Being a successful company, especially one small in size, is no longer all about having the best product. Twenty-first century business is more about marketing and communication than it has ever been. The internet has revolutionized the way we think, do business and live. No wonder most companies who …

A manifesto written by Geert Lovink and Franco Berardi in which they call for action against the influence of financial markets, which are destroying the foundations of social civilization.

In this paper, we will argue that developments in social media in the past few years open up an opportunity space for developing "integration software". Such software supports company specific use cases, while the software expands on existing social media infrastructure through web API's. We have explored …

The Internet is changing the way we organize work. It is shifting the requirements for what we call the “schedule push” and the hierarchical organization that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

In this article, van der Reep argues the need for a new architectural priciple when desgining software systems. The Internet and its capacity to provide social media technology is creating a new P2P networked economy. An economy based around people working together and which will have a major impact …

Emergent social software platforms zijn anders dan de traditionele bedrijfsapplicaties. Het gebruik ervan is vrijwillig. Ze kennen geen workflow of autorisaties. Het gebruik staat los van titel of positie. ESSP's snijden dus dwars door de organisatiehiërarchie heen.

Wikipolicy: the development of institutional policy using social software. In 2008, the University initiated a project entitled “Policy Workshop 2013” to deliver the “2009 - 2013 policy framework”. This new policy should encapsulate the insights, opinions and wishes of students, staff and stakeholders. …

On the internet we enjoy a continuously growing generation of web applications enabling anyone to create and publish online content in a simple way, to link content and to share it with others. The internet has become a social software platform sailing under the Web 2.0 flag, creating revolutionary changes …

A damage estimation exercise has been carried out using the building stock inventory and population database of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and selected European earthquake loss estimation packages: KOERILOSS, SELENA, ESCENARIS, SIGE, and DBELA. The input ground-motions, common to all models, …

Snel wijzigende technologieën hervormen onze maatschappij en daarin veranderen we zelf ongemerkt mee. Als consument nemen we geen genoegen meer met slechte service of gebrekkige keuze en kwaliteit. Internet maakt ons als consument steeds machtiger en mondiger. Het zich steeds vernieuwende web zal gebruikersvriendelijkheid …