Mashups
Dec 12, 2008 JackBe's Enterprise 2.0 Blog Lists Dan Woods as a Member of the 'Mashup Tribe'
Luis Derechin has a great post on JackBe's Enterprise 2.0 blog, in which he talks about Seth’s Godin's new book Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us.
As Derechin says, Godin's book explains that "A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea... A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate." More »
Dec 04, 2008 IT Business Edge Mentions JargonSpy Column
Loraine Lawson of IT Business Edge, highlights the October 28 JargonSpy column titled "Mashing Up the Corporation" on her Mergers and Acquisitions blog this week. More »
Oct 30, 2008 How Mashups are Transforming Corporations
Oct 26, 2008 Dan Woods Featured Presenter at Mashup Camp
On Nov. 17-19, an "unconference" called Mashup Camp was held in Mountain View, Calif. Mashup Camp bills itself as "The Unconference for the Uncomputer," and our very own Dan Woods will be one of the featured presenters, along with Web 2.0 luminaries such as Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and John Musser of ProgrammableWeb and about 17 others. More »
Oct 06, 2008 'Mashup Corporations' Gets a Shout-Out
A blog called Service Oriented Enterprise has a post titled Talking to the Business About SOA, which touches on some of the challenges organizations face when trying to approach the business side about SOA. At the end of the post, the author begins discussing mashups, and goes on to recommend Mashup Corporations: The End of Business As Usual, which Dan Woods coauthored. More »
Jul 28, 2008 Serious Shadow Games
Dan Woods is a featured blogger on Forbes.com. His JargonSpy blog was launched on July 28 and the first installment, called Serious Shadow Games, delves into the phenomenon of shadow IT.
International Research Forum 2008
In May 2008, top researchers from around the world gathered near Potsdam, Germany for the International Research Forum sponsored by SAP Research. For two days, these thinkers from business, academia and government examined a topic that will increasingly become part of our vocabulary: the Internet of Services. The discussion illuminated how the Internet of Services will change enterprise computing. It will help businesses leverage core strengths, find partners in new business networks, collaborate and tap new global markets. Software as a service, cloud computing and other trends are democratizing innovation as never before. The infrastructure barriers to doing business in the Internet of Services are falling away. Yet, as this book shows, this new world also poses challenges different from anything we have seen before.
Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual
Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual tells the tale of Vorpal Inc., a company that pioneers the implementation of service-oriented architecture to transform its business model. CEO Jane Moneymaker believes in marketing manager Hugo Wunderkind's idea of creating a new market using non-traditional methods based on mashups, but struggles to achieve this vision. The story illustrates what it takes to achieve cultural change, overturning established business and IT structures. By embracing a service-oriented approach Moneymaker makes Vorpal faster, flexible, and more responsive, bringing an end to business as usual.