via Fred Wilson - a stunning slide from Morgan Stanley's recent Internet Trends report: The primary topic of the report is the growth and future prospects of the mobile internet - reason enough read through all 87 slides. However, I am slightly amazed by the fact that eMail runs second to the relatively new phenomenon of Social Networking, driven primarily by consumer behavior and Generation Y. Admit it - more than once, YouTube and Twitter have made the water-cooler talk…
After my last post ... more experiences at work, and observations in the trades and other blogs, regarding Web 2.0 tools for use in business ... Improving Knowledge Capture is Half the Battle In last week's Information Week magazine, the story of Procter & Gamble's push towards collaboration - the tools can meet some resistance. A critical quote: We consistently hear that information posted to the intranet is incremental work. Similarly, in my organization, I have folks continuing to send…
A fun week or so, watching the impact of various abstracts / memes as they manifest themselves in many interesting ways ... Collaboration: A few evenings ago, I finished up an email regarding some projects at work; Mark1 has been investigating what I called "on-line collaboration", where shared documents, drawings, etc. could be discussed and modified via a shared desktop. I was telling him about "off-line collaboration", like blogs and wikis, and capturing the collective knowledge of a group. I…