Companies may start with the idea of helping employees feel more connected, but that's just the beginning. With easier and faster connections among people, suddenly cross-division collaboration happens more naturally, leading to greater innovation. Sigue leyendo...

MySpace is as pure a Web 2.0 play as you're likely to find and they've exploited user generated content and network effects to become the #1 visited site on the Web (as of last week), from out of practically nowhere two years ago. This is an extremely impressive achievement and shows the power of Web 2.0 techniques to quickly best even the very largest and most established industry leaders, including Google and Yahoo! Sigue leyendo...

The good news for startups is that the answer seems to be no, Amazon is not unique in their success of their APIs. Certainly eBay has achieved a large measure of success with its open APIs, with over 60K registered developers and a large amount of API use. Salesforce too has been relatively successful with their open platform, and Google has as well with it's increasingly robust set of API offerings. Sigue leyendo...