Comments on: The Best Enterprise 2.0 Use Cases Haven’t Been Discovered, Yet

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:09:01 +0000

“Water always wins.” Could substitute Twitter, even sounds similar.

By: joel garry

joel garry — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:43:13 +0000

Plumbing instantly makes me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xd3Rx8Pxl8

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:09:01 +0000

“Water always wins.” Could substitute Twitter, even sounds similar.

By: joel garry

joel garry — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:43:13 +0000

Plumbing instantly makes me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xd3Rx8Pxl8

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:40:22 +0000

Glad you liked it and a good point about the community using an app. They need to voice their use cases.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:39:22 +0000

You did mention that. Opening the firehose will be interesting.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:38:23 +0000

Nice post. I skimmed it before, but since you pointed me to it, I read the whole thing.

Data are already plumbing, but within the enterprise, the pipes are closed. Plus, there might not be water in them; you just don't know. This is the right design for security, but increasingly, the need arises to provide data in intelligent ways to more people. It's very difficult to open an inherently closed system, but it's relatively easier to close and open system.

By: sreyadutta

sreyadutta — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:47:25 +0000

Excellent article Jake. I totally agree with you. Today, any application that is proved beneficial to the larger group, becomes beneficial by participation and contribution from the community. It is the duty of the community to communicate their need and that will eventually become a use case.

Thanks for putting these thoughts together!

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:20:38 +0000

wait…the Twitter data HAS become plumbing. (Or did I say that already?)

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:19:44 +0000

As to free your data…I like the analogy that Twitter has become plumbing in this NY Times articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/…

Despite outages and such…there are just so many different applications that are now depending on this data that it would be almost impossible for Twitter to fail.

So make your data plumbing!