collaboration

IBM is adding social networking features to its collaboration suite, an effort to bring some of the ideas of consumer-oriented Web 2.0 sites to corporate software.

The guiding idea behind the effort is to help people tap into the collective knowledge of their co-workers, in much the way consumer social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook connect people online.

"The real phenomenon of Web 2.0 is the concept of community," Rhodin said. "What if you could create tools that allow you to tap into the collaborative wisdom of a community?"

Wondering what’s Game Changers’ Club?

This millennium is all about openness and unification. It’s more about cooperation than competition. As Jonathan Schwartz mentioned rightly, innovation happens elsewhere! At Samooha we go a step further to say that we are entering an era of Open Innovation in Enterprise IT. Gone are those days where a select few used to sit in cubicles laid within the four walls and think and talk of innovation. R&D has now come into the Open. I believe innovation happens when the fear of failing is overcome. The humiliation faced during innovation is a thrill by itself and those who take it with grace and grit will emerge winners. They are then termed as game changers!!

I am a big fan of Rajesh Acharya's idea of Samooha, which clearly is a web 3.0 model of businesses working seamlessly in a collaborative,inter-dependendent environment.

Narain shared with me another great web 3.0 idea which will allow creation of many web2.0 projects effortlessly. Connect with him if you want to forward your web 2.0 ideas faster.

Narain, also refered to me to a great project swarmcreativity.net, and this document on Coin - Collaborative Innovation Network reveals on how we are at the dawn of a whole new way of working together. ITVidya aims to facilitate innovations, collaborations, actions and transactions amongst our target community of Indian IT Professionals and Technopreneurs, and the global IT community and businesses who want to tap into these talent, Thanks Narain for sharing the document, it has already forwarded my thinking.

Anand Chhatpar, CEO of BrainReactions, shares his story of creating a successful business around ideas and brainstorming to CNBC India.

Click here to view Anand's interview

Barcamp was recently organized in Chennai by Narain,Kiruba Shankar and Vijay Anand, the theme was Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet. Narain gave a useful presentation on What/Where/Why of Web 2.0? and also gave a demo of his innovative design collaboration tool, Tracbac.

I live with a vivid memory of that day when I visited the JXTA.org on April 25 2001 when it was launched with much fanfare as an Open Source project which was an outcome of $10 Mn acquisition of Gene Kan's Infrasearch by Sun. If Bill Joy liked something I am sure there were many who would like it, then! JXTA was one such thing.

While trying to build something over Jini along with my first IT Guru Tarun Bhargava, JXTA seemed very exciting and promising when we thought of the possibilities in a socially, geographically, economically and politically realigning world.

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