This week a lot of people were discussing what the definition of Enterprise2.0 (or Enterprise Karmic Koala as Ron Tolido puts it) should be, criticism grows on Apple and the iPhone and a whitepaper (PDF) by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle on Web squared.

Social collaboration tools

• Visible Banking: the Social Media Directory
• How to Extend Your Customer Experience Through Social Media
• Pfizer will recruit patients through online community
• Why social networking tools will go enterprise: All your employees are using them
• Why isn’t my SharePoint Environment Social??? – SharePoint Joel’s SharePoint Land
  As we prepare our environments for SharePoint 2010 to take advantage of
  new features and solutions, there is still much more we can do to so we
  can take advantage of the social features today. You may have read the
  heated debate around whether SharePoint 2007 is social software or if
  it’s true enterprise 2.0 or read the various whitepapers that drill
  into the feature sets. Have you stepped back and looked at your
  environment and asked… Did we turn on those knobs and switches?

Enterprise2.0

• Annoyed at ‘Enterprise 2.0′
• A Defining Moment
• Enterprise 2.0 is Not an Application
  Enterprise 2.0 should be a structure that allows great flexibility in
  the choice and use of applications throughout an organization,
  supporting the applications with APIs to allow data to be taken from
  and deposited into central data stores. Enterprise 2.0 currently
  “fails” because we are attempting 1.0 deployments of 2.0 applications.
• Enterprise 2.0: Skip the Pilot
  Get out your pitchforks, I’m about to commit Enterprise 2.0 heresy.
   There’s an orthodoxy in Enterprise 2.0 circles about how you’re
  supposed to run an implementation. The orthodoxy goes something like
  this: Start with small-scale pilots, define your business objectives,
  watch the pilots closely, evaluate their success, make a go/no-go
  decision. (A good recent articulation of this view is in Chris
  McGrath’s post on 8 Tips for a Successful Social Intranet Pilot.) As
  far as I can tell it’s what everyone thinks. In fact, it’s what I used
  to think. Unfortunately, it’s dead wrong. The orthodoxy is wrong for a
  very simple reason: Size matters. By constraining the size of your
  pilot, you significantly alter the way your company can and will use
  the tools.
• Enterprise Karmic Koala
  When on holidays, I try to be unaware of technology as much as possible
  (people that happen to know my e-mail out-of-office messages will
  recognise this). Only natural. But not as easy as it seems. Two years
  ago, when we drove back through the French Lorraine region, we ended up
  in an ultra-modern fuel station that had literally crashed due to a
  software error. A guy in a yellow emergency vest was nervously
  searching for a Windows start-up disk while all of his screens just
  showed that all too familiar sandglass. And last year, when we cruised
  through lovely California we could not even imagine how to do it
  without TripAdvisor, Google Maps and a bunch of other on-line
  travelling tools. This year, after returning from Spain and the Alsace,
  I decided to buy a new bicycle. I found a not too expensive Gitane
  mountain bike – completely made in France, quite an unexpected pleasure
  – only to find out later that the model is called ‘Fitz Roy 2.0’.

Numbers

• BlackBerry Users Work An Extra 15 Hours Per Week
• Who’s Winning the Smartphone Wars?
• Numbers we track in our online/offline life
• Social Network Penetration by Age and Gender

Web development

• 25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started
• 50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials
• Flex + Force.com: A Powerful Combination for Building Great, Data-Driven Web Applications
• Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting?
• Has IE6 Finally Reached the End of the Line?

Is Apple losing it?

• Facebook developer slams Apple censors
  The man behind Facebook’s iPhone app has called for Apple to scrap its
  policy of reviewing and rejecting apps submitted to the App Store.
• The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?
• Facebook App Developer To Apple: Tear Down This App Store Wall

General

• You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again | Epicenter | Wired.com
  More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known
  capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store
  information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called
  Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers
  reported Monday.
• Does the GPL Matter? In a Word, Yes
  Given that I’ve used the “Does x matter?” conceit myself, I understand
  completely that John Edwards’ “Does the GPL matter?” headline is merely
  a rhetorical device. Nor does it escape me that its sensationalism is
  designed, either by Edwards or his editor, to attract the very
  attention it’s receiving.
• Microsoft Brings Twitter And Facebook To The Emerging World With OneApp
• Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (PDF)
• A Glimpse at Web 3.0: 13 Semantic Web Applications Reviewed
  Web 2.0 was all about getting people to connect with one another and
  establishing a presence for them on the web. Now that you have gotten
  the chance to get to know each other through the web, it’s time for our
  computers to socialize. The aim of the next iteration of the web, Web
  3.0, is that computers will be able to understand the content and the
  information they contain. Rather than the data just being a document,
  it will be put within context helping the computer to relate pieces of
  information and present them to you accordingly. Therefore, you will no
  longer have to sift through a pile of search results, some of which are
  irrelevant, to get the information your want.
• Multitouch interface for Firefox is stunning (Video)
• Newspaper replaces writers with search algorithm
• Goodbye Virtual Reality, Hello Augmented Reality
  If you haven’t yet heard about Augmented Reality or Web Squared, allow
  me to make a quick introduction. This is the next iteration of the Web
  and also desktop and mobile applications and is indicative of the
  future hybrid Web and device experience. And no, it’s not called Web
  3.0. Augmented Reality joins the likes of the Semantic Web,
  Geo-Location, Artificial Intelligence, among many other emerging
  technologies in what the father of Web 2.0, Tim O’Reilly, refers to as
  Web Squared.
• BBC uses Google Gears to test location-based mobile
• Mashups in Action: Stories from the Global Mashup Developer Community

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Rick Mans is Information Architect and a social media evangelist within Capgemini. You can follow and connect with him via Twitter or Delicious