An archive of my writings from 2007 till 2011. If you're interested in the recent stuff, visit my Tumblr at dvirreznik.com.
I first saw Wordle over at Adam Gartenberg, and done it immediately. Since then, Alan, Roo and TED have done it also. Tagging is very popular now, and serves as an easy way to locate information, so why not tag everything?
And – IBM’s own Jonathan Feinberg created it – kudos !
So, here’s my CV, as a tag cloud.
Monday morning at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston was a day Microsoft will probably want to forget: MOSS 2007 was hammered by Lotus Connections, as an enterprise social software solution, out-of-the-box.
IBM really did put on a great show and demo at Enterprise 2.0, led by Suzanne Minassianminassian@us.ibm.com and Heidi Votawheidi_votaw@us.ibm.com. Their preparation and presentation of Lotus Connections were superb !
Earlier today I attended and spoke at KM Conference, in Tel Aviv. At first glance, I didn’t like what I heard – the speakers referred to MOSS as ‘the best portal solution in Israel and WW’. Folks, MOSS has two distinctive pieces: Sharepoint team services and document sharing (WSS) and Sharepoint Portal. All the 3rd party vendors (which sponsored the conference) enhanced the team collaboration and document sharing. MOSS does have a big piece of market share, especially in Israel, but organizations often use its team collaboration piece, thinking they have a full-featured portal solution.
Here’s a short selection of what went down this week in Boston:
CIO.com: Enterprise 2.0 Faceoff: Microsoft Lags Behind IBM in Social Software
While both vendors showed their products could integrate with existing e-mail systems (especially e-mail systems that they sell, such as Notes and Exchange), IBM’s Lotus Connections looked, at minimum, a year or more ahead of SharePoint in its social computing capabilities out of the box.
CMS Watch: IBM-Microsoft shoot-out at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
IBM came off looking better for various reasons. They fielded a more focused demo team — never to be underestimated — but also because Connections has some slick, Ajax interfaces, and SharePoint does not. Ajax does not necessarily bring better usability, but done right, it can simplify complex interfaces.
ITSinsider: First day surprise at Enterprise 2.0 Boston
The first one, Social Computing Platforms: IBM and Microsoft revealed an unlikely sturdy competitor in the sea of terrific startups that are competing in this new arena. IBM, yes, IBM demonstrated a competitive product. I had never seen such a thorough demo of Lotus Connections. It had a terrific UI, more 2.0 features than I could even keep up with, and the woman who was taking us through the demo, clearly “got it.”
agile in atlanta: IBM shows Microsoft that social computing is about the people
Apparently Microsoft focused on email and document management, which did not wow the crowd. IBM got points for talking about how social networking is about the people.
The Intelligent Enterprise: IBM-Microsoft shootout at Enterprise 2.0
IBM came off looking better for various reasons. They fielded a more focused demo team — never to be underestimated — but also because Connections has some slick, Ajax interfaces, and SharePoint does not. Ajax does not necessarily bring better usability, but done right, it can simplify complex interfaces.
The twitter message quoted here belongs to Lawrence Liu, Microsoft’s SharePoint Senior Technical Product Manager, which sums up nicely the difference between IBM and Microsoft, in the enterprise social software space.
IBM released its financial results for the first-quarter, ended March 31st 2008.
Couple of important points from the report, which is available at ibm.com/investor/1q08:
Software revenues were $4.8B, up 14%, with all 5 brands showing Y/Y growth.
Lotus delivered another growth quarter, rising 17% compared to 1Q 2007.
“… revenues for Lotus software, which allows collaborating and messaging by clients in real-time communication and knowledge management, increased 17 percent year over year.”
Sam Palmisano, IBM CEO:
IBM had a very good quarter, and a good start to 2008. These results reinforce our confidence in IBM’s ability to perform well in a dynamic global economy. Our performance is a tribute to the way we have repositioned our company over the past several years, as well as the hard work of IBMers across the globe.
!!!Last minute update!!!
We are going to showcase IBM/Lotus Collaboration solutions (Enterprise 2.0) at the upcoming TheMarker Com.Vention, coming Sunday-Monday, at Avenue, Airport City, Israel.
TheMarker Com.Vention is the largest Internet event in Israel, held by TheMarker.com, the leading IT news publisher in Israel. The speakers list is impressive, and includes, among others:
Craig Newmark (Craig’s list), Peter Hirschberg (Technorati), Rachel Masters (Ning), Jeff Pulver (Pulver Media), Gary Shainberg (BT), David Isenberg (Isen) and Robert Schoble.
Look up the IBM booth at the event, hear our collaboration solutions, watch the demo, set up follow-up meetings and (most important) – play with our Sony PS/3 game consoles.
Alex and myself will share this event – Alex will be on Sunday (day 1) and I will take Monday (day 2). See you at the event.
I’m heading to a short vacation, so I’ll leave you with this magnificent Sony Bravia commercial, featuring purple…
Went to my first Jeff Pulver’s Breakfast clubs, at Tel Aviv harbor. I met Jeff last month, lecturing at KM Summit – he was at the hotel, doing back-to-back meetings (I think it was something like 30..). The concept of these breakfasts is very cool, and Jeff really got this down to a form of art. Upon arrival you get a little welcome package, with stickers to write your name and tagline, and another blank sticker that serves as your personal ‘tag cloud’ – so people you meet can tag you.
Jeff explains it better in this video.
The most interesting thing for me was meeting couple of 12 year old kids, who came with one’s mom, to see and learn what social networking is all about. The kids are familiar with blogs (although they don’t write any), know what facebook is (but use Ning instead) – but social gatherings are not IN yet. If you think about it, that sounds strange, since the first groups are formed in pre-school and high-school, so the transition to social networks should be quite natural. That’s not the case here. The kids were quite the attraction – Jeff also spoke with them, and interviewed them, so did Kfir Pravda.
Generation Y seems so real all of a sudden…
