Double Dutch HYVE

In 2010 Double Dutch was name Best Mobile Start-up at the Next Web/Paypal X Start up Rally. 
Their newest product Double Dutch HYVE was introduced at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.  HYVE was created to help an organization become more collaborative, data-driven and to help increase a company's productivity.  It was created for companies but modeled off of the consumer side of technology.  Harnessing the ability of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare and creating something that allows the same type of social functioning for the work place, helping to solve work place issues. 

In order to introduce HYVE at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Lawrence Coburn, CEO and Co Founder decided to create an app for the iPhone that conference attendees could use during the conference.  The objectives of Double Dutch was to demonstrate HYVE's capabilities, allow conference attendees to log their activities and connections throughout the conference and to portray Double Dutch as the conference guide for social and mobile purposes. 

Conference attendees could check in to places at the conference as well as people and actions.  They had the ability to log where their time was spent, who it was spent with and the ways in which their time was spent.  Attendees then had the option to upload automatically to Twitter. 

An example of using HYVE technology in the workplace would be to look at the activities of a sales representative.  A sales representative who is traveling will meet with a client and then go back to a hotel, log into laptop and record the meeting.  HYVE check in allows the sales rep to do this through a smartphone.  What would have taken 10 minutes to do has now been reduced to seconds. 

HYVE can be linked to most back end databases that a company already uses and works with most major operating systems.  Some of HYVE's client list includes companies such as Cisco, HP, Gannet, Adobe, Amdocs, TCD and Arizona State University. 

After reading a lot of information on the products on display at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference it is the mobility apps such as HYVE that stand out the most to me.  The world is going more and more mobile and companies that are creating apps to make businesses and employees lives easier seems to be the wave of the future. 

Turkey Dials Back Plan to Expand Censorship

The government of turkey was trying to issue a set of four state mandated browsing filters for all Internet users in the country of Turkey.  This was met by a lot of criticism from the international community and protesting on the streets of Turkey.  In light of this the government has chosen to back off on implementing these strict standards.  Instead they are making available non-mandatory two content filters for its citizens.  The people of Turkey can choose to use them or to have unrestricted access to the Internet.  Under Turkey's law right now there are over 8,000 websites that have been blocked. The Internet Board that develops policy on the Internet is now in the process of drawing up amendments that would limit the rights of courts around the country to have the ability to block websites.  The withdrawal of the four mandatory Internet filters by Turkey was considered positive but Turkey is still being criticized for the two non-mandatory filters that are still linked to government rule.