Crimson Consulting Group Partner Chosen As Panelist at Web 2.0 NY Summit
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Crimson Consulting Group, a marketing consulting firm that provides  marketing strategy and execution consulting services to high technology  companies, has announced that Partner Dylan Charles has been selected as  a panelist at the June 14, 2007 Web 2.0 NY Summit conference.
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Daniel Crook points out the next meeting of the New York PHP Group where Dan Gisolfi will be talking about some of the latest things that IBM has been up to in the mashup arena.   Centered around the concept of "situational applications," IBM's work with mashups targets a growing trend in Web site development. [...] IT specialists should embrace the model as a foothold for PHP in the enterprise.   Some of Dan's presentation is outlined as well - a demo of IBM's Mashup Starter Kit, a look at best practices, and talk on the collaboration of IBM with Zend and ProgrammableWeb. If you're wanting to attend, be sure you RSVP as soon as possible (before the 21st @ 3pm) to reserve your spot.
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Both Chris Shiflett and Eli White has posted reminders/comments about the upcoming DC PHP Conference happening November 7th through the 9th in Washington, D.C..   Eli mentions the talk he will be giving ("my stock 'High Performance' talk") and Chris points out the two talks being given by other OmniTIers - Paul Jones on framework and application benchmarking and Nate with a look at CakePHP   Registration for the conference is still open so you can still get in on this great three day event with sessions on topics like API design, MySQL security, lots of Facebook talk and where PHP fits in with today's politics.
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Cal Evans has posted his notes from the (just passed) Web Builder 2.0 Conference that happened over in Las Vegas. PHP had its presence there through Cal's "PHP Powers Mashups" talk and others like Chris Shiflett.   There was plenty to see and do at the conference besides PHP and Cal highlights just a few:  AJAX Optimization talks  An overview of some Flickr Stats Google's mashup offerings An introduction to  and some talk of benchmarking Ajax  Check out the full post though - it's jam-packed with links and some great event information.
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At this week's Web 2.0 Conference, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen talks about why Photoshop won't be a hosted application, what he thinks of Microsoft's Silverlight, and Google's Gears.
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Answers.com Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Cutler will present this week on  a panel entitled "The New Frontier in Search"  at the Red  Herring East Conference in Boston, MA.
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The Web glitterati came out for the Web 2.0 conference at San Francisco&#39;s swanky Nikko hotel this week. In attendance were Amazon&#39;s Jeff Bezos, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, Bill
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The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference on Wednesday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: Getting the players behind
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Two business school academics who have disagreed over the viability of social networking in enterprises touched gloves once again Friday during a Webcast debate.Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, is often associated with the phrase &quot;enterprise 2.0,&quot; and is bullish on the impact of wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0-era software within a business context.In contrast, Tom Davenport, the president&#39;s chair in information technology and management at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., has been skeptical of Web 2.0 software&#39;s value on its own, and argues the functionality may not be all that new.&quot;A lot of things in wikis could have been done in Lotus Notes,&quot; Davenport said during Friday&#39;s debate. &quot;Should we get hyped up about a new generation of technology when the old technology could do a lot of the same things?&quot;Davenport also quibbled with the very phrase &quot;enterprise 2.0,&quot; calling it far too dramatic.&quot;There are some applications for which enterprise 2.0 technologies ... are well suited, but overall the organizational environments in which they&#39;re rooted haven&#39;t changed very much,&quot; he said. &quot;Maybe a better name would have been knowledge management 1.5 or groupware 2.0. It&#39;s certainly not the second iteration ever of enterprises, so we ought to make it a higher number or change the first word.&quot;McAfee said it was never his intention to equate social software with sweeping changes in the way companies are organized. &quot;I think that hierarchy and structure are not going to go away, and should not go away,&quot; he said. &quot;This is not the magic bullet that&#39;s going to sweep away bureaucracy in organizations.&quot;&quot;I would never say it was impossible to collaborate before 2004. That would be ridiculous,&quot; he added at one point. &quot;My only point is that the toolset for doing so is much better.&quot;The debate&#39;s focus eventually turned to cultural barriers facing Web 2.0 adoption in enterprises, such as the ingrained reluctance company leaders may have over ceding some control over the flow and movement of business information.&quot;That is a very common mindset for execs,&quot; McAfee said. &quot;If you are willing and able to give up control, what you end up getting out is very rarely negative and very often positive.&quot;Fears about security aren&#39;t unwarranted, but hardly new, either, McAfee suggested: &quot;A Xerox machine is a proven way of stealing secrets.&quot;McAfee said a senior human resources manager at one company told him that, due to concerns about whether younger workers were talking about the business through their social-networking accounts, the firm did a sweep through its user profiles. The worst thing the company found was a photograph of a training session in which some dummy account numbers could be seen on a board, he said.But Davenport had a ready retort, saying such anecdotes are merely &quot;further evidence these tools are not a big breakthrough. The fact you&#39;re not finding a whole lot of changes in negative behavior? It&#39;s the other side of the coin, you&#39;re not finding a whole lot of changes in positive behavior.&quot;Davenport also criticized the notion that an internal blogosphere can be good for all types of companies. Installing one assumes that a firm&#39;s senior officials are actually interested in hearing from the rank-and-file, he argued.&quot;I think that&#39;s why walk-around management was invented. ... you&#39;re going to pay much more attention to the people you talk to than the words you get from someone&#39;s blog, sitting at your desk browsing around one night,&quot; Davenport added.&quot;I&#39;m never going to argue that enterprise 2.0 makes face-to-face discussion irrelevant,&quot; McAfee replied. &quot;What it makes you able to do is keep tabs on a lot more of what is happening in an organization.&quot;Friday&#39;s debate was sponsored by&#160;Fast Search &amp; Transfer, the enterprise search company. Davenport and McAfee initially debated the topic last year.
