Most of us have surely forgotten about Lyle and Erik, but I remember Hardwick's cool view of their father's celebrated head for business: "This is an indefinable endowment, a sort of genetic luck perhaps, in which one need not invent anything or even start up a useful enterprise.
This passage from one of my posts on day one — Oct. 24, 2007 — still serves well as an articulation of why I think blogging (at least the way I do it) is a useful enterprise: The strength of science lies in the trajectory of understanding more than in any single finding, and the most durable ideas emerge from conversation, not monologue.
It is not clear, however, that asking ambiguous questions of this sort is a useful enterprise, since different respondents will in effect be answering different questions.
Convo, a platform that lets workers post messages to and converse with others in their company in real time, is today releasing an update with a couple of notable features that alternately make the app more fun to use, and likely also a lot more useful (for those who use enterprise social media services to actually, you know, get work done).
Real-time analytics of data can be useful to enterprises and their consumer bases in a variety of ways.
"At General Catalyst, we focus on user-centric products that have the potential to become hugely useful in enterprises," said Trevor Oelschig, Managing Director at General Catalyst, in a statement.
CDNs are used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver web pages, but this technology is also very useful to enterprises for the delivery of downloadable media, mobile media, software, documents, applications, and especially the real-time streaming of audio, video and television.
Unfortunately, a thriving pub is perhaps not, these days, half so useful to Enterprise as an empty one.
This data can be insanely useful to enterprise customers looking for available insights on the physical presences of the unique parties that are critical to their operation.
In essence, Web 2.0 functionality is very useful in Enterprise systems, traditional B2B suppliers don't have it, so you have to go to B2C platforms.
