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By: The TechCrunch 53,651 are Now a Million | CloudAve

The TechCrunch 53,651 are Now a Million | CloudAve — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:58:04 +0000

[...] why even Web 2.0 Father Tim O’Reilly warns entrepreneurs to get real, why Web 2.0 blogs like TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb are adding Enterprise focus – the world is waking up, smells coffee and [...]

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:34:21 +0000

Cisco just bought Jabber. Pay attention.

By: Bookmarks - 18.09.2008 | ErkenntnisWerk

Bookmarks - 18.09.2008 | ErkenntnisWerk — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:36:03 +0000

[...] The Social Enterprise (Tags: adoption report study technology socialnetworking socialmedia enterprise web2.0 enterprise2.0) There continues to be a misunderstanding of the enormous transitions enterprise software and IT are going through. While Web 2.0 technologies have substantial holes related to security, standards, and IT buyin, even those simple metrics are yielding data about accelerating adoption. According to Awareness, Inc. surveys, business acceptance of social media applications doubled from 37 % in 2007 to 69% in 2008. [...]

By: Basil

Basil — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:34:12 +0000

@jimmy Hear hear! The only time something gets covered here is if it’s web2.0 or social media, and has thus already been talked about on techcrunch. Sometimes there’s an enterprise spin (like with these new enterprise twitter clones), but never any real technology that real companies use.

Where’s the news about enterprise networking, storage, servers, and software? I rarely see anything about Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, or Oracle here…

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:01:05 +0000

This is a great site for insights into how messaging affects businesses. It’s a pretty crappy site for covering enterprise IT-related startups. Why are companies like Expensify on TechCrunch and not on TechCrunchIT?

By: Joe Cure

Joe Cure — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:20:48 +0000

@PN – I don’t see how that’s relevant to the topic at hand. It seems the purpose of the post is that social media can be an effective tool in the professional world and even compliment existing IT systems. That’s an interesting (and I believe correct) point, and one that is often overlooked.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:47:33 +0000

So did any of those social media services make money yet? I mean, not VC infusion, real money?

By: Learn to Adapt Links for September 17th | Learn to Adapt

Learn to Adapt Links for September 17th | Learn to Adapt — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:10:03 +0000

[...] The Social Enterprise – Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT posts thoughtful reflection on (some) IT leaders resistance to social applications in the enterprise. From the article: "No wonder the reaction is fear and denial; the saving grace is that a new wave of middle management will not tolerate the arrogance of earlier times, when IT was the implementor of corporate policies designed to prevent employees from wasting time on the job." [...]