Enterprise 2.0 Application Architecture

The above represents a conceptual architecture for a Enterprise 2.0 collaboration application.

Loose Integration - This allows reuse of components and allows selective hosted SaaS offering to the public. (Why pay for the whole package when I only need a small part of it ) . i.e Basecamp does this with their chat component.
For the Enterprise, [...]

SaaS and The Enterprise

The term SaaS (Software as a Service) is very well known today in the Web 2.0 cloud. It represents a loosely coupled bunch of software services hosted online that are accessible by customers on a paid-per-user/subscription basis. If extended further, it can also be used in a non-paying/subscription context where customers get unlimited usage of [...]

Facebook + External Apps

Do you use Facebook ? Do you have a Facebook account? I can’t believe you are not on Facebook!!! That’s probably what you will hear when Facebook evangelists approaches you, and they are in the tens of millions. You can find them everywhere, from college kids all the way to mature-age users.
Facebook, in all its [...]