Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox add-on that lets you change the appearance and functionality of almost any page on the web. Most people don't know how to write Javascript, though, so we end up using the Greasemonkey scripts developed by other people who do. There are lots and lots of scripts that have been written and they are fun, useful and easy to run.

It's been downloaded nine million times, but we believe many people still haven't heard of or taken the time to learn how to use Greasemonkey. We think they are really missing out, so we recorded a 4 minute screencast showing you how to use the program and some things we like to do with it. We hope readers will add comments with some of your favorite Greasemonkey scripts for people to check out as well.

What Is Greasemonkey?

Greasemonkey is a Firefox plug-in that allows you to insert Javascript into the local display of web pages in your browser. Nothing changes for anyone else, but images, links or text can be added or hidden automatically when you visit a web page that a script has been written for. Developers have written these little scripts to customize or improve the way different web sites are experienced. It's a powerful, lightweight platform that we think you'll really enjoy using.

For nontechnical users, "script" may be an intimidating word, but we think of it as a plug-in for the plug-in. The user experience is that simple.

How do I Use It?

Below you'll find a four minute screencast walking you through the proccess of setting up Greasemonkey and running some of our favorite scripts. Links and text are below the video.

Thanks to Screencast.com for hosting the video above.

Install the Greasemonkey Firefox plug-in.

Find scripts to install. Most are at Userscripts.org but the ones we reference in the video above are:
AutoPagerize
Better GMail 2
FriendFeed User Profiles
FriendFeed Better Recommended
Greased Lightbox

There's a whole room in FriendFeed dedicated to sharing and discussing new Greasemonkey scripts.

We wrote about Greasemonkey Scripts for the Social Media Addict in May, but the options available grow fast and furious.

Questions? Suggestions?

If there's anything unclear about this, let us know and we or our readers will respond in questions. Likewise, if there are Greasemonkey scripts you think readers here should be sure to see - let us know what they are.

The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, is set to begin shortly at 3.30pm PST (6.30pm EST). This week's topic is online music and we have 3 very special guests on the show to discuss this: Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem; Lucas Gonze, whose startup Webjay was acquired by Yahoo in January 2006; and Rob Williams, Senior Vice President of Music Software at RealNetworks. The show is hosted by Sean Ammirati and also features myself and Marshall Kirkpatrick. We encourage you to listen to the show live and ask questions via the chat in TalkShoe (our hosts). The podcast widget is below...

We're expecting to cover these topics: how the online music scene has changed over the past year and how it continues to evolve; the killer feature set for online music; mobile Web music; business models; and more. Here is the podcast widget, which will be available as soon as the show starts at 3.30pm PST.

To listen in and participate in RWW Live today, click here or tune into the widget above. Select Episode 6 (note: currently Talkshoe is experiencing technical issues, we hope episode 6 will be available soon.)

Don't forget also to vote in our current poll: What are your favorite online music streaming services?

What are your favorite online music streaming services? (multi-choice)
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Mixi, the giant Japanese social network, announced last week that it is now acting as an OpenID provider. The implementation is particularly sophisticated, Six Apart's David Recordon says they are the first major provider to support the exchange of user profile data via OpenID. The service is also providing a mechanism for users of 3rd party sites to limit access to content elsewhere to visitors who are their friends on Mixi.

All of it begs the question - where's Facebook with OpenID and why do we need the proprietary framework of Facebook Connect when Mixi is doing many of the same things with open standards?

About Mixi

Mixi is four years old, has a strong mobile component, lots of privacy and is available only in Japanese. Job hunting is big on the site. It is experimenting with a Twitter-like system for commenting and other communication. Google Maps Japan includes a button on search results pages to embed maps on Mixi profiles.

It's by far the biggest social network in Japan. TechCrunch ran a good in-depth profile of the site last month and AsiaJin covers Mixi regularly.

Open Profiles

The user info that is being passed along with Mixi OpenID includes full user display names and profile URLs. From profile URLs all kinds of user attributes can be discovered and programmed against by 3rd party developers. That's exciting stuff. Attributes of authenticated users (using the Simple Registration Extension) plus links to their friends profiles makes a pile of information that developers should be able to do interesting things with, off site and on Mixi.

