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Re: The New New Thing

Martin Owen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:53:26 -0000

Education and research community apps that fill these niches have been around for some time:
FirstClass is an excellent example - the functionality exceeds most things that Huddle or similar and has been around since 1990. BSCW (basic support for collaborative work) has also offered this functionality for "free" since about 1996......
Moodle - and OpenSource project - is very popular.

Even Lotus Notes had its fans as a collaborative system.

Re: The New New Thing

jamescoops — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:10:45 -0000

bubblegen/ umair points to Megastudy in Korea as an example of what to expect as 2.0 moves into other areas. Surely only a matter of time before someone does something similar in the West.

Re: The New New Thing

nic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:03:56 -0000

Thanks guys.

James - you are right, 'enterprise2.0' is also interesting, although I'm not sure how quickly the verticals you mention will adopt social software and all that comes with it. I'm definitely on the look out for startups in this space though, and www.huddle.net is one of my favourites here in the UK.

Paul - I also agree with you. In the post I focused on the value to consumers - entertainment, but the technology drivers are networks, devices and the new ability to make services social. All very exciting.

Re: The New New Thing

paulsweeney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:36:31 -0000

Again, I am reminded of Umair's point: solve something socially meaningful and you will reap the just rewards. The second point I'd like to make, is that "the net" hasn't really reached into devices, and between devices. We are in the early stages of the the People As Network, but this will be augmented by the Objects As Network. Sounds hi-filluten, but hey, your phone, your car, your house, your office all linked to social and physical infrastructure could make dramatic differences. The Irish Health service just rolled out a Web2.0 infrastructure (http://www.enn.ie/article/1... The old "top down approach" cost a fortune and failed (http://www.siliconrepublic....

Re: The New New Thing

alan p — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:18:58 -0000

I'd agree with you on the B2C side, Nick - I picked up on the same articles's Enterprise thoughts - mine here:

http://broadstuff.com/archi...

I'd be interested in your take

Re: The New New Thing

jamescoops — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:55:49 -0000

Surely the next big wave(s) will be web 2.0 moving beyond entertainment into new areas like health, government, education, B2B, international trade, manufacturing, development etc?