Web2.0 Expo Day 1
It’s 1996 all over again folks. The hype is flowing, bloggers blogging and thetwitterheads are twittering. There’s more excitement than I’ve seen since the Web1.0 bubble started to inflate. My focus this week is in the social meets enterprise space, especially focused on how wikis with extensible social frameworks can stretch to fill the collaboration space.
I was reading Wiki Patterns on the plane ride out and was struck by the contrast the author (Stewart Mader) drew between structured collaboration architectures and the flatness of a wiki. If we don’t completely understand the use patterns, or if in fact they are still evolving, should we really be deploying rigid hierarchical topologies and expect them to work?
Had a great discussion with Stewart about this and decided immediately he’s a person whose thoughts you should follow.
Other interesting threads are in the open ID data portability space. How many profiles should you have? Personal, professional, theme related? How many of each? It’s a common question within the enterprise as well. Employee ID, LAN ID, wiki login, single sign-on issues are more relevant in the enterprise then perhaps in the public space since use is mandated.
Sitting in the Blogtropolis blogger lounge right now, seeing faces that must belong to my Twitter stream, interesting how a global social network is still relevant in finding a person across the room.
More thoughts later…