Along with OpenID, Mixi announced the availability of a developer platform. We're not able to evaluate that platform as the entire site is in Japanese and requires account log-in.

The moral of the story, though, is that another major social network now supports OpenID and is pushing the envelope with the features included. They aren't acting as a relying party yet, allowing users to login with OpenID from other networks, but the functionality of Mixi user profiles has now increased dramatically thanks to open standards.

Since Mixi is only in Japanese, we presume that Facebook won't feel a lot of pressure directly. We can't help but wonder, though, how long the proprietary business interests inside Facebook will be able to hold out against the standards loving developers we know are inside the company and who would love to do something like what Mixi is doing.

Just in time for the first day of the Democratic Convention in the U.S., Kevin Rose today announced a new feature on Digg: Digg Dialogg. The idea here is to allow the Digg community to submit questions that will then later be posed during interviews with "thought leaders and tastemakers." The first person to be interviewed this way is going to be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The interview will be streamed live online on Wednesday the 27th.

Digg + CNN

Digg is partnering with CNN's iReport on this. Diggers will be able to either submit their questions in writing through the Dialogg page or they can upload a video to iReport. According to Digg, they will ask the top rated questions, but given the often rowdy nature of Digg, it will be interesting to see if the questions will be censored in any way and how the Digg users would react if that happened.

As Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced last week, Digg will have a substantial presence at the Democratic and the Republican conventions. Giving Digg's users at least some influence over the reporting from there falls right in place with Digg's overall style.

Not New - But Still a Good Thing

Overall, there is, of course, little that is new about this style of doing interviews, which is quite similar to the YouTube debates. Even Slashdot, Digg's virtual grandfather, often uses it to decide on interview question. At the same time though, anything to get young people interested in politics is a good thing in our opinion and Digg definitely has the ability to reach a lot of folks who would otherwise not be interested in the political process. Also, given that Digg, at its core, is still a technology site, its users are likely to ask a lot of tech oriented questions that a lot of the politicians probably never thought about much.

Looking at the top rated questions so far, net neutrality is ranking high above legalizing marijuana and repealing the Patriot Act.

Just a few days ago, we wrote about OpenClip - an open framework for implementing copy and paste on the iPhone. Developer Zac White had found a loophole that allowed for the creation of a shared clipboard, as long as all applications followed the same guidelines. Today, however, Zac announced that the next generation of the iPhone firmware (2.1) will close this loophole. OpenClip will still work within a single application, but sharing between applications is now impossible.

We were quite happy to see that an enterprising developer had found a way to implement copy and paste even before Apple had released it. There is, of course, a good chance that Apple itself will finally implement this very basic functionality in the next firmware update, so OpenClip itself wouldn't be that useful anymore anyway.

On the other hand, as Zac points out, getting some of this functionality into applications now would definitely help putting some pressure on Apple to release this functionality quickly. After all, there are a good number of applications that just aren't very useful without being able to copy and paste (blog clients, text editors, email clients, etc.).

Zac also notes that he doesn't think that Apple is trying to squash OpenClip on purpose, but it does seem as if Apple is creating a bit of a moving target for developers. Given Apple's penchant for secrecy, every developer who is trying to write an application that gets relatively deep into the OS has to fear that Apple might just close off some necessary functionality without warning.

Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that's due to user reticence: writing a document online and sharing it with others (via Google Docs, Office Live, Zoho, or whatever you use) is one thing. Entering sensitive financial information into your browser is harder to adjust to.

There are also technical complications when using online accounting software. Different countries have different tax laws, dealing with multiple currencies is tricky, your software should be compatible with your accountant's, and so on. We at RWW have had particular issues with multi-currency, as we'll explain below.

So what is the state of online accounting software? In this post we'll tell you about our awkward experiences trying out different packages. But we want to hear about your own experiences with online accounting software, because there is still much to learn about this market.

The Big Guns: Slow, Except Intuit

The existing market leaders in accounting software for SMB and personal use are desktop software vendors such as Intuit (with Quicken), MYOB and QuickBooks. Relatively few of these have made solid moves towards web-based software.

