Listen to the experts talk about Web 2.0

Experts discussing the new internet technologies and changing the ways people organise and conduct their businesses.

Caught in the Web
Are you sick of wrestling with recalcitrant pieces of software installed on your computer?
In Business this week looks at whether it makes sense to use programmes on the internet instead.
The idea is that your keyboard and your mouse and an Internet connection are all you need to turn on the services you need like tap water. Much of the software is free or cheap.
Software delivered over the Internet is a business model busy eating away at the familiar brand names we all know and (maybe) love.


Wide world of wikis
The Economist
Apr 21, ’06, 07:00 PM
This interview was hosted by Brendan Greeley, the blogger-in-chief for the US public radio program Open Source, and the author of The Economist’s survey on new media, Andreas Kluth.

The Long Tail: the demand for everything
The Economist
Apr 21, ’06, 07:00 PM
This interview was hosted by Brendan Greeley, the blogger-in-chief for the US public radio program Open Source, and the author of The Economist’s survey on new media, Andreas Kluth.

Blogs as leading indicators
The Economist
Apr 21, ’06, 07:00 PM
This interview was hosted by Brendan Greeley, the blogger-in-chief for the US public radio program Open Source , and the author of The Economist’s survey on new media, Andreas Kluth.

Thu, 22 February 2007
HBR Idea Cast? 31: What Is Wikinomics?
What Is Wikinomics? This week, Idea Cast? producer Steve Singer talks with Don Tapscott, co-author, with Anthony D. Williams, of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. In its latest incarnation, Tapscott says, the World Wide Web has become a communal experience–collaborators from anywhere and any walk of life now have the ability to solve problems and produce results through the use of collective wisdom. Although some business leaders may find the prospect of this kind of openness rather frightening, Tapscott believes that leveraging the new wave of community is the way of the future.

October 2007

This week’s BBC Global Business steps into the intriguing world of “Wikinomics”. It’s all centred on the huge new possibilities of collaboration across time and space brought about the internet. The best known example of Wikinomics is, of course, the Wikipedia. The freely available internet encyclopaedia created by thousands of different writers has eight million articles in 250 languages, which anyone can add to or edit. But now here is Wikinomics: the art of collaboration using the internet in all sorts of businesses and organisations. Peter Day talks to the Canadian management consultant, Don Tapscott who has just authored a book called “Wikinomics.”