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Now being used by four of our clients and live for more than thirty days. Built upon the Genesis Engine Operating system. Play with it today:

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The Consumer Web is A Social Web

Forums

• (Gaia-Online has 709m posts contributed by 4.2m users)

Blogs

• (8% of all Internet Users have one; ~200m blogs exist)

Wikis

• (Wikipedia has 63 new articles per hour, and maintains over 1m total)

FOAF Networks

• (MySpace.com has 55m users; receives more traffic than Google.com)

The Enterprise is A Social Enterprise

• From expanding social networks to building group memory, social software creates new possibilities for workflow

We Apply the best of the Consumer Web for the Enterprise (SME)

On demand Enterprise Software for the SME Market Safe, Secure, Powerful and works with existing systems and IT Policies, and requires No Installation.

Enterprise Software: Catching up to the Consumer Web

The enterprise software market, catch up to the consumer Web, where people are becoming used to melding data from their desktop with services online.

Social Enterprise Software is Disruptive Technology

“Blogs and wikis are starting to move into businesses as a simpler and lightweight way to do collaboration,” said Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at the Burton Group “With all new and interesting applications in the consumer space, I’m sure someone is going to figure out how to take those concepts and use them in business,” she added.

Hosted Social Enterprise Software Successful for SME Market

Hosted business applications are conducive to a “try before you buy” approach, particularly for midsize and small companies. Rather than spend $100,000 for on-premise software, a business customer can quickly sign up for a hosted application, like one from Salesforce.com, and pay on a monthly basis.

Focus Family of Products MORE THAN JUST A WIKI

Play with it yourself: http://teamfocus.pandorasquared.com/

We had to move away from a static, dead intranet,” says

Myrto Lazopoulou. “The wiki has allowed us to improve collaboration, communication and publication. We can cross time zones, improve the way teams works, reduce email and increase transparency.”

Enterprise Software Landscape

• Business Intelligence: ERP and Supply Chain Management

• CRM: Customer Relationship Management Look at what SalesForce.com did to Seibel.

• Social Software: What is your invisible corporate knowledge? Where is it stored?

• Social Networks: “If HP knew half of what HP knows, we would be twice as profitable.”

The Enterprise Software Market Shifting to Disruptive Technologies

“Everybody is calling the enterprise software market dead. But it’s really not dead. There are just new models at work.”—Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot

Gartner Group: Enterprise must Adopt Best of Consumer Web

Companies need to work out how to incorporate consumer technologies in a secure manner to provide business value for the enterprise. –Fenn Gartner Group

The Enterprise Software Market Shifting to Disruptive Technologies

“Our customers now include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley, and intelligence agencies,” says David Gilmour, CEO of Tacit Knowledge Systems.

“And they all have come to believe this technology that watches and compiles — for the benefit of the individual — is going to become a permanent backdrop and the dominant paradigm for enterprise software.”

Focus Family of Products: enabling the Social Enterprise

Perfect manifestation of the Stop Web 2.0 meme.

Thanks to Doc Searls to pointing out this Web 2.0 Parody site.

What You Will Learn at The New New Internet… (this is so way past web 2.0 its new new)

1. Gain a Deep, Non-Technical Understanding of Web 2.0 (Brilliant)
2. See Compelling Examples of Web 2.0 Software (compelling mashups!
3. Understand Why Hundreds of Web 2.0 Startups Have Launched This Year (woo hoo we are on our fourth year, second as Pandora Squared)
4. Learn Why Web 2.0 Is So Disruptive to Existing Business Models (although- I do have to say it is disruptive when applied)
5. How Some Companies Are Triggering the ‘MySpace Effect’ for Explosive Growth (riiiight)
6. How to Apply Web 2.0 Techniques to Improve Life and Business (you know mash ups with various people to find out if usability is at its peak)
7. Meet Other the Movers and Shakers in the Web 2.0 Industry (run run far fast)
8. Get A Significant Competitive Advantage In Business and Employment (cause you know you gain this in one whole day)

Enable any community to…

We were forwarded this link by Jay this afternoon: The Adventures of scaling, its close to the work that Hunter and Luis have been so hard a work to deliver…getting our engine tested on the scalability meaning what load will millions of users deliver and it raises a lot of architecture problems. Luis and Hunter, (If they ever take the time to Blog) could write a book and series on the backend scaling applications required for development in Ruby on Rails. Its important to note that by building an operating system for social networks via the Genesis Engine and The Leviticus Project we aim to enable any brand or community.

