Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston


I'm spending this week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Monday started strong with an overview of Enterprise 2.0 concepts and tools by Dion Hinchcliffe. That evening, leading cloud vendors—Amazon, Google, and Salesforce—sat on a stage with potential customers in a lively, in-depth discussion arranged by TechWeb's David Berlind.

Tuesday's sessions were more uneven. One of the key topics of the day turned out to be tagging. Thomas Vander Wal, a social bookmarking consultant and the coiner of the term folksonomy, offered a look at the pros and cons of various approaches to managing tagging on a grand scale. Later in the afternoon, my discussions with software vendors in the demo area of the conference returned to the subject again.

More details—and a few video interviews—in upcoming posts.

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