There may be an interesting conference coming up, its an aftermath of Demo 2007, instead of the selected group of start-up companies presenting but having to pay for the opportunity, something similar without the need to pay. Its organized by the people from Techcrunch and Jason Calacanis. More details can be found at Calacanis’s blog.
Enterprise mashup tool
There is a very interesting article by Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNet, that introduces an IBM mashup platform for enterprises called QEDWiki
its also possible to see a short demo of the platform in action by Mr. Hinchcliffe at this address.
About
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If I’d been asked to tag my interests they would probably include:
disruptive technologies, processes, change, innovation, organizations, and the idea of future scenarios.
I’ve been working with companies on building an on-line community of users around their product, and have recently began lecturing to organizations about the use of enterprise web 2.0 tools (always interested to know more about new tools, and also about methods of measuring these tools). You can find some of my thoughts on democratizing enterprises and more recent writing on social networking tools in the enterprise.
The Free and Open Source world has been and still is a great knowledge base of many of the current processes i’m interested in. For instance, the dynamics of social networking tools in enterprises, a culture of innovation, future organizations, democratization of certain enterprises, marketing techniques in a communication intensive world, and more are not new in the open source space, while many of these have been practiced by open source companies and communities for a while now.
At late 2004 I’ve started a database of Open Source companies. The database project, includes information about Open Source companies, their community relationship, ecosystem’s and many more, and was a semi-research project. It hasn’t been maintained for quite a while but can be found here. The database also includes a list of Israeli open source companies their area of expertise and their contact information.
I’m Founder/Director at Vaya Research Center for FOSS where we’ve been building a system that will provide support services for Israeli schools teaching and implementing FOSS. The project is a joint venture with ISOC IL and a major Israeli FOSS news and forum site called Whatsup.
The system is being written by Meir Kriheli and is based on Django, it promises to be a great Wiki style system. You can check it out at http://schools.whatsup.co.il (still in Beta stage and currently only for Hebrew speakers).
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