Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment. AUGUST 2010 • Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika

Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them. Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts February 2009

Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way companies do business. But can these tools help them achieve their goals? NOVEMBER 2009 Source: Business Technology Office

This Read/Write Web article is about what has happened to Newsvine since this startup was bought 2 years ago by MSNBC the joint Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company venture.

My New Favorite Podcast

I am a big Podcast fan and typically listen to them about 2-3 hours a day. I use my NET (No Extra Time) periods when I am working out, doing my email, or driving. It keeps me up to date and I like getting a good understanding of smart people.

ALTHOUGH the economy has made it easier to gain access to high-end interior designers, it can still be hard to find the perfect fit. One route is to connect with a new online venture called Decorati Design Advisors.

Cisco CEO explains how he has embrassed web 2.0 technologies as a new management concept

Israel's DEMO/TechCrunch50-like event featured Confidela, Cellerium, Tweegee and Camspace among other promising startups.

The five P's of getting started with Social Media as a business

Benjamin Wayne cites data from Credit Suisse that YouTube will lose $470 million in 2009. He contends there is no biz model where Google can recoup distribution costs.

Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project , discusses how people use the Internet and how libraries can address the needs of the different types of users.

"Given that Twitter, the company, has no clear path to monetization and no real record of reliability or responsiveness, I think it's legitimate to wonder how long Twitter, the social phenomenon, can keep gaining momentum.

Discusses ways to evaluate your website's effectiveness beyond Web Analytics stats.

A New Zealand judge has "opened the legal floodgates" by approving the use of the social-networking website Facebook to serve court papers according to a Wellington lawyer quoted Tuesday.

Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving, an acclaimed science writer told a gathering of the techno-hip at South By South West Interactive Festival on Friday.

Italians are being urged to abstain from more contemporary pleasures, like texting, Facebook and iPods. It's like declaring war on song and dance... oh, they did that already...

Examines online tools for finding health information, specifically the new Web 2.0 tools. (Note that the article discusses American health resources.)

Provides a list of sites providing educational mathematical games for students of all ages and skill levels.

Describes some ways to successfully implement social software (wikis, blogs, etc.) in business. Provides concrete examples.

Looks at Web 2.0 in a business context, positing that with any social software implementation failure will happen and that it is important.

Discusses participatory Internet media, "how do people find the time" and the role of television as opiate of the masses in the 20th century (comparing it to the role of gin in the Industrial Revolution).

The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.