One that has made moves to cover the threat of online software, is Intuit - which released its Quicken Online package in January this year. Intuit is competing fiercely on price, with a 60-day free trial and then from as little as $2.99 per month. It differentiates itself from startup competitors by either offering lower subscription cost or being advertising-free.

It's hard to see Intuit not gaining majority market share of online accounting, given its resources and market leverage in traditional accounting software. Allen Stern of CenterNetworks had similar sentiments back in January.

A quick note about Google and Microsoft. We wrote a post end of last year called Online Accounting: The Next Killer App For Google Apps. 9 months later, still no sign of an online accounting app from Mountain View. As for Redmond, it too has seemingly little interest in this market.

Business Accounting: New Kids on the Block

Startups such as Freshbooks, Xero and Zoho are directly competing with the likes of Quicken, on purely accounting features - invoicing, payroll, expense tracking, etc. We have tested out several of these products and they all have impressive 'web 2.0' type designs, which make inputting data a pleasure (almost).

In this post we'll focus on Freshbooks. It offers online invoicing, time tracking and expense tracking. It has a subscription business model similar to Basecamp (from $14 p/mth onwards) and claims to have over 400,000 users. In our tests it was easy to use and had a lot of nifty features, such as getting a view of your outstanding invoices at a glance. It also has integration with Basecamp (our preferred project management service here at RWW) and offers an API. Freshbooks has an active forum and a browse through its forum showed a very helpful staff.

Another neat feature, which we pointed out in an earlier post today called Four Ad-Free Ways that Mined Data Can Make Money, is that Freshbooks offers benchmark data by industry to its users - e.g. compared to other graphic designers, maybe you're charging less and getting your invoices filled slower than most.

The only real downside we found was an inability to handle more than one currency per account. This is a major problem, but it's one that almost every online accounting service shares. Even the desktop accounting software we've been testing recently failed when it came to multiple currencies (and/or usability of that feature).

Still, Freshbooks is a breath of fresh air to online accounting, if you'll pardon the pun. We really want to be able to use it, so let's hope multi-currency support isn't too far away. Freshbooks has a number of supporters among friends of RWW, judging by the feedback we got via Twitter. Adam Metz proclaimed: "If you want to get paid on time, stay Fresh(books)". steaprok quoth: "Freshbooks is great, have used them for sometime, no complaints at all".

Other similar services

Another service worth mentioning here is Xero, a New Zealand based app that has actually done an IPO - on the local NZ sharemarket. In our tests a few months ago it had many useful features, similar to Freshbooks. However it is currently only available in New Zealand and it too can't handle multiple currencies. Like Freshbooks, Xero promises support for this feature by end of the year.

Kiwi friends of RWW liked Xero. Sigurd Magnusson of CMS SilverStripe told us that his company uses "Xero, except are forced to use MYOB to deal with U.S. Dollars (e.g.our involvement with demconvention.com)". Ben Young said that "I use Xero. Simply the best. Streamlines that part of the business for me whilst we are growing. Not location dependent...very handy".

Also check out Zoho Invoice (which claims to support multiple currencies) and Cashboard, two relatively recent entrants to this space.

Personal Money Management Products

Over the past couple of years we've seen a number of impressive new entrants to accounting software - products such as Mint, Wesabe, Expensr (acquired by Strands in April), Geezeo and Rudder. These products are focused on personal financing, such as budgeting and bank accounts.

Mint has received a lot of press (some would say hype). Currently Mint.com claims to serve nearly 400,000 users, manages over $12 billion in transactions, and has saved $100 million+ for its users. It recently released a new design, which we reviewed on ReadWriteWeb. The new design focused on the major new features added to Mint since their launch: enhanced budgeting tools, the addition of brokerage and investment accounts, mortgage accounts, student loans, and auto loans. In addition, we wrote, Mint has added six new "how to" guides that can help you with your major financial decisions. These include things like saving for retirement, paying off your student loans, buying a car, creating a personal budget, and more. The guides are the start of a new educational series for the site.

Mint seems like a great solution for US people who want to manage their money online. The downsides are that it's not international, there is no data import option (an important feature that many other online accounting packages have) and Mint doesn't cater to people who don't bank with large, national banking institutions.

