Dion Hinchcliffe
About: Dion Hinchcliffe is founder and chief technology officer for the Enterprise Web 2.0 advisory and consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company, based in Alexandria, Virginia. A veteran of software development, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for software quality. He has extensive practical experience with enterprise technologies and he consults, speaks, and writes prolifically on IT and software architecture. Dion still works in the trenches with enterprise IT clients in the federal government and Fortune 1000. He also speaks and publishes about Web 2.0 and SOA on a regular basis. Dion recently contributed to the book "Web 2.0 Design Patterns: What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know" and currently blogs on ZDNET and Social Computing Magazine.
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Enterprise 2.0: Lively conversations driving change
--Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston has been over for a few days and coverage continues to pour out in the mainstream press and the blo...
Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
--There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based ...
Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential
--Some of the big IT news over the weekend was the announcement that Forrester predicts that the Enterprise 2.0 space will be a $4.6 billion industry...
Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
--The striking contrast between the stories that we’ve been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vi...
Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
--The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build...
Standards support for mashups emerge
--The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, wa...
openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
--The decision two weeks ago by Yahoo! to support the burgeoning openid initiative, where users choose their preferred user account provider for logg...
12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
--The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we'll finally see these gel into a ...
The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007
--Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace t...
Significant workplace inroads for Enterprise 2.0?
--According to a random poll I recently conducted on Facebook, just over a quarter of 300 respondents -- 27% of them in all -- answered in the affirm...
SaaS and Office 2.0 evolving towards Enterprise 2.0?
--Yesterday on the Boston waterfront at the Reinventing the Enterprise summit, a lively panel of industry luminaries discussed and debated the topic ...
The state of Enterprise 2.0
--Industry analysts, CIOs, and business leaders around the world are continuing to try to read the industry tea leaves in 2007 when it comes to the s...
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More fun with Enterprise 2.0 diagrams ? ITSinsider
Good blueprint though I'd make a number of changes. And there's the Enterprise 2.0 meme map to do as well. This is something that is ripe for a merger to capture the ideas and their connection.
Why Companies Need Web 2.0 - Forbes.com
Forbes new high level piece on why companies need Web 2.0. Not bad but nothing new as most Fortune 500s move carefully to 2.0 this year.
bit.ly, a simple url shortener
It looks like http://bit.ly is going to be the URL shrinker to beat. The features are the best including stats and tracking. One char longer than http://is.gd
Jester
A Javascript client for REST APIs that uses Rails conventions. It actually makes interacting with WOA resouces quite easy.
Lively - Welcome
A new entry from Google in the virtual social spaces arena. Unfortanately, it only works with Windows Vista/XP. Essentialy competes with SecondLife and is a surprisingly stealth entry but like many things Google, is worth a close watch.
Enterprises become the battleground for social networking | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-14 | By Paul Krill
Excellent piece from Infoworld exploring how enterprises are becoming ground zero for the social networking wars. Key observation: Consumer apps, like with IM, may be the winner.
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Good point, Duane. Done!
Hey bro! Update your profile. Are you too busy writing books or something?
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Let's jam man!!!