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The explosive growth of Web 2.0 and user-generated content is changing the way we use the Internet and interact with one another. So congratulations, Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006 is you.
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Blog: CEO 2.0: If you're going to tout the benefits of Web 2.0, might as go all the way, figures Socialtext CEO.
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At Search Engine Strategies in New York last month, a panel of experts weighed in on the best practices of optimizing blogs and feeds for search engines.
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Business leaders in the Web advertising and network-building industries convened today at Fordham University to discuss how they can remake the Web advertising model so that it helps forge communities the way Web sites already do.
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By David Hayes, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 4--In the Internet world, it's called Web 2.0.   While there are a lot of descriptions of what Web 2.0 actually is, at its core it's about collaboration.   The Web becomes the platform, we all become collaborators.
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Real web development tools unearthed among hype Carson Systems' Future of Web Applications (FOWA) conference returned to London this week with an impressive lineup of speakers â and a very Web 2.0 look at the world.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Web 2.0 has come to search engine optimization. Or rather, search engine optimizers have discovered Web 2.0. That's according to experts who spoke on Monday at the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle. "We all go to Google and Yahoo and MSN and Ask.com and make them work for us, that's our job," said Rand Fishkin, CEO and co-founder of SEOmoz, an SEO (search engine optimization) consulting company. "Our job is now extended into this new realm." Fishkin and others said that they're carefully using social networking sites to improve traffic to their customers' sites and build their brands. By attracting more traffic and links, sites can improve their search rankings. Some of the social networking sites Fishkin likes to use are YouTube, Wikipedia, Yelp, MySpace, Flickr, and Technorati. Other sites, such as Digg, Del.icio.us, TechCrunch, and Reddit, can also be used to boost brands and awareness through viral marketing, he said. "Social media marketing is about going out to Web 2.0-style sites and approaching them with the mentality of 'I'm going to contribute to this community,'" Fishkin said. That's an important distinction because marketers that use Web 2.0 sites in ways that counter the community's accepted use can run into trouble. "If you break these rules, users get nasty," said Neil Patel, author of the Pronet Advertising blog andÂ CTO at ACS, a search engine optimization company. "They'll keep pestering you and really ruin your life." For instance, a company that submits lots of its own content, creates multiple accounts in order to vote repeatedly, adds biased content, and asks friends for votes will run afoul of most communities, he said. But Patel also had advice for how marketers make the sites work for them. For instance, he recommends working hard to grow your "friends" list. If a marketer submits content and a lot of people vote on it, that marketer should add those people to their friends list. "Or, if you vote on stories and others vote on the same, they probably have similar interests" and could also be added as friends, he said. Also, becoming a top user on one site can translate onto others. Patel is well known on Digg, and when he goes onto Netscape, people there recognize him and then "show me love," he said. MySpace can also be a good outlet to build a brand and improve a company's online presence, said Cindy Krum, senior SEO analyst at Blue Moon Works. Companies can have MySpace profiles for different brands or products or even for specific people at the company who may be well known. Videos, coupons for free stuff, games, and podcasts are all good content for attracting people to MySpace pages, she said. "It's especially powerful because [social networking sites] allow users to publicly affiliate themselves with a brand in a way that is highly visible to their peer set," she said. While some companies may think that their target customer doesn't fit with the demographic of people using many of these social networking sites, the experts say participating in the sites is still worth it. "It's a jump-off point," said Todd Malicoat, an Internet marketing consultant at Stuntdubl, an SEO consulting company. "It may not be my audience at Digg, but if they like what I have to say, it will get to Techmeme, and then I'll get in front of the demographic I really want to go after." They all agreed that social networking sites can really improve a company's online reputation, but only if used carefully. Patel's ultimate words of wisdom: "Do what is ethical, don't jeopardize your brand, think long term."
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CompaniesÂ Web services orchestration platforms share linkage through Collaxa