Rockin' Robin: Robin Goldfarb Wilensky's Weblog

I found this great video on YouTube that explains quite simply what it meant by Web 2.0. While many of you might already know this, I thought it was worthwhile to post the video here.

Enjoy!

Yesterday I attended Day 1 of CommunityOne at the Marriott Marquis in NYC. I'm going to give you some highlights from the event to whet your appetite for more...

Top 5 list:

1. The Sun is breaking through the Clouds. Sun announced their "Sun Open Cloud Platform" beginning with the Sun Cloud which will consist of a compute service, a storage service, a virtual datacenter and an Open API. You can find the API already on http://kenai.com/.
   
2. Speaking of Kenai... Wouldn't it be great to have a place to host open source projects and collaborate with developers all over the world? Now you can! Register at Kenai and start creating today!
   
3. Build your enterprise social network fast with LifeRay. This is what WebSynergy (aka WebSpace)is built on. Social widgets like blogs, wikis, chat, rss feeds, tags, ratings, comments and mashups are easy.
   
4. Create Zembly and get going!
   
5. Follow Kenai & Zembly happenings on Twitter.
   

Action Item: Check them out!

In this next installation, I want to introduce you to Project Kenai. The title of this blog says it all but if that's not enough to catch your interest, here's more...

As a Web 2.0 company, or one that wants to grow its online community, collaboration is king because it ensures that you can accomplish your tasks faster, cheaper and more efficiently.

That's where Project Kenai comes in. Project Kenai is a platform and ecosystem for developers. Your developers.

Developers can:

• Freely host up to 5 open source projects and code.
  
• Connect, collaborate, communicate and code with peers.
  
• Eventually deploy applications and services to clouds, easily.
  

It's easy to get started because Kenai includes so many of the features developers need built right in:

• Code Repositories like SVN, Mercurial and external options.
  
• Issue Tracking like BugZilla and Jira.
  
• Collaboration Tools including Wiki, forums and mailing lists.
  
• Document Hosting
  
• Your Profile
  
• Administrative Role
  

Why should you care? In other words, how does this benefit your company?

Allows you to take advantage of shared resources: Developers work together across the Internet!

So, get started today.

1. Check out some of the projects already being worked on
   
2. Join the Kenai community
   
3. Request an invitation to host your own project
   
4. Stay connected: Read our blog, follow us on twitter and join our Facebook group
   

And, remember - if you love it, blog about it!

If you are like most Web 2.0 companies, or companies who want to use the power of the Web to grow their online communities, then the things you care about are NOT the traditional things that most companies care about. You most likely want a low-cost, low-maintenance, open-source, quick-time-to-market solution. However, you view technology as a competitive advantage and will pay for value-add features that enhance that advantage. But you already know this, so why am I telling you? Because I want you to know, that we know this too.

Sun is committed to helping you grow your community, which is turn grows your business. And we are committed to providing services and tools to help you do it better, faster, cheaper. That's where Zembly comes in.

In this first installation of Web 2.0 and Beyond, I want to introduce you to Zembly. Zembly is a new kind of development environment for building Social applications. What's great about Zembly for you?

• It's free. It's built on open source. There's no cost to you. Did I mention it's free?
  
• It's completely browser based so you can develop anywhere you are.
  
• It's social so you can connect with other Zembly users and more importantly you can collaborate with other programmers to build your apps.
  
• It's easy. Zembly provides templates to get you started and you can clone existing widgets or applications for even faster development.
  
• It's flexible. There is an IDE-class editor built in. You can consume popular Web APIs with a single line of code or you can use your own server or API.
  
• It's hosted. Deploy and publish right from Zembly.
  

The applications you build run on popular platforms including Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial, Google Gadgets, iPhone Web Applications (Safari) and any Web widgets.

So, what are you waiting for? Get started today! Oh, and if you love it, please blog about it! Thanks!