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Government Transparency is almost as big a buzzword as Web 2.0 lately. And for that matter, you would think the two would go hand-and-hand. With all of the killer technology available in our information age, one would think that it should be relatively straight forward to get a picture of what our government does in return for our tax dollars [...]
Continue Reading →The blogoshere and news headlines are a blaze lately with articles on “Politics 2.0” and candidates harnessing the Internet and social networks to gain wider exposure and raise money. But what if you’re not a candidate or PAC and you want to influence a campaign? Or make your voice heard to other voters about an [...]
Continue Reading →Ok, while most everyone else is busy puking on Cisco’s parade for their two recent acquisitions of Social Networking Companies, and wasting otherwise productive time by ranting about why this is such a bad idea. Let’s take a look at what’s really going on here. Unlike the News Corp-MySpace acquisition, Cisco clearly isn’t after these companies for their [...]
Continue Reading →Ok pardon the bad pun in the title, but I couldn’t resist… As I mentioned in my first post about politics 2.0, this is not a political blog, however I have taken a certain fascination with how the Internet and the “web 2.0 phenomenon” is going to shape the 2008 elections. As such, I will be discussing [...]
Continue Reading →“Open Source” and “Software as a Service” (SaaS) are big buzzwords these days. And rightfully so. Both are viable approaches to mitigating the often high cost of software and infrastructure. However, to date these two approaches have largely existed separately. There are a few exceptions to this, such as SugarCRM who offers their software with both the ability to download the open source version or pay [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday’s post about MyWorkLight and unlocking enterprise content via RSS generated a great deal of interest. A couple of the emails I received made me take a step back and look at the Latigent product offering with a fresh set of goggles. As I’ve mentioned before, BlueVue has an integrated RSS Reader in it, not a very good [...]
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