Silicon.com meets up with Lars Rabbe, Yahoo's CIO to get his views on the applicability of Web 2.0 for the enterprise.
Rabbe says:
"Web 2.0 is really the ability for a lot of people to produce content and the social network really has all the elements that will allow you to discern the quality of the content and find the right content.
One of the big challenges that we've had for many years and one of the last great frontiers of CIO-dom is the ability to organise and retrieve unstructured information.
We still haven't broken the issue of unstructured information. There are lots of content management systems around and lots of document management systems but it still doesn't give you that assessment of quality and I think the tools that we are developing for social network and web 2.0 are really going to be very applicable inside the enterprise to solve this problem."
Rabbe makes a strong point about how Web 2.0 technologies, when used in the enterprise, can help solve one of the perennial problems - that of effectively organizing and describing information scattered across the enterpirse.
Here at ConnectBeam, we've always held this belief that the existing set of content management and knowledge management solutions for the enterprise are not going to scale and keep pace with the changing landscape of user habbits and how information is being gathered, shared, and consumed.
