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By Matt Goddard on 11/5/2007 8:34 AM

I recenly contributed an article to Web 2.0 Journal about email, collaboration, and how Web-based tools are an alternative to familiar communication tools like email.

When several authors need to cooperate on a document shared through e-mail, team members must wait for the document to become available before they work on their portion. These versioning issues can be avoided with another Web 2.0 tool called the wiki.

One of the ideas that we wanted to include but didn't because of deadlines was that a new wave of knowledge worker is entering the workforce that uses Web-based tools to communicate with their friends and arrange meetups.  In essence, its how this group collaborates.

This presents a real challenge for firms that want to attract top talent from this wave.  If firms don't hav ... Read More »

By Chris Chodnicki on 11/1/2007 4:17 PM

Because open-source technology is freely distributed with limited or no intellectual property restrictions, it promotes progress through the contributions of collaborative users. When we think of open source, we might think of things like the operating system LINUX, the programming language PERL, the browser Firefox, or the database mySQL. The reality is that the open source movement extends to collaborative, user-generated content, like YouTube, MySpace, and Flickr, where the very substance of the site relies on community contribution. Open-source has grown beyond the software realm to become a cultural phenomenon for multi-generational segment of our society that I call the Open-Source Generation or Generation-O. Read More »