Mar
20
Collaboration 2.0, where are we?
Back in 2005 I was really excited about the web2.0 concepts, the web-based APIs, mashups, and all the new publishing tools that was later to be known by 2008 as "social-media". However, back then, it really wasn't the modern facebook-ish "social-media" model that was tingling my neurones; it was rather the emergent nature of these disruptive new tools such as blogs, wikis and web-based productivity apps such as Google Docs or Zoho. My senses would tell me that if these new tools would be embraced for collaborative work, then new buildings of knowledge and new scales of products could be created, because never man-kind had found a way to put more than a small team to work effectively on a single product (single document, single project, etc...).