Tonight Stanford’s VLAB is hosting an event regarding Cloud Computing, a new way to give burgeoning web-based companies a start. Much like the distributed computing idea, made ever popular by SETI@Home and its successor, BOINC, people want to harness the computing power we have out in the world and provide it to those who may [...]

A new feature we have rolling out today is the ability for forecasts to be scheduled as to their release time and suspend time. The IPO (or Initial Public Offering) of a forecast can now be scheduled for a particular date and time, after which it will be available for a market to bet upon. [...]

Panel of E2.0 companies sponsored by Telligent and Small World Solutions Question: Why did you start this? Michael Wilson (Small World): Both parents were deaf and he grew up understanding how much people were reliant on their communities. He wanted to defragment latent communities for corps. Guy formerly at MS: Wanted to create products that [...]

This was a panel chaired by Andrew McAfee, from HBS. The panel included reps from Wachovia, the CIA, Sony Computer Entertainment, Pfizer.  Andrew asked the panel  a number of questions 1. Has E2.0 taken off? General consensus was: not very fast. The management typically are not very web savvy and have a set of tools [...]

A big theme in E2.0 is harnessing the information that your people already have. Every single presenter has, as well as the obvious benefits of User-Generated content, mentioned that locating  subtle, hard to find information is very important. Especially when the community is disparate and not used to working together. Oracle, Wachovia and Pfizer all [...]

The Enterprise 2.0 conference is a happening place: over 1000 delegates, 100 exhibitors, 100 sessions, some of them free. Most valuably, many large companies are describing their experiences with E2.0Amongst them:Oracle, who have developed a Social Networking Engine for its CRM products (mainly to help sales staff make recommendations, manage intelligence in one place, etc), [...]

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