NEC's new services and technologies in the web 2.0 age

Since around 2005, Web 2.0 mashup services such as the Google Maps etc. are becoming familiar conversation topics. Web 2.0 has now passed the stage at which it was merely a source of "amusing" services for consumers and it has now begun to exert various impacts on software, services, SI and development techniques. The developmental styles and product/service strategies of software development businesses are under strong pressures for innovation and in support of this trend, NEC is promoting various Web 2.0 influenced activities. This paper is intended to consider the development and product/service strategies that are required in the Web 2.0 age and also to introduce the Web 2.0-related activities that are being pioneered at NEC.