Where is the Business Value in Enterprise 2.0?
Over the past few weeks some of regulars have done a great job of focusing in on how Enterprise 2.0 differs from Web 2.0 and why those differences ma...

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cyn-in Goes Live
cyn-in, a web based service that lets enterprise workers easily build, share, manage and publish documents, media and files within a secure hosted online environmen...

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Social Media, Trust and Patricia Dunn
Show me a CEO who truly believes that mobs are smart and crowds are wise and I’ll show you a nine-toed wombat.  As the continuing sordi...

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Has Microsoft Become the Panasonic of American Business?
First an imitation iPod, then an imitation Google, now an imitation YouTube.  With today’s  announcement of Soapbox on MSN Video, a site that “makes it easy for people to express themselves by uploading, discov...

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Who Owns the Web?
Can the cowboys and the farmers really be friends?  It’s an old question that cuts to the heart of the current ideological struggle be...

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Can Google Save the Planet? (And Make a Profit)
Google founders Sergey Binn and Larry Page may behave like tree-hanging simians when the subject is decking out the company superjet but th...

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What Would Dave or Bill Do?
One of the most memorable days of my life was a long afternoon in the early spring of 1982 spent in the company of Bill Hewlett and David Pa...

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Is Live Search Dead on Arrival?
You know a company is having dark thoughts about its own mortality when it starts sticking the word “Live” in front of all its ne...

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Amazon Makes Preemptive Strike on Apple
Amazon.com made a preemptive strike on Apple today by unveiling Amazon Unbox, a new service for selling downloadable movies and TV shows onl...

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Sign-In to Cyn-In
You should never judge a book by its cover or buy a pig in a poke or gather moss with a rolling stone or any of the other stupid things we all say, but I’v...

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