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There's been nothing more talked about this week than the Facebook IPO. Not just because a lot of people are going to make a lot of money -- well OK, maybe that's exactly why everyone is so jazzed up. It's been reported that more than 1000 millionaires were created yesterday.

The FB stock closed at a mediocre US$ 38.23 with a market cap of US$ 104.82 billion -- roughly 50% of Google's market value. A vigorous first day on the market saw 580 million shares trade hands but not much of the spike that many expected.

But we see more here. The IPO signifies notable things for big data and acts as a health signal for the social business space overall.

Beyond the Facebook IPO chatter, we've been looking at changes taking place within the social enterprise:

• Say 'No' to Expensive Intranets
• Social Business Software - Solitary Child, Amongst Close Friends or Mr. Popular?
• How Mobile is Changing Organizational Structures and the Future Workplace

REMINDER: Next Wednesday, May 23rd, our Mobile Experience Tweet Jam takes place and we'd love to see you there. Get the details here.

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• Jun 26 -- Forrester's Customer Experience Forum New York

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Facebook has just made its phenomenal initial public offering at NASDAQ, and industry observers are talking of how big the impact of the social network's IPO will be, outside of newly-minted millionaires and billionaires of the Internet age. But, apart from Facebook's new found influence and clout in the financial scene, there is also one additional driver of growth for what can be considered the de facto social network for most of the world's online citizens: Asia.

There's something in the air today that makes me think about Tulip mania. Perhaps it's the warm weather. Or my allergies. Or maybe it's this sale I hear is going on today.

Regardless, our contributors this week had a lot to share on the subject of the mobile experience, both in and out of the office. We heard perspectives on how mobility is and will continue to change the structures of the workspace, how mobile is a good channel -- but not the only one, got a tip on how to choose your next Enterprise CMS and were urged to keep our content tidy.

Now about that sale...

Take a minute and talk mobile strategy with Marci Maddox, Director Global Product Marketing at OpenText.

Everyone knows the mobile web is growing at light speed, introducing new opportunities and challenges in web management. However, when I look at my client’s web analytics, the leading device accessing their website is not a smartphone, it’s a tablet. Apple iPad consistently ranks as the #1 device for viewing web content.

Adobe recently released some research that backs this up. Adobe’s “The Rise of Tablets" (pdf) projects that tablet visits will surpass all smartphone visits by January 2013 and generate over 10 percent of all website visits by early 2014. Tablet web traffic is growing 200 percent faster than smartphones. The iPad commands the tablet market. Last year Comscore reported that the Apple iPad accounted for over 97 percent of tablet web traffic.

Polycom has announced updates to its RealPresence video content management system, offering secure access to video content for smartphone and tablet users, as well as real-time transcoding for compatibility across various mobile and Web platforms.

While mobile, cloud, BYOD and other trends are racing into the enterprise, there is a lot written about what these technologies are improving in the enterprise, and how IT has to adjust to deal with these changes. But very few people are writing about how these changes in communication are affecting organizational structures.

We all know that search terms can have multiple meanings and it is high time that search engines could tell the difference based on the vast repository of online information available. Enter Google's Knowledge Graph to sort it all out, with mobile users high up the priority list.

With Sapphire Now, SAP’s annual gathering coming to a close later today, it’s hardly surprising that there is a bit of something for everyone. There’s cloud, mobile and databases, with the ERP king announcing the release of around 70 apps that do different things with different systems.

In the 2012 CODiE Awards for the Business Software Industry, SpringCM, Pervasive Software, Citrix Online and Coverity Inc. get recognized.

The writing is on the wall and it has been read.

The importance of mobile devices, and by association mobile apps, is well established for businesses today.
 

With smartphone sales booming, the latest research shows Samsung and Apple leaving the rest of the pack standing. A trend that could leave Microsoft and BlackBerry in the wilderness, before they even launch their next-generation products.

Let's play a game! I'll talk about three current trends that span business and technology and you try to guess what is at the heart of all of them. The first one who guesses wins a pat on the back and a deeper level of insight into how our litigious society is stifling both innovation and growth along with spurring a whole new industry.

A recent Adobe survey sees tablet Internet use overtaking smartphones by next year, with tablet-originated data usage running some ten times faster than that of phones. Will the tablet become the dominant form of web access, and what will the upcoming Olympics do to shake up viewing habits?

Consolidated cloud-services system stalwart Zoho has launched a website builder to go along with its suite of other tools for CRM, DAM and mobile apps. Zoho Sites is available now in the Google Apps Marketplace, and the two main levels are a free version, and a US$ 40 per year option for up to six websites.