This segment of the online accounting market - which is loosely termed 'money management' - is arguably the most exciting, because there are new software opportunities being explored. An example is moneyStrands, which we reviewed at the end of April. moneyStrands is employing recommendations technologies, such as enabling users to anonymously compare themselves to others with similar traits - e.g. demographics.

Conclusion

After all our testing, we're almost ashamed to say that we're still using custom spreadsheets to manage the accounts here at ReadWriteWeb. That's because multiple currency support is critical to our business, but sadly lacking in many of the products we tested. We'll check out Zoho Invoice though, as they claim to have implemented it.

Tell us in the comments if you're using online accounting software to manage your business or personal finances. What 'web 2.0' features have you come across in these products that have particularly impressed you?

top image credit: quickenonline

This week's RWW Live podcast show (Monday 3.30pm PST) is on the topic of online music. We have 2-3 very special guests (so far we have representatives from Yahoo and Imeem, please email me if you're interested in coming on the show, we have 1 final place to confirm). We've been writing a lot about online music lately. Last week Marshall asked: What would the perfect streaming music look like?. We got some great comments to that. But we're also interested in what your current favorite streaming music service is.

We asked this very question in August last year, at which point last.fm just pipped Pandora among our readers. In anticipation of RWW Live tomorrow, we're running the same poll now.

Note: there's no way we could mention every single online music streaming service in this poll, but if we happened to miss a major service then do shout it out asap in the comments!

What are your favorite online music streaming services? (multi-choice)
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Machines can do wonderful things. Side by side with the rise of a new world of publishers, the computer scientists of the world are cranking it up as well - building new ways to create value from the sea of data being published by people. And then they take their work and they sell it to advertisers!

Barf-o-rama!

We have some appreciation for advertising technology and we certainly appreciate our advertisers here at RWW - but why do so many innovative technologies end up slinking away into the ad tech world and watching their grand visions for user empowerment fade?

The most obvious answer to that question might be that advertising is where the money is made. Data mining, machine processing large quantities of information in order to unearth patterns or other valuable insights, seems just made for demographic and behavioral targeting by advertisers.

We argue here, however, that money can be and is being made from data mining in ways other than by by sale of information to ad networks. Cooler, more exciting ways. We briefly discuss four markets for mined data that we believe exist now or could hold strong demand for analysis of aggregate data from online activity.

Let's be honest - we're thinking about Twitter here. When people ask how Twitter is going to make money, we think data mining has huge potential. More than Twitter, though, all kinds of apps will soon trade in user data as a primary currency.

Here's what we think that could look like.

Traffic

The most obvious example that's already real is Internet Service Providers selling customer web traffic data to traffic analyst firms. When you see a company measures web traffic of sites around the web, you can be pretty sure they are buying data about what sites you are visiting from your ISP.

This isn't the most interesting example because traffic analysis does find some of its meaning in advertising. It's also used for competitive intelligence, identifying vertical leaders and generally adding some semi-verifiable sophistication to our understanding of the landscape of the web. Unfortunately, as any publisher online will tell you - the resulting traffic estimates from these services are often wildly inaccurate.

Sentiment Analysis

More interesting than simple comings and goings is sentiment analysis of language used online about a given topic. There are PR uses for this data, but there's also a market for it in analyst firms who use it to make recommendations to their subscribers and clients.

Summize Labs have gone behind the cover of acquisition, but we believe that at least some of the original work continues.

This was the real technology being built by Summize, the search engine recently bought by Twitter. You might have noticed that though Summize is now called search.twitter - there's still no link to it from the Twitter site. Perhaps search wasn't the most important part of Summize after all - perhaps it's the sentiment analysis that's got the most potential.

Vertical Trend Watching

Ok, so maybe sentiment analysis of online activity could be solid enough to be interesting and worth a lot of money some day. And if wishes and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merrier Christmas.

You know who's not messing around when it comes to stuff like this, though? People who trade in money. Hedge fund buyers in particular are particularly willing to try out hard core technology in order to get more and better information faster than anyone else. They are nuts for crazy tech; they pay thousands of dollars for research tools that could wrap Google Reader up like a pretzel and swallow it in one bite.

FirstRain parses data you'd probably not think to imagine.

Check out our review of power news dashboard FirstRain, and RootMarkets a company that aims to trade in futures of web browsing data, ultimately for lead generation.

