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Workstreamr

• 05.05.08
  The Anti-Facebook
  Workstreamr

  We recently met with a well-known VC who offered the following observation (I am paraphrasing): At its core, Facebook is pure entertainment. It helps people waste time and feel important – and that’s good. However, we believe that there is an opportunity for a company that does the exact opposite of Facebook. Instead of helping a community of people waste time and be entertained, this service would help them get work done and accomplish productive things. The potential market is enormous. Indeed.
  
  
• 04.07.08
  Work Culture
  Workstreamr

  Over the last few months I have written a number of posts using the term “work culture.” I was using the term without even realizing that it doesn’t really yet exist in modern lexicon. Wikipedia has entries for organizational culture and corporate culture, the later dealing with traditional enterprises and their hierarchical structures. However, I feel that work culture is something very unique from either of the above. Work culture is the environment that empowers an individual(s) to produce and receive. Work culture is not – any longer – corporate. Consider the creative class and the folks operating in the edgeeconomy: ...
  
  
• 04.06.08
  Rethinking the Firm: The Era of Agile
  Tech'nomics, Workstreamr

  Thank you Umair Haque! I have been writing and talking about the fundamental shifts we are seeing in work culture for quite some time. A couple examples are here and here. I even have dedicated a category of this blog to the phenomenon I call “tech’nomics,” or the intersection/impact that technology has on the economy. So it is exciting to see well-known influencers in the space agreeing with Umair and adding to the conversation. It’s especially exciting since we’re building Workstreamr to be a player in this new world. AVC recently stated: What Umair is suggesting is that technology, particularly Internet technology, ...
  
  
• 03.30.08
  Why Email is Dumb
  Workstreamr

    One of the issues Workstreamr is tackling is the notion that ‘email is dumb.’ So why is email dumb? Generally, there is no database attached to email. Even if there is, email is still essentially dumb text sent from one person to another. Email is dumb in the sense that the content of a particular message is subject to the interpretation of the person receiving it. While you know things such as a) who sent the email  b) the date and time it was sent, really the crux of the message is not necessarily clear. People are notoriously poor communicators and ...
  
  
• 03.08.08
  The Office of 2013
  Tech'nomics, Workstreamr

  I’m planning to present at BarCampNYC3 talking about the office of the future. It’s my proposition that the office and work culture will be in a transition by 2013. Overtime, office environments will look almost nothing like the traditional office environments of today. One of the forces driving these changes is the benefit from open knowledge sharing. Institutions, it seems, continue to discover increases in value (ROI) from opening-up closed environments. I foresee this trend eventually seeping into office culture. For example, instead of hiring a jack-of-all-trades who is ‘okay’ at a lot of things, why not take that salary and ...
  
  
• 02.21.08
  It Could Be Called ‘Enterprising 2.0’
  Workstreamr

  Last month the Wall Street Journal compiled a list of seven common activities technology is helping to transform. Notably absent was ‘how we work.’ My last post discussed why I feel the phrase Enterprise 2.0 is not the best one to represent the next generation of enterprise software. I arrive at this conclusion based in the fact that work culture is fundamentally changing. As a result of these changes, the next wave of software innovations cannot simply be ‘additions’ to already existing architectures. Maybe this would be fine if we were in a maturing industry; but we are not. Thus, our ...
  
  
• 02.20.08
  The Political Metaphor That Is Enterprise Software
  Workstreamr

  I have been following the progress of FASTforward 2008 with great interest. Our new project - Workstreamr - is to be a new entrant in what most now refer to as the ‘Enterprise 2.0’ space. Very talented folks such as Andrew McAfee of Harvard University have spent vast amounts of time researching, debating and ultimately defining this industry. Now I must humbly disagree with their vernacular. For many younger people (and I assume older ones too!) enterprise software is a big ugly word. For myself and my fellow millenials, enterprise software provokes nightmares of installation CDs, dedicated servers, bloated Microsoft ...
  
  
• 02.14.08
  Cat Is Out of the Bag: Thinking Workstreamr 24/7
  Workstreamr

  Apologies for the lack of posts over the past 15 days, but internet is somewhat unreliable in India and the Middle East and I have been swamped with issues more pressing than blog posts (I know, I know). After returning from India last night I was greeted by a barrage of unanswered emails, including several concerning a post on /Message. So the cat is out of the bag – Workstreamr is the name of the ‘mystery’ project that Ben, Stowe and I have been working on since last summer. We have spent a tremendous amount of time and energy into ...
  
  

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