There’s more and more case studies on social media, web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0. ….
Social Media Case Studies | The Parallax View: Social Media inside the Firewall / Enterprise Social Networks

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Thought provoking article on the applications of Web 2.0 internally (sometimes called Enterprise 2.0) vs Externally…

Is, and I know how heretical this may sound, is social media outside the firewall truly productive? I guess I can guess some of the answers in terms of wisdom of clouds, tapping into the mindset of consumers and turning that into lucrative products, niche marketing in the long long tail. But, does any of this actually generate wealth? In the firewall we create things and sell them, that’s the business model. Most of what goes on there is invisible. We want at least some privacy, and often we want a lot, confidentiality is important to any business – few, if none can be 100% transparent.

Which side of the firewall is hotter?

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http://animoto.com/

Create custom animations for videos

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I’d love to hear from people with experience with Thingamy. It sounds like you can only GET IT if you’ve used it….

Thingamy is the work-flow structure in itself – you (or somebody else) fires up a ‘flow’ when the customer calls, a patient arrives or whatever that starts your value adding activities. After that everything is automatic, tasks are delivered immediately when the previous task is done, it’s delivered to the right person and all information and tools are delivered in the same instance still allowing for participant-induced changes to the flow-path.

Thingamy business software

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Interview with author of Mental Modes:

These days I’m trying to call it behavior, motivation, philosophy, and emotion but stay away from statement of fact, references to things, preference, and the actual use of the tool. I want to know what people think as they walk down the hallway to go do something. I call this the hallway test.

What Is Your Mental Model? – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

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Card sorting involves users of a website ’sorting’ cards into groups that make the most sense to them. The cards represent content on the website. This process provides insight into how users think about information.
OptimalSort – What is it?

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JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and other dynamic languages are remaking the Web and bringing programming to the masses. Where should developers place their bets?
Dynamic programming futures

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Great article about why open source projectsw are so UNusable for end-clients.

I think this ties in with why the great Web 2.0 software so far has been proprietary!

I also like the take on the value of interface design and wireframing:

Coding before design. Software tends to be much more usable if it is, at least roughly, designed before the code is written. The desired human interface for a program or feature may affect the data model, the choice of algorithms, the order in which operations are performed, the need for threading, the format for storing data on disk, and even the feature set of the program as a whole. But doing all that wireframing and prototyping seems boring, so a programmer often just starts coding — they’ll worry about the interface later.

http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

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Google Calendar Sync syncs it to my Google Calendar — and since I also have Google Calendar Sync running on my desktop, the event then syncs from Google Calendar to Outlook calendar on my desktop. All of my calendar views are always up to date, and I can choose whichever one I want to use.

Official Google Blog: Google Calendar Sync

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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide for O’Reilly

Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations.

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide | O’Reilly Media

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