Trend: Real-time in the Enterprise – When Does The Serious Money Come In?
Interesting panel with Microsoft (Dan’l Lewin), Yammer, Facebook/Friendfeed (Paul Buchheit), Techcrunch (Mike Arrington), VCs (Ron Conway, Brian Singerman, Andrew Braccia) and some others.
Topics are Real-Time and search (e.g. other dimensions then just keyword matching such as time relevance, social relevance etc.).
I have said this before: To get real-time social collaboration into the Enterprise is a HUUUGE opportunity (at Talential.com we are using Socialcast and love it). To me enterprise has always been the area where the money is. So if you want to start a business now, think about the opportunities in the Enterprise 2.0 business. Morten Lund, one of the founders of Skype, just went bankrupt and is now starting all over: “I’m into Enterprise – all in – to recover fast“. Unsurprisingly, he is putting his efforts and resources in the Enterprise-market.