Gartner is showing their top 10 disruptive technologies for 2008 right now here in Barcelona, and there’s some great stuff in here for us. I’m going to stick with the top 5 as we have plenty to think about there, and frankly the bottom 5 are a bit less clear so there’s not as much […]

I will be in Spain next week at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, representin’ Trampoline. There are some cool sounding sessions, and evidently there is also a concurrent Gartner event (why oh why do people run two events at once in the same place? it’s hard enough with 5+ tracks in one event!) for us plucky […]

In which a sticker not only ignites the latent inner arts critic of your correspondent. It arouses her rampant, explicit feminist.
One of the four or five women I spoke to on the Web 2.0 Expo floor declined a “No man is an island” sticker with the rebuttal “I’m a woman.” I was dumbstruck, a rare […]

I’ve seen a few comments on blogs about the intersection of social networking and business which questions the idea that an enterprise is a social network at all. Some have simply made the assertion that social networks and businesses are totally different - eg on the SONAR tech-crunch posting, Phil Dewey commented: “Does “enterprise social network” […]

Rarely is one presented with a delicious opportunity to delve into the connections between stickers produced last week, a metaphysical poet from the early 17th Century and the concerns of enterprise social computing. Trampoline is the only workplace on earth I can imagine that occurring. An unhealthy obsession with correct spelling aside, this is the […]

It’s super important that we think about how Trampoline should act in a flat or recessionary economy.

The world’s first management tool dealing with organisational intelligence

So, the Facebook hype dust has settled and what we’re left with is a solid, social networking platform. I check my feed several times a day. But since Facebook added per-feed-item preferences I’ve started to notice exactly what it is I’m interested in hearing about my friends… and it’s Twitter.

Predictions for the year ahead.

By 2015 large corporates will be moving en masse to a decentralized client computing environment based on laptops (or their kin) owned by users with time and usage leased back by their corporate masters. This will mark the era of the loosely-coupled enterprise (LCE).