Comments on: Enterprise 2.0: The Friendster Years?

By: Friend Adder Combo

Friend Adder Combo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:24:09 +0000

facebook can be heard anywhere and from anyone. but just like friendster, when something better than facebook comes out, it would not be so dominant like its status as of today. all things on this world don't always stay on top. every passing day, better things happen.

By: Friend Adder Combo

Friend Adder Combo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:24:09 +0000

By: Singapore Property

Singapore Property — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:37:09 +0000

I think the Gartner hype cycle is a good framework to understand the impact of E2.0.

New technologies often go through the following phases:- Technology trigger, Peak of inflated expectations, Trough of Disillusionment, Slope of Enlightenment, and finally Plateau of Productivity.

Since companies are typically slower to react, I think E2.0 will lag behind Web2.0 in this cycle. Therefore, by monitoring where Web2.0 is at this point, and where its headed to, we could make intelligent guesses of where E2.0 is and when it will be headed to in the next couple of years.

According to Gartner, Web 2.0 is at the peak of inflated expectations 2 years ago. Therefore, I think E2.0 is somewhere there today. At some point, it will probably go down the trough of disillusionment. But I’m pretty sure that it will hit Plateau of Productivity eventually. If Web 2.0 can reach there, E2.0 can as well.

By: Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:41:41 +0000

Their disastrous confidence prevented them from seeing what their users demanded and ultimately instilled a false sense of security that no one could steal their momentum and lure away their millions of users. History shows how wrong they were.

By: Office Supplies

Office Supplies — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:07:48 +0000

I wonder what’s life going to be like after Facebook? What will be simpler, more interactive, more ubiquitous, that it will actually replace facebook’s current prominence as the de facto social networking platform?

By: UK Web Hosting

UK Web Hosting — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:30:02 +0000

I think that the face of the internet will develop in a similar way to how offline technology has, progress is inevitable, there will be plenty of failures that will pave the way for the eventual successes. I don’t see any reason to doubt this, whilst there is a more agile environment online I believe this will just lead to a more rapidly maturing climate which is a great thing!

Competition brings many advantages, in most circumstances it will result in the users of these Enterprise systems reaping the benefits, the eventual conclusion being simple to use, powerful and aesthetically pleasing.

By: Business networking

Business networking — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:04:36 +0000

On the Facebook analogy, I don’t believe Facebook got it right either. They got it better than Friendsters. It’s too early to tell if they got it right. They may be like AOL and be dominant today and gone tomorrow when something better comes out. I believe most likely they will get crushed in 5 years time when the next thing comes out and spam overtakes Facebook. It’s hard for them to hold on when most of their users are at an early stage in their life when things change daily.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:00:13 +0000

I believe that’s a great philosophy! You see that sense of eventuality (also combined with survival of the “fittest”) in the opensource movements. I also believe there’s further proof of it in the “del facto standards” that often exist (or perhaps persist).

I would say “unfortunately” the enterprise adoption has been slower, but personally I don’t want my bank rapidly assuming something like OpenID until there’s a lot more vetting…

So the eventuality of it is a good thing, even if sometimes it’s still frustrating.

By: Ephraim Freed

Ephraim Freed — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:35:16 +0000

Businesses are traditionally focused on creating the structure needed to serve certain specific functions. As functions change, old businesses die and new ones arise. Or old ones by new ones, expand, lop off old pieces, etc. They are, by nature, not very adaptable.

Tie that in with the fact that social networking technologies are rather young, were originally targeted at individuals, not enterprises, and are in a phase of rapid evolution, and you’ve got a pretty clear picture of slow adoption.

And the idea of targeting enterprise technologies towards the users’ needs, rather than the enterprise’s needs is still fairly new. Businesses around the world are discovering that intranets need to be designed around common user tasks and workflows and the “user perspective”, not just enterprise systems.

Additionally, many businesses are not currently geared towards creating a connective and supportive environment for their workforces. The larger change of which we speak is not just about adopting enterprise 2.0 technologies, but about shifting to a more human-centered business approach.

By: Shion Guha

Shion Guha — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:18:12 +0000

Excellent post Professor,

I agree with you. Might I add that as of the current moment, more and more innovative approaches to collaborative management are being discovered and implemented.

For instance, Microsoft, traditionally, a tightly coupled organization is launching has formed a new work group to manage collaborative product design – incorporating all possible stakeholders to the product including the end users. For instance, in the current development phase of Dynamics, it is “trying” out a system of allowing customer collaboration on all aspects of the project including design specifications and handling.