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End Users at the Office 2.0 Conference

by Ismael Ghalimi on 08/15/2008 17:24   0 comments ,9 views
Tags: myventurepad, office 2.0 conference

This year, executives from many large end user organizations will speak at the Office 2.0 Conference, including GE, Stanford Univeristy, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Xerox, and Wachovia. Our Agenda is almost complete now, and our demo scheduling system should be released sometime next week. We're also shipping the first HP 2133 Mini-Note PC devices to paying attendees today. Registrations are going strong, and the hotel is almost sold out....

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Enterprise 2.0 is Innovation

by Kate C on 08/15/2008 02:08   0 comments ,8 views
Tags: enterprise software, myventurepad, enterprise 2.0+australia

Spoke at the Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals conference in North Sydney yesterday - my slides are on slideshare - and was grateful for the opportunity to consider enterprise 2.0 adoption. Some really good questions from the floor (HT: @chieftech, @innotecture, @kdelarue) about how it relates to innovation prompted some further insights on my part.

The entire process of adopting enterprise 2.0 is an innovation activity. It is about .....
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Widgets, applets, snippets, games - the future for Apple iPhone

by Charlie Hoult on 08/12/2008 17:11   0 comments ,15 views
Tags: myventurepad, iphone+applets, apple, iphone+small business
Apple took $1m per day in sales of apps at its Appstore on iTunes since launching the new 3G iPhone. Steve Jobs says it’s going to create a $1billion business… well, he said it’d ‘crest at half a billion soon’, which is a nice way to describe the run-rate of takings…

What is significant about this new marketplace isn’t just the valuation positive for Apple, it’s the way it gives a new lease of life to a whole load of entrepreneurs. Last.fm loo...

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Cool link about using LinkedIn to build your small business

by Pamela Slim on 08/07/2008 19:39   0 comments ,16 views
Tags: myventurepad, linkedin+small business marketing

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I have been a member of LinkedIn for a couple of years, but have not used it at all to market my business.  I just got a short email from the service that shared a video of a small business owner , Sasha Strauss from Innovation Protocol who has used it to generate lots of referrals.  I thought it was really interesting, and when my book is done (ahhh!  less than 6 weeks!), I will definitely look into using LinkedIn more effec...
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I've Deleted All My Alerts And Replaced Them With Filtrbox

by Brad Feld on 08/07/2008 17:26   0 comments ,14 views
Tags: myventurepad, time management, filtrbox
I have been looking forward to this day for a while.  I've always been obsessed with following any news or blog mentions of any of the companies I'm an investor and the people I work with.  For the past few years I've satisfied my obsession with an extensive set of Google Alerts (via email), Yahoo Alerts (via email) and Technorati Alerts (via RSS).  Occasionally I'll add something else to the mix usually through RSS (such as a Fri...
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Gmail to Exchange?

by Jeff Nolan on 08/01/2008 17:26   0 comments ,36 views

In terms of an email interface, Gmail pretty much delivers the goods. If you have the choice to use Gmail instead of Exchange, well that’s a pretty attractive option for a number of reasons and as good as Outlook is, what a lot of people are discovering is that it’s not the killer app that it was once thought to be.

That seemed like a pain, so this week I just started using Gmail as my default. I’ve not looked back. This is anecdotal and ...

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Official Google Blog: More transparency in customized search results

by Albert Wenger on 07/31/2008 05:16   0 comments ,18 views
Tags: myventurepad, google+seo, google+customized search, google+transparency
Official Google Blog: More transparency in customized search results: Lest anybody think that I am anti-google based on my previous post, here is a great example of google doing the right thing by increasing transparency on how they customize search results.  Now all that would be needed is an opportunity for endusers to opt out of geo and recent search tracking on this information screen.
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Application Development 2.0

by James Taylor on 07/30/2008 20:52   0 comments ,21 views
Tags: myventurepad, collaboration+application development 2.0, ann all, developer end user collaboration
Ann All had a post on Agile development brings IT, business together that had the great phrase “application development 2.0″. In the article she mentioned some very worthy objectives for this 2.0 version of application development. Here they are, paraphrased slightly.
  • Encourage close collaboration between developers and end users
  • Involve users in quality as...
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Google Acquires Omnisio, YouTube to Get New Features

by Andy Beal on 07/30/2008 17:12   0 comments ,25 views
Tags: myventurepad, video tools, google+omnisio, embedded compilations

Google has wasted no time in acquiring Omnisio an online video tools company that only launched publicly in March of this year.

TechCrunch explains what might soon come to YouTube via this acquisition:

The service lets users annotate videos, mash various clips up, and synchronize Slideshare presentations to videos (great for conference presentations). Omnisio users can extract sections of clips they find on the web (currently only those on Y...

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My iPhone went on a shopping spree

by Gadi Shamia on 07/30/2008 01:32   0 comments ,21 views
Tags: myventurepad, iphone, mobile communication
You thought you only bought an iPhone. $199+ sales tax and you are all set. Little did you know that Apple disguised a little robot inside the iPhone that has one goal in life: boost the sluggish economy. Just like Bill Gates and his foundation Steve Jobs joined the philanthropic club of successful CEOs, dedicating themselves for the greater good- in this case, introducing the Apple version of the economic stimulus package.

How does it work? T...

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