Sounds a little like that old tune to me. Can anybody of the executives listen and support the daily work of their employees (not only) against the IT-staff that established their very own benefices.

Panelists say IT can’t stop Web 2.0 | InfoWorld | News: “IT may continue to try to prevent other [tag-tec]Web 2.0[/tag-tec] applications from getting into corporate users’ hands, but the effort will be equally as futile, according to Glotzbach, who said that workers are moving from individual productivity (t d f) to team productivity.

• Tonic Systems - Java PowerPoint® Specialists
  Bought by Google while they revealed that a presetation builder will complements the Google office suite.
  (tags: presentation web2.0 office2.0)
• TechStars - vc method
  “TechStars is doing something similar to what YCombinator has done – they’re funding 10 teams with up to $15,000 in seed capital and providing office space, operational support, and mentors from business leaders (and potential follow-on investors) in
  (tags: innovation vc)
• Dekoh
  “Dekoh Desktop is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform based on several open standards.

• OnePipe
  very cool!
  (tags: rss)
• Feed Crier :: RSS and Atom Feeds by instant message
  Cool too! “Get the latest news, weather, blogs, and more delivered free to your instant messenger.”
  (tags: rss im)
• SaaS vs. Webware
  Will test that on the street “To me or a layman, webware echoes software (which I already understand) and explains that I’ve got stuff designed for use over the web that’s doing the job.”
  (tags: innovation language terms)
• Allcontext - Realtime Media Similarity Engine
  Interesting “Allcontext taps nearly every content source, indexes and semantically calculates new information out of it.”
  (tags: media search rdf similarity)
• Barcelona - a photoset on Flickr
  wonderful images
  (tags: travel barcelona images)
• Bungee Labs
  Promising “The Bungee Connect™ on-demand development environment dramatically increases both developer productivity and application capability by automating Ajax interactivity, reducing web state management programming, and optimizing intelligent integr
  (tags: development innovation ajax api)
• Jon Udell
  Jon, why don’t you use nicer “out-of-the-box”-templates?
  (tags: blog it innovation)
• CONTENS relate - Social Software
  Social Software as a commodity.

Writewith, another web-based application that makes it easy to forget that you need to own a computer (plus expensive software) to (for instance) write something.

writewith:
- Upload documents to the web
- Assign tasks to others and share docs with them
- Edit together, chat, and see changes as soon as they happen
- Comprehensive history for each doc

I just think that only those application services will survive in the market that somehow integrate with [tag-tec]storage service providers[/tag-tec].