I was reviewing a number of our previous projects (some more successful than others) and was reminded of a post from Joshua Porter titled, "Seven Reasons Why Web Apps Fail." Joshua wrote the post almost a year ago and I thought it was worth repeating the reasons. Check out the full post here.
- Too focused on social instead of personal
- Try to do too much, or solve too many problems
- Working hard to make someone other than the user happy
- They sell it the wrong way (i.e. focused on Ajax, tags, web2.0, soa)
- Not built to last, exit strategy is too obvious
- They show too much of what’s going on, and get gamed
- Their underlying business strategy does not improve people’s lives
Posted by admin | April 21, 2007 - 4:41pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: joshuaporter
Our team is working more and more with companies seeking to launch wikis in their businesses (internal and external wikis). This summer we spent some time with the Socialtext guys in our effort to recommend and support the best products available to our cliens. Joshua Porter pointed out that Apple might be a direction our team needed to explore. Boy, was he dead on!
Apple is now making push into social tools such as wikis. With their new wiki server as described by Apple:
“Leopard Server includes a Wiki Server to make it easy for teams to create and distribute information through their own shared Intranet website. For the first time, all members of a workgroup can easily create or edit content right from their browser. With a few clicks, or by dragging and dropping, they can upload files and images, track changes, assign keywords, hyper-link pages, view and contribute to shared calendars and blogs, and search for content on the group Intranet.�
Of course the wiki server is only one great social tool included in Leopard. Others include iCal calendar sharing (say goodbye to Exchange?), iChat screen sharing and social iTunes. Oh, and of course Apple is going to allow “teams” to turn on these features. Apple explaines:
“Leopard Server includes a Wiki Server to make it easy for teams to create and distribute information through their own shared Intranet website. For the first time, all members of a workgroup can easily create or edit content right from their browser. With a few clicks, or by dragging and dropping, they can upload files and images, track changes, assign keywords, hyper-link pages, view and contribute to shared calendars and blogs, and search for content on the group Intranet.�
Posted by amuse | August 15, 2006 - 6:25am | 2 Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: apple, joshuaporter, Social Media, socialtools, wiki
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