Become Part of The Trust Economy

The World is moving into something I often call “The Trust Economy” where trusted networks are becoming through technology enablement more important and active in peoples lives, directly affecting how they buy.

This is important and to now as I’ve been playing with LastFM a bit today as we have a pretty interesting Mash with the Genesis Engine the quality of the engine with its various mashes and extensions is timely especially with LastFM. Music is after all social currency.

We have an engine for peer recommendation we can use for any topic, Filmcrowd is taking off like a rocket.

So very much the point we have been making: Companies embrace Communities

A public relations firm Text 100 just opened an office in Second Life and offers to help companies to tap into the creative genius of the virtual communities.

But when you think about it, a lot of us have been doing the “New Media/ Community/ web two point oh!” work for years.

Our Mate in the UK Gary Reid has been advising and doing just this for nearly ten years this is not really anything new, its more social science than it is technology…we are simply enabling natural human behaviour

I about jumped out of my seat this morning when I read the article in Australian IT, that was oh so generously linked by Frank Arr Microsoft’s Evangalist and former CTO of NineMSN.

The Australian IT article does so many generic things like research Accenture, Gartner and IBM. They didn’t of course delve too deep into the IBM Blogging world or they would see that IBM itself is a leader in the world in: Blogging, Social Networking, and so called Web 2.0 initiatives.

The point is STOP IT. STOP the WEB 2.0 banter as if it is something new and some wonderful term that encompassess everything.

IT IS NOT ABOUT WEB 2.0 or some other naming cool thing of the day.

We have been saying it for years in Australia, we flew the team in and said it this morning in Manila, and we have been saying it in 5 major markets now for over 3 years:

It is about business and using technology as the enabler.

From the Article:

Accenture Australia technology consulting senior director Darren Russ says consumer sites that adhere to Web 2.0 principles are starting to make their corporate counterparts look tired in the eyes of new entrants to Australia’s workforce. bq. However, he says, he’s yet to find any major Australian enterprises or organisations prepared to commit to adopting Web 2.0 on a large scale. “Not at the moment,” he says. “Enterprises are just dipping their toes in the water, but we’re not aware of any organisation in Australia that’s moving to proper Web 2.0 interfaces.”

Gartner senior analyst Dion Wiggins says the Web 2.0 phenomenon is part of wider trend that has made the consumer market the “testing ground” for internet services, which later supply blueprints for enterprise applications. “I’d say that in a year’s time there’ll be a large number of enterprise products using Web 2.0, but today there are very few,” he says. We have Web 2.0 Enterprise Applications Today

Pandora Squared has an entire family of products that we have released for the Enterprise.

These products are being used TODAY, in corporations throughout south east asia.

Expect Pandora Squared’s announcement soon on these client partners and as well as our exciting investment news…

We have been so busy working on our TEAM Focus Family of products that we have neglected to start communicating about our most recent project…

TS MOO

We call this (for lack of a better definition) Top Secret Maybe One Organisation. OR TSMOO

We are kidding of course.

Truth is we have flown the entire Pandora Squared Team into Manila for The Leviticus Project.

A big part of The Leviticus Project is education, and of course launching brands around the user.

We just finished our Kickoff discussion with our client partner on the shift in the Web, and technologies behind this, most of this mornings discussion was a distilled version of our training program. We perfected this in April when we did our training at the Philippine Defense College, but no matter- each and every time we present and educate I feel we could have done so much better.

