agile IT environment. It supports several higher-level initiatives such as Business Process Management and a number of upcoming forms of Web 2.0 collaboration. In order to fully exploit the potential of SOA and avoid it falling into disrepair over years of iterative deployments, governance of the environment needs to be implemented early with the understanding and endorsement of business stakeholders as well as IT executives....

2008/09/23

With the emergence and maturing of a vast array of corporate-strength intranets, extranets, portals, and Web 2.0 with its multitude of supporting real-time and asynchronous communications tools, there would appear to be a huge potential for technology to bring real gains to team productivity. However, in practical terms, hardly any of the supposed benefits are generally realized by teams utilizing these technologies. So, what's missing in today's organizational teams?...

2008/09/17

Gartner's annual Customer Relationship Management Summit stirred up a lot of speculation over the way the industry is evolving. The focus on Web 2.0 was intense and expected, but attendees also found plenty of grist for debate over CRM's fundamental principles....

2008/04/29

Everyone’s an expert on something! Share your knowledge and passion with the world.

2008/04/29

Over 17 million people a month view documents on Scribd

2008/04/24

Web 2.0 API Directory

2008/03/20

Software being developed at Intel makes it easy for people with no programming experience to combine data from different Web pages.

2008/03/06

The good news: there is, I call it BPM 2.0—a term originally coined by my good friend Bruce Silver, and it’s available now. The bad news: the definition I give for BPM 2.0 is a radical one, it leaves no place to hide, and most vendors won’t like it....

2008/03/06

With heavy, rigid, and too technical methods for weaving together systems and processes seemingly on their way out, it’s sometimes easy to forget there are many inherent compexities in connecting systems to each other. But one of the promising concepts...

2008/03/06

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it’s certainly true it’s early days yet for mashups, the tools that...

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Let’s take a look at the some of the communication issues facing a Web 2.0 site, and see how the “Web 2.0 look” can help to solve them.

2008/02/08

QlikTech, named by IDC as the world's fastest growing Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced the availability of "Dugg Analyzer," a free tool that analyzes traffic and postings on the popular Digg Web site, providing new transparency in determ...

2008/01/23

Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We're thrilled to be sharing patterns and code with the web design and development community, hope it's useful, and look forward to your feedback.

2008/01/22

Generate a matching color scheme from a single color

2008/01/19

If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?

2008/01/07

What I did is write a program that is able to log in to a very popular German Social Networking website and grab some data from it. I grabbed the friends of my profile (only 2) their friends (about 100) and the friends of their friends (about 5000). I use...

2008/01/05

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely expla...

2008/01/05

Swivel's mission is to make data useful.