Based on a just released study of familiarity and adoption among Inc. magazine’s 500 list of America fastest-growing companies, social me...

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I have a post on l’affaire Spocko over at the FastForward Blog today.  Nathan Gilliatt has an even better follow up here. ...

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They’re breaking out the champagne at Pluck HQ in Austin this morning.  The big news is that old media giant Reuters has acquired a $...

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It is a truth held to be self-evident among IT professionals:  geeks are from Krypton, suits  are from Uranus.  The antipathy between members of...

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For those of you keeping score at home, here’s a recap of this week’s exciting action in the battle of the enterprise wikis.  On...

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Assume for a moment that you are the CEO of cool little startup in a corner of the Web 2.0 market that is hotting up quickly (wikis).  On...

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Tim O’Reilly, the tech media titan who gave Web 2.0 its name and defined many of its characteristics in a seminal paper called What is We...

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It’s semi-official.  Blogs have now joined hula hoops, Pro-Keds and lava lamps in the attic of abandoned obsessions.  When fast food compani...

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The wiki world is going a bit wacky over Google’s acquisition of JotSpot with rivals Socialtext and Atlassian both offering “migrati...

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The big news this morning is that Google has entered the wiki/collaboration space by acquiring JotSpot, the do-it-yourself wiki company founded by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kr...

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