Here are the Points we suggest as the most important when it comes to understanding this shift.

Desire Lines

The Search

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Abandoning the news

Small Worlds phenomenon(network)

User Centric Business Models,

Agile and Extreme Programming as part of your markeitng!

(Youtube link of this mornings meeting will be inserted here)

This was very interesting to discover, certainly makes sense once you look at the very basic code. Being able to move the behaviour into a style sheet and then simply changing the style sheet as required or for the target platform.

Quote from Ben Nolan ... After all the work of WASP and others to promote clean markup, valid pages and graceful degradataion via css – it sucks that we’re going back to tag soup days by throwing javascript tags into our html.

The better way to do javascript is to do it unobtrusively. And it’s definitely the way to go. The only problem is that it’s a bit of a pain in the ass.

That’s why I came up with Behaviour – my solution to unobtrusive javascript behaviours.

Ben waxes poetical on everything relevant to a user centric business model. Through this Ben Barren reinforces our concept of a user ecosystem meme that we keep beating the crap out of clients with. (pun inteneded) http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2006/07/marketing-budget-crap.html

Rupert Murdoch: The speed at which it has grown. It has had no marketing. Not a penny has been spent marketing it before or after the purchase, and it just grows faster and faster every week. Now we’re taking it out to other countries. BB : The test of new products now is how much marketing they need. The more; The worse. “The future of local stations is very good provided they remain true to their roots, be very local, have their own local Web sites and do all that properly. And if they are aligned to a leading television network, they are going to be in good shape.”

Pete Cashmore writes:

“PayPerPost is a great new way to lose your credibility as a blogger – the service will pay you to write reviews of new products and services. Advertisers post “opportunities” on the site – they can specify whether the post should have pictures, and even request a positive review. That last part really crosses the line, and it’s sure to destroy any credibility you have as a writer. PayPerPost will pay more if you have a high-trafficked blog, but anyone who has spent time building up an audience would be crazy to take part.

Ted Murphy, the founder of PayPerPost, has actually been at this for a while – his BlogStar Network used to contact bloggers via email and pay them $5 to $10 per post. Positive reviews were encouraged. He sees the new system as a way to streamline the process.

PayPerPost is a terrible, terrible idea and totally unethical. But I know this stuff has been going on for a long time. Every so often, you’ll see a spate of blog comments around the blogosphere that promote certain brands – they call them “buzz” campaigns. Paying for posts is a natural evolution. And while no serious content creators will take them up on the offer, I’m deeply concerned they’ll tap into the long-tail of unethical bloggers, polluting the Google results and fooling unsuspecting readers.”

How to separate the chaff from the grain?

I am looking for a polling mechanism (bookmarklet?) that ports across browsers allowing you to flag content as inappropriate, e.g., paid hack, pornographic, hate post, etc., in situ. Should allow for generating categories out of folksonomies via the long tail. Results could even be aggregated to develop indices and quotients, e.g. Credibility Index, Creativity Index (Thanks, Richard Florida), Collaboration Quotient, etc.

Perhaps it is a tale of the coblers children or mechanics car…we have moved www.pandorasquared.com to a new hosting relationship and that company is having network problems…this is only temporary as we move from Typo to the Genesis Engine Core but we felt we should say something to that effect.

We support the Persistent Beta concept…think of this as that.

Taken from our favorite genius Danah Boyd who else?

As the world went web-a-rific, companies held onto the ship-final-products mentality in its stodgy archaic form. Until the forever-in-beta hit. I, for one, love the persistent beta. It signals that the system is continuously updating, never fully baked and meant to be organic. This is the way that it should be. Web development is fundamentally different than packaged software. Because it is the web, there’s no vast distance between producers and consumers. Distribution channels cross space and time (much to the chagrin of most old skool industries). Particularly when it comes to social software, producers can live inside their creations, directly interact with those using the system, and evolve the system alongside the practices that are emerging. In fact, not only can they, they’re stupid to do anything else