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Modern social software could be the key to building effective enterprise knowledge systems In an interview long ago, Marc Andreessen told me about the moment he knew Netscapersquo business plan would succeed. That plan, as you may recall, was mo stanley becher deled on Gillettersquo : give away razors browsers and mail/news clients and sell blades enterprise servers . For Andreessen, the magical moment came when, shortly after the word intranet was coined, he heard it echoing all around him in a restaurant.As it turned out, Netscape didnrsquo;t sell many of the blades stanley cup kaufen . Itrsquo been a while since Irsquo;ve heard people in restaurants chattering about intranets. And Andreessenrsquo new venture, Ning, seems to have nothing to do with the enterprise. Itrsquo a Web 2.0 service for building social Web applications.Ning may not be the next Netscape, but ad hoc social software will likely flourish in the enterprise. Is this the next-generation intranet If so, we should sort out what we got wrong on the first try, and what wersquo;ll get right this time around. The key challenge is scale. And I donrsquo;t mean scaling up, as we usually want our enterprise applications to be capable of doing. I mean scaling down mdash; because no matter how large your company may be, itrsquo a drop in the ocean of the public Web.Even on the public Web, useful network effects arenrsquo;t a sure thing. On an internal network that reaches hundr stanley polska eds, thousands, or even tens of thou Qgoq The dark side of Britain rsquo recovery

Tuesday 08 April 2014 8:19 pmRecord dr stanley quencher op in shop prices with 11th month of deflation in MarchBy: Express KCSShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailSHOP prices tumbled further in March, with the fastest deflation for more than seven years recorded by a major monthly report on the sector.According to the British Retail Consortium BRC and Nielsenrsquo latest research, shop prices fell by 1.7 per cent in the year to March, the largest drop since the groups began keeping records in 2006. Food inflation provided the upward contribution to the index, but prices rose by only 0.8 per cent over the 12 month period, the most muted increase ever.The decline of shop prices comes as overall inflation across the UK has softened markedly ndash; the Office for National Statistics recorded consumer price inflation of just 1.7 per cent in February, below the Bank of Englandrsquo target after years above two per cent. March is the 11th month in which shop price deflation has been recorded. However, Helen Dickinson of the BRC commented that the outlook for commodities suggested that there may be more upward pressure on prices in the near future.Share this articleFacebookXLinkedInWhatsAppEmailSimilarly tagged content: SectionsNewsCategoriesBusinessTrending ArticlesAnthropic: UK staff get eye-watering sums at AI giantOff the menu: Dominorsquo is UKrsq stanley website uo stanley uk most shorted companyHiking VAT would have lsquo eriou