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Portfolio Management Maturity Model at Chevron - Presentation & Discussion
November 13, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET (GMT-4)
The fundamental goal of the model is to help IT become a business partner and earn a seat at the table. Core to the model is to establish a five year IT strategic road map that is owned by the business. Presenter Janinne Franke is manager of strategy, planning & optimization at Chevron's corporate department & services. She will share processes and lessons learned from developing and implementing the model.
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November 02, 2007 — IDG News Service — Google's OpenSocial got a major boost on Thursday when MySpace, the world's most popular social networking site, announced it will participate in the project to streamline the creation and adoption of social Web applications.
This means that MySpace, like other OpenSocial participants, will be able to offer all applications created by third-party developers that are compatible with the OpenSocial application programming interface (API).
For developers, the addition of MySpace to OpenSocial is a major step, opening their applications to that social networking site's massive base of users.
On Tuesday, Google confirmed the existence of the OpenSocial program, which is widely seen as not only Google's strongest move in social networking to date, but also as a response to the rising popularity—and threat—of Facebook.
Although Facebook is the second-most popular social networking site in the world, it is growing faster than MySpace, thanks in large part to the fact that Facebook opened its platform to external developers in May, something MySpace is only now about to do.
To date, Facebook has about 7,000 applications available for its members. It hasn't said whether it will participate in OpenSocial, although Google says the door is open.
"Despite reports, Facebook has still not been briefed on OpenSocial. When we have had a chance to understand the technology, then Facebook will evaluate participation," Brandee Barker, Facebook spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.
OpenSocial can, in theory, dilute this distinguishing feature of Facebook, by offering a core set of APIs that will let developers write an application once that is compatible with multiple sites.
In other words, OpenSocial seeks to address the inconvenience for developers of having to port applications to different social networking Web sites.
In addition to MySpace, other partners participating in OpenSocial include Oracle, Salesforce.com, Hi5, iLike, LinkedIn, Slide, Ning, Friendster, Six Apart and Plaxo.
The recent furor over Facebook, MySpace and Google's OpenSocial is indicative of the rising importance of social networking sites for people both in life and at work.
Originally considered of interest only to teens and young adults for communicating with friends, these sites have broadened their demographic appeal as they have proven useful for more activities, including professional networking and business activities.
For Google, which has had the Orkut social networking site for several years, its reaction to this revolution is belated, but the company recognizes that it needs to improve its position in this space.
Within sites like Facebook, a lot of formerly dispersed online activities are united under a single virtual roof, making these sites very attractive for advertisers. That's because people share a lot of personal information about themselves on the sites, making the users easy to target with commercial pitches.
Just the basics, please. Sometimes we all need a refresher or we need to make sure our team and our colleagues are all on the same page.
Over 25 tutorials on everything from business intelligence to virtualization.