Features Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not....Why Google Apps Could Lose the Enterprise Market Lately, we've been discussing the concept of tech populism and the how enterprises are moving towards a more people-centric focus when it comes to their IT infrastructure. Although we support this movement of bringing social tools into the workspace, one could argue that there's a right way and a wrong way to do this. For some, it's a matter of… Sarah Perez View comments
E-Learning Encylcopedia of Lifes Debuts The long awaited and ultra-ambitious Encyclopedia of Life finally came online on Tuesday, but no sooner did it spring to life than, like an infant version of one of the species it catalogs, it fell flat on its face. Apparently underestimating the interest that the site would generate, its servers buckled under the load and yesterday, the old… Josh Catone View comments
Trends Page View Metric Dying - But What Will Replace It? We've all seen the signs. Ding dong the page view is dead... well, dying. First Compete announced that they would be using attention-based web metrics, or Attention Metrics for short. Then Facebook announced that they will move to a similar metric. Perhaps most importantly, Nielsen NetRatings announced last July that they would stop using page… Muhammad Saleem View comments
Product Reviews Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0. The ability to set up an Open Source social network is now available to anyone who can put a Mediawiki install on their servers. Look… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Trends Is Web Technology Making Your Life Better? Technology, broadly, is a tool or set of tools aimed at making some aspect of life better, easier, or more efficient. On the web, that could mean scripting languages that make it easier for developers to create applications, or it could mean applications that make it easier for us to accomplish a task. Let's not debate the definition of the… Josh Catone View comments