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Lotusphere Keynote with Tim Berners Lee, Watson, and Others

So during the keynote this morning they spoke about how Wastson works and how it might have real life applications.  To kick off, the speaker noted how Watson works Understands natural language and human speach Generate probabilities on the correct answers Learns as it goes All this is built on a massively parallel architecture optimized […]

Lotusphere Tuesday Keynote: Social Evolution with McKinsey, TD, and FAST Company

Michael Rodin, Senior VP in the Software Group kicked it off with a discussion with McKinsey and their recently released social business study. McKinsey thinks we are in the early stages of understanding how to make knowledge works more efficient Over the past 5 years, they’ve seen adoption increase Includes wikis, blogs, etc. Micro-blogging has […]

Mastering Community Pages powerd by IBM Connections and IBM Portal

So I’ve been very interested in deeper integration between Portal and Connections. That means that the beta out on Community Pages is of particular importance.  Jon Brown of the Connections team and Stefan Liesch of Portal and Content team fame gave the presentation. IBM has seen the concept of a social portal evolve.  Social Portal […]

IBM Connect Conference Opener with Guy Kawasaki (among others)

Here at Lotusphere, IBM has a conference within a conference called IBM Connect. It’s more business oriented with less “geek” going on.  The first speaker was Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager of IBM North America Note: Great quotes are in bold The most incredible thing about social business is that we are truly in a […]

Lotusphere Opening General Session

So I, Mark Polly, and Jonathan are at Lotusphere.  The opening session always provides an interesting set of news.  Here’s the key highlights To start OK GO played three songs to kick it off.  They have some interesting internet music videos worth checking out. Opening As anyone who follows should expect, the theme is social, […]

12 Social Business Predictions for 2012

Dione Hinchcliffe of the Dachis Group recently published his Top 12 predictions for what will happen to “social business” in 2012. We are seeing all sorts of predictions like these, and I enjoy reading every expert’s predictions in this space. Perficient is heavily involved in social collaboration for businesses with our portal and collaboration practice. […]