I changed the title

From SAP to Enterprise Web 2.0 (and into online Music Business)
I just changed the topic a bit due to the thing that i am doing nothing with opensource or virtual worlds at the moment and much more with Web 2.0 and the online music market and new online business models

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Digital Natives and 40% growth

Fast Forward blog summed up a lot of articles and reports about digital natives and their influence in future companies.
Prediction in th epost” their influx will cause 40+ % annual growth in the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities “
http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/22/digital-natives-making-enterprise-20-and-hamels-the-future-of-management-more-real/

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Internet economics and business models for the future

Techdirt
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071121/083858.shtml
and J. Lanier
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/opinion/20lanier.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
 from New York Times talk about internet strategy and how to create revenue in the web.
There is a trade off between generating revenues with free content and ads  on the one side, and on the other side micropayment which are on the radar since years but are still not established.
In my opinion micropayments are not [...]

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After Tim O’reilly talked on network effects..here are some good articles on this topic

good book from Shapiro and Varian
Information Rules. A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
http://www.amazon.de/Information-Rules-Strategic-Network-Economy/dp/087584863X
Scientific article from Shapiro and Varian
http://www.inforules.com/models/m-net.pdf.pdf
Nice overview
http://oz.stern.nyu.edu/io/network.html
Book from shy Oz: The Economics of Network Industries
http://www.ozshy.com/
16 pages pdf on that
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/00952/sample/9780521800952ws.pdf
Carl Shapiro :
COMPETITION POLICY IN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/comppolicy.pdf

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New cool web 2.0 money management

It is the Techcrunch something winner and it is really the best idea I saw in the last month. After hundreds of Google Earth Mashups a cool idea
http://mint.com/

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Cool visualisation of the INTERNET

source Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_map_1024.jpg
click for the BIG picture
explaination from wikipedia
Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Lines are [...]

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Innovation from Acquisitions? Google and Microsoft – an Overview

To answer the question if Google is more innovative  than Microsoft you should  include their acquisititions argumentation…
Also you should consider Google also bought Youtube, partners with MySpace and in future their own VC company Sequoia definitly will incubate more innovative companies ( http://www.sequoiacap.com/ )
For example IPTV Joost you could include in Youtube to get Google on also TV. But there are [...]

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Google Gears Offline Web Applications are out now!

Adding the keystone to their future web strategy!
It is offline and open source and a major step to the final product (this is beta, like all Web 2.0stuff) 
 check it out at: http://gears.google.com/
..as a lot top blogs posted today.
from: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/gears-puts-google-in-the-drivers-seat/2007/05/31/1180205350391.html
Gears puts Google in the driver’s seat
The Google Gears plugin download page.

Hutcheon
May 31, 2007 – 9:00AM
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