We want to see this kind of data crunching research tech outside of financial markets, though. We'd love to see some trends crunched out of the Twitter streams from Real estate pros, people in the Navy or biotech researchers. Users are segmented into these categories already by the directory Twellow, for example. We think rapid analysis of emerging trends in those verticals is something people would pay for.

Benchmarking

Do you think there's a sexy, useful, uncreepy future for mining large amounts of user data from the web - outside of advertising?
( surveys)Google Analytics will now let you identify what kind of industry your website serves and once you do, they'll tell you how your website traffic trends compare to what's being seen by others in your industry. FreshBooks, a startup that provides online invoicing for independent professionals, offers benchmark data by industry to its users as well. Compared to other graphic designers, for example, you're charging less and getting your invoices filled slower than most.

Benchmark data helps people and businesses make better decisions, hopefully saving or making more money than they would have otherwise. Isn't that a lot more interesting than advertising?

Pointing out patterns of information gets people talking, too. Recommendation engine Strands offers a mobile banking service that prompts users to fill out their profile information by sharing interesting trivia with them about patterns in the data of users as a whole. "Did you know: married people spend 110% on groceries what single people do? Are you married or single?" Knowing whether customers are married or single lets a bank offer them targeted services, to understand the risks faced by their customers etc.

The Future of Data as Currency

These are just a few ways that large quantities of data can be used to derive value other than targeted advertising. All of them are more interesting than advertising, too.

Just like grocery stores give customers discounts in exchange for capturing their purchase histories, so too will users of online applications receive compensation for the data they co-produce with service providers that's subsequently monetized.

Beyond money, user co-producers of data will likely call for the ability to take their data from one service over to another, where they can contribute it to another aggregate of data and thus participate in another instance of value creation through the processing of data. That's data portability, or one way to articulate it.

We hope to see more examples of creative thinking about data mining and more startups that avoid taking the path of serving advertisers as their ultimate customers. The use of a tool impacts its orientation over time and these great technologies we are beginning to use online should be formed with greater goals in mind. There's too much utility at stake and the world's problems are too great for all this potential to be stunted by the seductive call of ad money. We hope an economy will grow to support alternative uses of user data and we hope it happens soon.

Top photo: Data processing center, CC from Flickr user Marcin Wichary

One of the many philosophical questions that came up in this year's fabulous Gnomedex conference was whether PR agents should vote for their clients in anonymous online polls or not. We argue that they should not due to conflict of interest, others argue that anyone should feel free to vote in such polls and tiny startups would be crazy not to rally all the support they can get.

Maybe it's no big deal, but we think it's an interesting question. What do you think? Let us know in the poll below, even if you work in PR yourself.

Should PR people vote in polls about their clients?
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RSS readers can click here to view or participate in the poll.

Earlier this month we asked whether good tech even needs PR. In that post we discuss some important things PR agencies do for their clients - things that make voting for them in polls look downright silly. That's our take on it, anyway, what's yours?

Photo: raise your hands for jesus by Flickr user johny hunter.

It's the weekend, so time to review the week's web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at the first reported Android phone, checked out the winners of the Firefox 3 Extensions contest, reviewed Microsoft's new 3D online photo app, dabbled with screencasting, and reported on Pandora's imminent demise. On the trends side we tried to define our perfect online music service, investigated whether FriendFeed's popularity is fading, checked out 10 emerging Web platforms, and polled you on the most exciting web apps on the Web today. We also introduced you to ReadWriteWeb's new feature: the Enterprise Channel!

Web Products

First Android Phone Approved By FCC

This week, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device.

Mozilla Announces Best New Firefox 3 Extensions

Mozilla just wrapped up its Extend Firefox 3 contest and, after reviewing over 100 entries, its team of judges has announced the winners for Best Add-ons, Best Updated Add-on, and Best Music Add-on. In the Best New Add-on category, the winners were Pencil by Dương Thành An, Tagmarks by Felipe Tassario Gomes, and HandyTag by Rémi Szymkowiak, while the Best Music Add-on category was won by Fire.fm from Jorge Villalobos and Jose Enrique Bolaños. The contest was meant to showcase extensions that made use of the new capabilities Mozilla introduced in Firefox 3 and managed to combine this with excellent usability and the use of open standards.

