"AJAX, SaaS, SOA, RIA, Ruby, mash-up, TNNI, tagging, wiki, long tail, viral, meta-communities..."

It's raining buzzwords here at the Ritz Carlton Hotel...

I'm at the New New Internet Conference in Tyson's Corner, VA today with our company CIO and some other techy co-workers.

The morning was a bit thick on company marketing plugs, but Dion Hinchcliffe's panel discussion is pretty good.

Here are some talking points from one of the presenters.

Rajen Sheth, Product Manager, Google Enterprise:

What does Web 2.0 mean for business? - Simplicity for the end user - Simplicity for the developer - Eliminate barriers to information - Power of the cloud

Key lessons about Web 2.0 for business - Employees and consmers are one in the same - Always keep it simple for the average user - The simplest most useful standard wins in the end - Information quality= Great search X More information - Hosted services let you focus on your business rather than your infrastructure

Rajen did have a funny story about the first usability test of Google. Some users paused for a long time when presented with the Google search page of 1997. It turns out they thought all the white space was from the page loading. So the designers added a copyright line in the footer.

- mike lee