Friday 5 June 2009

Intranets vs. Internet

A perennial question is how to get social software running successfully for an enterprise?

Turning that on it's head, is the answer is why does it work on the Internet?

Personally, I would say that "size matters but failure doesn't". The mass of people available will mean that there will always be interesting content being generated, and people make new and innovative contributions.

Coupled with that is "why doesn't the intranet search engine return anything useful?" Again, size matters. Google, bing, AskJeeves all index billions of webpages; an enterprise would have a few million?

IBM seem to be going in the right direction. Have an internal sharing system (dogear), but is there a way of piggybacking of external sources of tags?

Hmm.

Now that is interesting

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