I\ve just found this cartoon http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-04/

Enjoy!

This article http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_5_web_trends_of_200 9_the_real-time_web.php by the ReadWriteWeb discusses "probably "he most hyped trend of 2009: the Real-time web". The article mentions that real-time web has become a core part of many internet services this year: Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Google, Delicious, Wordpress, and many others.

Very interesting new report by O'Reilly and Battelle available at http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/101 94

There is discussion also on realtime business. A quote from page 9: "Real time is not limited to social media or mobile. Much as Google realized that a link is a vote, WalMart realized that a customer purchasing an item is a vote, and the cash register is a sensor counting that vote. Real-time feedback loops drive inventory. WalMart may not be a Web 2.0 company, but..

Back in the mid-1980s, in the US, the Usenet was a nation-wide network of thousands of computers, tied together by telephone links. The Usenet acted as a bulletin board where anyone could post notes. Users would post messages like "we have a Foobar model 37 computer, and we're trying to hook up a Yoyodyne tape to it. Can anyone help?" Often someone would respond, solving the problem in minutes. Sound familiar? (excerpt from "The Cuckoo's Egg - Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espion..

Over the years digital signage in public places has become an increasingly common sight in shopping common sight in shopping centers around the world.

                                                TruMedia have been pioneering the smart sign surveillance technology.

However until recently there's always been one big problem with the expensive advertising medium: How can advertisers tell if anyone is actually watching it?

To solve that problem, ad..

I plan to discuss the topic of social media in corporate context from a user point of view. How can adaptation of social media change the way employees work, create and maintain networks, share, seek and create knowledge or even build up their careers and reputations?

Social media as a phenomenon is widely user driven and traditional "implementation" does not seem viable. If the use of social media is valued in a company, a good way to enhance adaptation is to state the benefits its use offers ..

Value of social media companies is usually based on the number of users their product (usually website) has. To attract as many users as possible and to utilize network effects, users can't be charged for using the basic service in most of the cases. That's why companies have to have different sources of revenue to be able to make profit and to find venture capitalists to invest in them.

The most obvious source of revenue is advertising. With great number of users some social media companies ca..

I have the following idea for my essay:

How can the new so called enterprise 2.0 techniques like wikis and blogs change the way the work is done at companies? How these social media based ideas are different from current IS offerings to companies? What does it for example mean that a company stops using Word to create documents individually and employees begin to do their work using a wiki?

I plan to cover what is the real value added by these new techniques that are based on Web 2.0, and what d..

I would propose the following to be my essay topic:

Investigate the attractiveness factors of virtual communities, what draws people to participate and how these factors can be enhanced to increase member interaction and value co-creation in the community. This seems to be important topic on the media field, since the overwhelming amount of different forums have created knowlegde overflow for normal users and they have increasingly passivated, or shifted to be "lurkers" in the virtual communiti..

I have been interested in finding links between Real-Time Economy and Social Technologies.

I understand RTE as organizations and communities carrying out effectively and efficiently the present duties and regenerating continuously for future challenges. It is essential to understand that organizations are living systems and learning through relationships with its environments. In this context key issues are conversations and language. Almost classical text for this topic is “The Little Grey Book..