This is a question that most bloggers post, do you need to provide full feeds? or partial ones?

While there obviously is no “right” answer I strongly believe that there is a great service to the reader when the entire post is visible through the RSS feed. This again depends on what your users want, running a short poll might give you an idea of what they’d like to get.

I use both as RSS aggregator as well as email feeds to collate the information i get from multiple sites. It does tend to get a little irritating when you have to click back to the source site to continue reading the article. I feel it robs the user of the continuity of reading the entire article from where he opened it.

As a reader what do you feel?

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Web 2.0 adoption in the corporate sector has been slow, of that there is no doubt. The reliance on traditional information management systems that are heavily process oriented is tremendous. There is very little incentive ( or so a lot of people think ) towards investing in “newer” applications and services.

However there is a slow shift in that line of thought, i read a rather interesting survey conducted by the Mckinsey group on how Web 2.0 is being adopted in large corporates. The indication being that recently there has been a noticeable increase in corporates willing to invest in these new technologies and more importantly the rewards attained as a result of this leap of faith.

On the whole i think it’s a wait and watch game, the one thing you need to understand is that implementing a Web 2.0 application is considered something of a risk as most “corporates” as most do not have the exposure or understanding to realize the benefit it could garner for them.

I’m currently involved in a large project within the company i work for to rollout a large application that encompasses most Web 2.0 features like Wikis, Blogs, Social networking and such. Something that i personally feel has become long overdue and i can already forsee the huge benefit to the employee within the organization.

A decade or so ago the office was a treasure trove of new technologies, today the world wide web gives you a better variety of tools. What organizations need to realize is that most of their employees depend on these tools and services on a daily basis and the flexibility it provides them only strengthens the argument that there are serious drawbacks to the services they have to use back at the office.

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A Wiki is a collaborative platform for information creation that takes online collaboration to a whole new level. Wikipedia is a classic example of how powerful a Wiki can get.

The form that it takes on Wikipedia is of a very open nature, allowing just about anyone to add, edit and delete content. While conventional thinking does give pause to the approach taken, the underlying thought here is that the constructiveness of users far outweights their destructiveness, and so far this has proved to be true. However there have been a number of controversies  that have sprung up as a result of this, mostly dealing with two opposing views around a subject which after numerous edits and counter edits end up being locked down by moderators.

While this model does seem to prevail in the world wide web Corporations have a much lower level of tolerance for such “complexities”. To implement a wiki within an organization would require a tremendous focus on security controls. This being said there has been a noticeable difference in their willingness to implement certain “Web 2.0″ tools.

There are a number of Wiki tools out there ( Open source and otherwise ). Choosing the right one would depend on the features you are looking for. If security is high on your list of items and your company is already leveraging a CMS like Sharepoint you might be happy to note that in its current release form i.e : MOSS 2007 there exists a Wiki functionality. However this is a Wiki in its most basic form and one that i would not recommend if you are pursuing a more advanced solution. Though it does address your requirements of hacking and virus protection considering it comes under the umbrella of a Content Management Solution.

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In a brilliant move Yahoo has decided to Partner with CNBC by broadcasting content through their Yahoo Finance site, which with its large distribution base would allow CNBC to increase its viewership.

The main focus of this agreement is to allow the streaming of CNBC videos through the Yahoo site.

Although CNBC has a very solid footprint in the television space its efforts to replicate the same on the internet have not been nearly as successful. Hence the move to partner with Yahoo. This allows them to tap into over 12 million users every month through this new medium.

Several dozen of CNBC.com’s 100 to 150 daily videos will appear on Yahoo’s site. The arrangement will also provide Yahoo with content for its 21 international financial sites.

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For all you network administrators out there who feel that the Web 2.0 revolution has left you in the Jurassic age, say hello to Paglo.

Paglo is a search engine for your network. Its a great way of knowing exactly how many different types of softwares are installed, where they are and much, much more.

The Crawler, Search Index, and UI form the foundation for this application. As an administrator all you need to to is set Paglo up, and let the crawler loose. It relays all sorts of information about devices connected to the network ( this includes blackberry’s ). Once done, the information is loaded into the secure index and made available through a web GUI to administrators regardless of where they are located.

Another nifty feature is that the API is highly customizable, allowing administrators the option to create complex query’s.

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For those of you curious, this is a list of the acquisitions made by Google over the past few years. If you take a closer look the trend seems of acquisitions seems to be growing at a rather rapid rate each year. I found this information on Wikipedia, and thought it might make for an interesting read.

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The Google App suite has, till date, not received very much of a positive response from market analyst. The main concern being a lack of security for the application.

Enter Postini, a company Google acquired in July of this year for around $625 million dollars. The service they provide is targeted at companies that maintain their own email servers.

Postini Email Security ensures the email is free from threats and junk mail. It blocks spam, viruses, phishing, and email threats, and provides sophisticated message management and policy enforcement. In addition, policy compliance is assured via Postini’s automated archiving, which provides a Google-like interface for email discovery and retrieval.

The folks at Postini have incorporated the following features  into the new App suite, content policy management, message archiving tools and tighter e-mail security. This improved software now inspects incoming and outgoing mail and imposes policies on the fly.

On the whole this seems to be a very good move as Google has leveraged the capabilities of the new company with a product it already has a lot invested in.

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Rumors are flying fast and furiously over the fact that Google might be acquiring Sprint. Now while this might seem a little ludicrous to some of you out there you mustn’t forget the company’s appetite for growth, not to mention its interest in exploring new territory.

I came across this rather interesting article written by Rich Tehrani,

“Recent news that Sprint is not going to work with Clearwire to build out a WiMAX network only added to the rumors I have been hearing about Google acquiring Sprint Nextel. On the surface it seems like this would be a bad move for Google but in reality the world’s leading search engine has become so much more than just a website to go to when you want to find a trinket of information… The company now needs a wireless network to allow it to grow in the mobile search and related spaces such as watching YouTube videos on the subway.

Let’s look at Google from a philosophical level. The company has built almost everything from scratch in its past and present. Computers, operating system, web server software and more. Google likes to have complete control. In a way this is not unlike Apple.”

And we know for a fact that Google is looking at launching its own mobile phone OS very shortly, so this definitely seems like a plausible strategy ( god knows they have the resources to back this bid ).

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