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Techcrunch ran a very interesting series of posts about the history of social networking . They were written by Mark Suster ( @msuster ). I think you should go ahead and read all the posts, but I'll pass on some highlights here to get you started. Marks posts are about the “6 C’s of Social Networking” – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). He stresses that social networks exists before they were hyped in our time they just work better now "and there are more people doin’ it." And a bit further on: "Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.  But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit, reinvented, with more people online and trained. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0 companies versus the Web 1.0 ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to c...

Next up is Sean McNiven , SAP . Sean is head of the Social Web. Sean starts out with Web 0.0. Web 0.0 was and is the coffee machine. It’s still their running communication platform. This platform is now also happening on the web. The rules are practically the same, says Sean. So the guidelines are the same as well. Be honest, be respectful and add value, don’t pick fights, separate opinion from fact, be human, etc. A brief history of their employee network: 1995-1997 DMS and structure; 1998 SAPNet Communication, Team Collaboration and self service; 205 Corporate Portal based on Netweaver; 2007-200 Corporate Portal, Relaunch Enhanced UI and Personalization; 2010 SAP Employee Network, SAP Corporate Portal + integrated external tools and social media / Enterprise search. The governance changed considerably over the years. From open/decentral to closed/central in 2007. Now the governance is hybrid: open groups, governed communities, expiry of unused groups. SAP has many modules that integr...

Oof, really have to get back to blogging... I've been very busy with a product creation process re-engineering project. In general terms it's business process re-engineering. Recently the business team release their process descriptions, way of working descriptions and requirements to manage the processes. I'm in the Architecture Team, but also one of the Functional Team members. So now it was our turn to take the requirements and flip them into a functional specification. Interesting but cumbersome work... As I tweeted I'm also reading Chris Anderson's book 'Free'. And I'm really enjoying it! One of the interesting remarks he makes is: every that goes from atoms to bit will be 'free'. But Chris Anderson doesn't stop thinking. In the last Wired issues he says the following. Very interesting stuff! "Peer production, open source, crowdsourcing, user-generated content — all these digital trends have begun to play out in the world of atoms,...

John Newton (co-founder of Documentum and Alfresco ) has an interesting post on 'The future of Enterprise Content Management' . This guy knows a lot about ECM and I find him a thought-leader in this area. Here's some of what he had to say in his long, but very interesting post: My guess as to what will happen to the ECM market is: SAP will buy an ECM vendor further filling out one of the prime stacks in Geoff’s Stack Wars OpenText continues to look for a buyer. Could they hook up with SAP after being jilted by Oracle? OpenText ’s iXOS acquisition makes this an attractive pairing. Vignette, partnering with companies like Microsoft, are testing the waters for a possible acquisition Interwoven is testing a niche play by retreating into Marketing applications, but may still opt for being acquired. EMC could do worse than to acquire Interwoven. They could also help Microsoft. The remaining players (other than Alfresco) will retreat into niche areas either around vertica...