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  Is your social network built enterprise tough?

  You don't have to look further than the uprisings across the Arab world to recognize the power of social tools, and this transformative power applies to business as well. But for an enterprise social network (ESN) to be genuinely useful, it needs to go beyond the "Facebook for enterprise" model.

  By Sriram Chakravarthy, VP, products and engineering, social computing, TIBCO | 07 May, 2013 20:32

  Tags: unified communications, Networking, social networking, internet, Facebook, enterprise social network, Spotify, enterprise social networking, Web 2.0, enterprise collaboration, business social, software, collaboration, social networking security, social media, Internet-based applications and services, business collaboration, enterprise social, applications

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  How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

  By Brandon Butler | 06 May, 2013 11:14

  Tags: unified communications, Configuration / maintenance, internet, Facebook OCP, Facebook, HP, Dell, OCP, Cloud, Web 2.0, software, Open Compute Project, collaboration, social media, Interop, Linux, Internet-based applications and services, open source, applications, Networking, hardware systems, operating systems, cloud computing, Data Center

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  Facebook 'Trusted Contacts' lets you pester friends to recover account access

  Facebook Thursday said it’s making available globally a feature called "Trusted Contacts" that lets users select three to five friends who can help users recover account access such as if they forget their password.

  By Ellen Messmer | 02 May, 2013 18:33

  Tags: unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, applications, Networking, Web 2.0, software, collaboration, Wide Area Network, social media, internet, Facebook, security

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  Is Twitter broken?

  Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

  By Brandon Butler | 01 May, 2013 20:57

  Tags: unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, reddit, LANs & Routers, applications, Networking, Web 2.0, software, twitter, collaboration, internet, social media

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  Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative

  Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency.

  By Tim Greene | 30 April, 2013 18:02

  Tags: Enterasys Networks, unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, applications, Microsoft Project Smartsheet, Networking, enterasys, internet, Smartsheet, Microsoft, Web 2.0, software, collaboration, social media, Project management software Smartsheet, collaboration services Smartsheet

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  Opinion: How do you manage your social networks?

  I recently decided, somewhat randomly, to experiment a bit more with social networking. I was on LinkedIn and at some point the service asked me if it could access my Gmail contact list.

  By Mark Gibbs | 28 January, 2013 15:18

  Tags: unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, applications, Networking, LinkedIn contact management, LinkedIn, social networking, internet, managing LinkedIn contacts, Web 2.0, software, social media management, managing social network contacts, collaboration, social media

• Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy and Internet dominance

  Wikipedia and its users are planning more than 300 celebration events across six continents for the 10th anniversary of the free, online encyclopedia that has become an Internet juggernaut by spreading access to information with a model that lets anyone edit its articles.

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 January, 2011 23:25

  Tags: unified communications, Internet-based applications and services, applications, Networking, Web 2.0, software, collaboration, internet, social media, wikipedia, Google

• Enterprise 2.0 changing the way we work

  Sure, companies have started using Web 2.0 tools, but one man says we've only seen a glimmer of the serious change that they're going to bring to the way we do business.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 March, 2010 05:45

  Tags: enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0

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  No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

  The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.

  By Eric Lai | 02 July, 2009 12:07

  Tags: databases, Web 2.0, mysql, cloud computing

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  Open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as IT budgets shrink

  CPS Energy, the largest municipality-owned gas and electric company in America, needed to get a better grip on its budget and its budgeting process. Since CPS Energy was an enterprise SAP user, more SAP AG software was the obvious and lowest-risk way for CIO Christopher Barron to go.

  By Julia King | 23 June, 2009 08:25

  Tags: amazon.com, Web 2.0, Facebook

Whitepapers about Web 2.0

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  Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck?

  As a result of more and more organisations adopting new technologies and business practices surrounding BPM, SOA, and Web 2.0, fundamental changes have arisen in the way IT and business stakeholders work together. Make this into an opportunity - read on.