Since the Web 2.0 patterns have suddenly popped up, things have changed fast indeed – and these patterns have now stepped out of the ‘private-connected concern’ of one’s individual to spill out within companies and organisations – and whose side effects are already tangible. Twitter is a great example of a 2.0 killer application, born within the media convergence framework, first used in the 'private' (opposed to 'professional') sphere, and about to enter the business world with bells and whistles ringing out loud. We at Early Stage are convinced that the whole business world is about to face a series of new ...

We can not deny that more and more people are talking about a recession. The economy is coming to a halt and some serious cutbacks are being planned by organisations around the world. This article (searchCRM.com) makes a link between web 2.0 and CRM and the possible influence of a recession.

What do we retain :

• Web 2.0 features/applications are new and have not yet proven their worth so therefore they are candidates for the waist bucket when budget cuts ...
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Our attention was drawn to the rather ambitious report that was published already a while ago from ABI Research on location-based social networking. They claim that and we quote "Location-based mobile social networking revenues will reach $3.3 billion by 2013, but successful business models may differ from what many observers expect". We don't want to go into details on the fact that this seems a positive or negative estimate but two items are bothering us here :

1. ABI research expects less revenue from location-based ...

Well, we were just wondering on how true this acronym could be (NT + OO = EOO stands for New Technology + Old Organization = Expensive Old Organization). We do not really know where it comes from but according to some sources on the Web it originates from PriceWaterHouseCoopers (http://www.smallbizcrm.com/crm-quotes.html), and it made us laugh out loud. Anyhow, especially looking at the whole Enterprise 2.0 philosophy, we couldn't agree more. The danger of adapting new technologies without fully understanding the true meaning of them, the reason why you are doing it and the awareness of the ...