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Sponsor Announcement: Defrag

By Admin / October 5, 2008 12:42 PM

RWW is the Premiere Media Sponsor for the Defrag Conference, happening 3-4 November in Denver Colorado. You can register for Defrag here. Entering the code "rww1" will get RWW readers $200 off of the early bird price.

Highlights from Defrag this year will include a discussion about Strategic Intuition, a presentation from Esther Dyson called 'The Quantification of Everything', a discussion about whether collaboration is changing how we consume and interact with analysis, and much more.

Sponsor Announcement: Defrag

By Admin / September 21, 2008 6:25 PM

Sponsor Announcement: Defrag

By Admin / September 9, 2008 4:30 PM

RWW is the Premiere Media Sponsor for the Defrag Conference, happening 3-4 November in Denver Colorado. Event organizer Eric Norlin has published a list of things that will be happening on Day 1. They include a discussion about Strategic Intuition; an 'Around the Horn' session led by with Paul Kedrosky; 'The Quantification of Everything' from Esther Dyson; "flow" apps; Knowledge Networking and Ambient Intimacy; a discussion about whether collaboration is changing how we consume and interact with analysis; Appfrica: the growth of information overload in Africa; Social Computing and the Enterprise.

How Web Technology is Boosting Productivity in Organizations

By Richard MacManus / August 14, 2008 2:00 PM

ReadWriteWeb is a partner with Defrag, a conference about web innovation. Defrag's Eric Norlin has lately been blogging about enterprises and organizations starting to move beyond mere 'cost containment' (although that's still a big driver) and into using web technologies to boost productivity. Eric points out that "taming the data" is one of the challenges of this shift, because there is so much information online which workers need to process. And it's not just taming the data, but gleaning 'intelligence' from it. He mentions a number of buzzwords: enterprise 2.0, semantic web, business intelligence. Eric's main point is that this space is wide open for innovation - going beyond Webex, social networks and so on.

Part of the problem in the enterprise/business market is the predominance of big, bulky software from large IT vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Oracle. Although most of those companies are slowly evolving into offering web-based software (Cisco owns Webex for example), it tends to be slow progress from all the bigcos except for Google. But nowadays we're seeing startups making a significant impact in the enterprise. There are two main ways this is happening...

Defrag: Fixing Foundational Information Channels

By Richard MacManus / July 31, 2008 5:30 AM

One of the conferences we're supporting this year is Defrag. The topics that Defrag explores are very close to our hearts - OpenSocial, Attention, Next-Level Discovery, The Implicit Web, and more. One of this year's Defrag sessions that caught my attention is entitled: Fixing Foundational Information Channels -- Email, Calendars, RSS, etc.

Defrag: The Implicit Web and More

By Richard MacManus / July 15, 2008 12:50 AM

There are a lot of tech conferences these days and we at ReadWriteWeb get many emails asking us to promote them. We've happily done so in the past, but there are now too many events to keep up with. So this year we've decided to partner with a couple of conferences in particular: Defrag and DEMOfall 08. Defrag is a conference that a few of our writers attended last year, and came away impressed by. With topics such as OpenSocial, Attention, Next-Level Discovery, The Implicit Web, and more, we think this event is right in the sweetspot.