Microsoft Launches Photosynth: Your Pictures in 3D

This week, Microsoft publicly launched Photosynth, its long awaited Live Labs product that allows you to stitch your photos together to create a detailed 3D environment.  While most of the computation is done on your desktop, the images are uploaded to Microsoft's servers and Microsoft is giving all Photosynth users a total of 20GB of storage for their collections. The rendering and browsing is done with the help of Seadragon, another Live Labs product.

Create a Tour of Web Pages with Agglom

Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldn't be as tricky as it is. Sometimes you're on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isn't a handy way to bring people along with you from page to page and then let them have easy access to those pages after the conversation is through. Enter Agglom, a simple little service built by Italian developer Enrico Foschi. It's a Firefox plug-in that will make sharing a list of links far easier than it's been before. Agglom is a remarkably easy way to create a "slide show" of live links that you can share with other people. See the screencast demo we recorded below.

Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop

Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. While you can't necessarily pick and choose what you'll hear on the service, you can fine-tune your radio station's tastes by giving the songs that Pandora recommends a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Pandora on the iPhone is one of the best applications for streaming music and finding new tunes. So, what will the service's 1 million plus users do if Pandora pulls its own plug?

SEE MORE WEB PRODUCTS COVERAGE IN OUR PRODUCTS CATEGORY

Web Trends

What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like?

Pandora's on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news - the streaming music market online is expanding and contracting faster than a stadium rocker's pupils. What if the perfect service rose from the noise and gave you exactly the user experience you wanted? What would such a service look like?

See also: RIAA Takes Down Muxtape, Will Future Solutions Please Hurry Up & Arrive?

FriendFeed: Hotter Than Ever or Starting to Fade? (POLL)

No matter how you feel about FriendFeed, you can't argue with the fact that it has been one of most popular services among the early adopter set this year. For social media enthusiasts, the site fulfills a need to be always sharing, always active, always involved. In some cases, this led to a self-imposed information overload scenario - there was so much good stuff going on at FriendFeed that it was hard to turn away. But then, as people discovered the service's ability to hide items, they were able to better craft the FriendFeed (over)flow to their needs.

What do you think of FriendFeed?
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10 Promising Web Platforms

In this post we reviewed 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been covered extensively already. This list features some of our favorite 'lesser known' web developer platforms. There are many other excellent developer platforms that we didn't mention, so as always please use the comments to point out your own favorites.

What Three Web Apps Excite You Most?

Lachlan Hardy this week twittered an interesting question: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald. His own answers were interesting, but he also got a great response from commentors on his blog. So we thought we'd ask the same question (well, slightly re-worded) here on ReadWriteWeb. There are literally thousands of great web apps to choose from, many of which have been profiled here on RWW. Check out the comments to this post for a lot of great suggestions...

SEE MORE WEB TRENDS COVERAGE IN OUR TRENDS CATEGORY

NEW! RWW Enterprise Channel

This week we introduced a new feature to ReadWriteWeb: a special 'channel' devoted to Enterprise web apps and trends. Bernard Lunn is the editor of this channel and he kicked it off with two compelling posts...

Enterprise 2.0: The Nature of the Firm

The break-up of behemoth, vertically integrated enterprises commenced in the 1970's, got a boost from junk bond financing in the 1980's, and accelerated in the 1990's with globalization. Now, late in the 2000's, Social Media (aka Web 2.0) is adding another gear that will accelerate the fundamental restructuring of the enterprise. This is a big story. That is why ReadWriteWeb is dedicating a new "channel" to Enterprise 2.0.

See also: 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0

What is your position in the Enterprise 2.0 market. Do you work in IT in a large Enterprise? Do you work for a large incumbent Enterprise IT vendor? Do you work for a startup that is going to change the Enterprise world? Are you writing about this rapidly emerging market? Do you have unique insights or research to share? We would love to hear from you in the comments to these posts and maybe as a Guest Author. Email us if you're interested in writing for ReadWriteWeb's Enterprise Channel.

You can subscribe now to our special RSS feed for the Enterprise channel.

That's a wrap for another week! Enjoy your weekend everyone.