Podcast: The economics of Web 2.0

Unlike the field of dreams of the old days of the Web, building an attractive and useful site is no guarantee that it will foster a community. Communities grow organically. 

In this podcast Cliff Saran interviews Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Don believes businesses can learn a lot from the growth of web communities like Flickr and peer collaboration such as open source development.

http://computerweekly.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-06-04T03_10_16-07_00.mp3

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A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use of wikis, blogs, and RSS, as well as a few unexpected outliers, like 39% of CIOs listen to podcasts.

Surveys do help paint a picture of what’s taking place in the large marketplace and, judiciously used, can help us make better decisions. Unfortunately, most of the current crop of Web 2.0 surveys appear to be focused on specific technologies and applications of Web 2.0 instead of the deeper and more disruptive business models and approaches.

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