Version 1.0 Blogs

All knowledge is not equally useful all the time. Any particular piece of knowledge gets more valuable as you move closer to its application and diminishes more or less quickly thereafter.... When we speak about Knowledge as a Service℠ (KaaS) we are really talking about moving the point of knowledge acquisition as close as possible to the knowledge inflection point — without going beyond. This is what distinguishes KaaS as a field as opposed to other kinds of knowledge services such as classroom teaching or scientific research.

Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 The tale of these two Webs is best told once we understand the meaning, importance and the differences between the following key words for each of the two versions of the web: * Communities * Content * Communication *Conversations Communities: Humans are social creature and associating with a [...]

Few months back in the month of June, I had wailed against the increasing marketing hype and the resulting over-expectations set on Cloud Computing which IMO is a powerful concept but yet is still at its nascent stage. (read my blog post titled “Cloud Computing – Is this the case study for Marketing gone out [...]

I recently attended an Innovation games ™ class held by Luke Hohmann of Enthiosys , http://www.enthiosys.com , and during and more so after the class, was struck by the power of “conversation”. The class itself was focusing on how to harness the various Innovation Games ™ as Luke has described in his book, http://www.innovationgames.com/about/The+Book , [...]

Gartner report points that we have reached the crescendo (or close to) of the hype cycle around cloud computing. There is a lot that has been written and said about this topic. If you break it down it comes to some fairly common set of words and some jargon. It is possible; people who [...]

Last week, IBM decided to move more jobs overseas. To ease that bitter pill to clients worried about offshore service delivery, particularly in the wake of the Satyam fiasco, IBM also filed for a patent on an outsourcing methodology...

Some examples of how the traditional tools have moved to the Enterprise 2.0 category.  I tried to the links/ roots to the corresponding Web 2.0/ social products in that category. Before Web 2.0/ Social Tools Enterprise 2.0 examples (V1 Partners) Knowledge Management, Content Management Wikis, Blogs, Microblogs Atlassian, InXero, SPINACT Email/ Contact database Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Twitter, LinkedIn Yammer, Taglocity Project Management/ Design tools Yahoo! IM, [...]

(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain…) Last Wednesday, as part of our “Design Discussions” session, my team and I watched the “Paradox of Choice” lecture by Barry Schwartz. We had watched Barry’s talk before but we loved listening to the talk again. While the whole talk is relevant, one area that is particularly relevant to Product Design [...]

(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain…) There is already a lot of buzz around the question if Google is planning to buy Twitter. Some people are already predicting that this is certainly true. My friend Stowe, says in his post, This suggests to me that Google is *very* interested in acquiring Twitter, and I bet discussions are happening [...]

(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain… ) Software products are not just created but also thought out and conceptualized as a collection of features. While this works for extending features on an existing large product, for the conceptualization of a new product, this is possibly the best way to lose your way.  The value of the whole [...]