A software TESARAC

BLOGS IN BUSINESS: THE WEBLOG AS FILING CABINET [ reviewed ]
"I also belong to two consortia of knowledge management (KM) leaders of their respective companies. We have all struggled with ways to capture tacit knowledge (mostly 'know-how') as effectively as we capture explicit knowledge (mostly 'know-what'). "

A WEBLOG-BASED CONTENT ARCHITECTURE FOR BUSINESS [ reviewed ]
"The key advantage of providing such a capability is vastly increased access to, and sharing of, a company's knowledge. This post outlines a content architecture that could enable this to occur."

BLOGS IN BUSINESS (PART 3): FINDING THE RIGHT NICHE
"Even businesses with well-established knowledge management systems can find room for weblogs, and derive great benefits from integrating them into their existing KM architecture.

Supporting KM with Web Logs
"But web logging can also be used to support knowledge management (KM)—the effort within an organization to share knowledge and help the organization achieve its mission."

Hosted service offers ease-of-use for intranets, extranets, or portals
"But I especially liked the unusual ability to add live chat to workspaces, the contents of which are also captured, as well as the integrated blogging features."

Instant Messages in Knowledge-Making: Some Possibilities
"I spin tales about the utility of Instant Messenger's in Knowledge-Making/Research (KMR) endeavors. They, too, like wki's, weblogs, email, listserves and telephones seem to have a "proper" place in the process. Naturally there are misuses of Instant Messengers too. For example, techno-love struck IM chatters will get as little research accomplished as the compulsive phone networker."

Workers of the World—Collaborate
"When a market-ing firm named Informative created an online site where its 50 employees—most of them scattered among Palo Alto, New York City, and London—could exchange information, it was a disaster. The site was meant to be a place where salespeople could share leads and get the latest information about customers. But with only two of Informative's time-strapped IT professionals overseeing maintenance, the site quickly grew stale and irrelevant. In fact, the company's employees eventually abandoned it altogether. "There were documents on there that were literally three, four, five years old," recalls Alan Flohr, Informative's vice president of sales. That was two years ago."

Situated Software
"Part of the future I believe I'm seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I'm calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I'll call the Web School (the paradigm I learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues."

SocialText Enterprise Software
"Offers an Enterprise Wiki as a hosted service or installed on a hardware appliance."

Kwiki is perhaps the simplest to install, most modular, and easiest to extend Wiki.

Informative is the first patented technology and services company that enables brands and brand marketers to increase revenues and profitability by marketing with, not to, their customers through conversation.

Collaborative sites enable sharing of ideas, workload
"There is a public Web site where people can find a Web log written by some prominent members of the government information technology community. Visitors can view a list of officials in the CIO Council's Communities of Practice and read ongoing revisions to a major government document, the data reference model. Members of the public also are contributing to the discussions"

Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search
"Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops and maintains free open content for the public, and Yahoo! Search, a leading global search engine, today announced that Yahoo! Search will dedicate hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based encyclopedia written and edited by people from around the world."

Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia and Yahoo!
"Our growth in web traffic continues to be staggering, doubling every few months. "

Xhtml Friends Network
"XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks."

Structured Blogging
"Structured blogging is about making a movie review look different from a calendar entry. On the surface, it’s as simple as that - formatting blog entries around their content. "

PubSub
"PubSub is a matching service that instantly notifies you when new content is created that matches your subscription. Using a proprietary Matching Engine, PubSub is able to read millions of data sources on your behalf and notify you instantly whenever a match is made."

A three hour DVD contains the untold history of Fairchild Semiconductor from those who were there at the time, including Gordon Moore, Jerry Sanders and Gil Amelio.

Link : The Fairchild Chronicles

Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale writes...

"In this paper I explain that while free software is highly visible, it is in fact only one example of a much broader social-economic phenomenon. I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands. "

http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf

Yesterday i was lucky enough to meet with the VP of one of the biggest security firms in the world, as he just happens to live in Scotland (or at least has a base here).

He was amongst the first of what i hope will be many discussions with really clever, experienced people who can ask me all the difficult questions. I did show though - at points i felt fully in control - at other points i felt myself asking the same questions he was. I do have answers for most of them... the question is really whether those answers work for the people who run businesses (and how will buy TESARAC!).

I discussed my ideas on TESARAC and how we will operate using a subscription model - primarly anyway, although i suspect custom installs for corporates.

He discussed in depth the difficulty i may have in convincing companies to subscribe and hence have some quite important data stored remotely. I guess as you scale up adn talk with large enterprise this becomes more difficult. However, in order to break through in this world you gotta think different. If you scale out (ie. from enterprises to smaller companies), ths idea is that if you can prove you are secure enough then they will come to you. Not only that, but is the long tail is right, there may well be even more customers there anyway!

To do this consider how many companies trust the ISP to manage their email, rather than manage their own mail servers and so on. So there is some trust out there.

At TESARAC we are thinking about what models will work for each company. I like long tail because it works for entrepreneurs - question is, does it make money?

Hello World!

And so the TESARAC begins....

steven