Trade Secrets - Shhhh
What is Trade Secrets?
Trade Secrets is a small group of Enterprise 2.0 startups who are willing to share enough to spur partnerships, standards, co-development and collaboration.
The idea that we can work together to address common challenges should be well within our own mantras of the new enterprise.
Nobody has to share propritary or secretive information, but the more we share, the more we can help eachother.
Are you a startup focused on organizations or enterprises? Ping me now!
Teqlo Preview
Head over to Teqlo.com and try a preview of their new widget mashup tool. It’s a hell of a lot of fun. Like a useful Yahoo Pipes.
Do you have an answer?
“A lot of the conversations I have been having lately, and a lot of the posts I am seeing in the Enterprise 2.0 world, seem to be focusing on the search for some sort of answer. The Killer App, Mass Adoption, Search at the Center, Re-engineering large organizations…
The problem as it seems to me is quite different.”
Read the rest on the FASTForward Blog »
How to Save the World
“You can’t be blamed for being cynical. You’ve heard it all before. Five years after the last comparable drumroll, nothing has really changed, or if it has, the changes have nothing to do with the last Big Change Project.”
Sometimes I spend weeks thinking about something and then it seems like Dave throws out a post on it before he gets dressed.
Pirates of the Multiplex: On The Web: vanityfair.com
“But if Hollywood wants to stop online pirates —who cost the industry some $7 billion in 2005—it needs to join them, not beat them.”
When everyone has their pants down, nobody has pants.
Amanda Marcotte has left the John Edwards campaign staff.
She had, before being an Edwards blogger, been critical of the Catholic Church’s stance on birth control. Essentially, she had a private opinion on the matter and she made the mistake of blogging that.
So, as soon as she began blogging for the Edwards campaign, people started digging on her. In this case, it was a group of Catholic enforcers. I am sure they were as giddy as school boys when they typed “Amanda Marcottee abortion” into google (or, more likely, they printed off every one of her blog posts). When her anti-abortion (or is it… “pro choice”) post came up I am sure a loud BINGO was heard through the cubicles.
They had caught Amanda with her pants down. Butt cheeks in the crosshairs.
Report from CommunityNext
CommunityNext was a last minute decision for me. I was going to be in San Diego for FASTForward, and Will was going to head to Palo Alto anyway to go, so I thought it would be a good idea.
I will start off with the bad: The first few speakers in the morning seemed to be terrible. I am not sure what happened, but they just seemed unprepared and unwilling to put forward much effort. I was really feeling bad for Noah Kagan at this time because I think a few people even left and wrote off the rest of the day.
Having a day on my hands, I stuck around., and I was glad I did.
Things got exponentially better from there. By mid afternoon, with one exception, things were great. The SkinnyCorp guys were awesome, and the Dogster crew also entertained while imparting wisdom.
The day ended with a panel, which was moderated by Guy Kawasaki, and it was hilarious and useful. Drew Curtis and James Hong competed for the title of “funniest guys on a panel” with the others chiming in when possible.
Would I go to CommunityNext again? The answer is yes, but only for one reason: Having had a chance to meet Noah Kagan, the organizer, you can tell he’s not the kind of guy that will let the same mistakes happen again. So yes, I’ll be there next year, expecting great things.
Coolest person I got to meet: Lee Lefever, who, if you don’t watch him closely enough, will steal the food right off your plate!
Canada’s Blogging Conference
There are still 50 spaces available for Canada’s Blogging Conference, If you are in Canada, or would like to visit, and want to get a taste of what all this “2.0″ stuff is about and what it means for Canada, then this is pretty much the only conference you can go to, you have to go to it.
Northern Voice changes every year and is usually ahead of other conferences in terms of thinking and content.
So, rather than waste your 400$ on conferences that tell you what was new 6 month or a year ago, go to Northern Voice and hear about really cool stuff from some of the coolest people in our great cold north.
We here in Toronto really are catching up quickly, but Vancouver really has been the leader of all things Web 2.0 in Canada for a long time, so it makes good sense to me that they have been hostings Canada’s Web 2.0 conference for 3 years now (longer than there has been a “Web 2.0″.)
Eating Our Own Dogfood
“But I started evangelizing Enterprise 2.0 internally, and to my surprise my co-workers got it and became very enthusiastic about the possibilities. When properly presented Enterprise 2.0 can be very compelling to traditional companies.” — Some optimism from inside one of the large consulting organizations.
TechPresident
The most interesting part of the next american presidential campaign will be the role of social tools. TechPresident is already by far the most interesting blog on the subject.
