<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a4794deb-2d27-409f-b64b-462eadde3e1d/2109F8FD-D70E-4AA3-BE6B-41D76D75FEFC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ovrdrv.com/stats/labels/Social%20Media.asp" href="http://www.ovrdrv.com/stats/labels/Social%20Media.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ovrdrv.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ovrdrv.com/stats/labels/Social%20Media.asp"><H1><A href="http://www.ovrdrv.com/stats/2008/04/forrester-predicts-surge-in-global.asp">Forrester Predicts Surge in Global Enterprise Web 2.0 Spending by 2013</A></H1> <DIV></DIV><DIV>According to <A href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/research">Forrester Research</A>, enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is rapidly growing and expected to continue this upward trend. With an anticipated compound annual growth rate of 43%, enterprise Web 2.0 spending is expected to reach $4.6 billion globally by the year 2013.</DIV><BR /><A href="http://www.ovrdrv.com/stats/uploaded_images/forrester-global-enterprise-web-20-spend-by-technology-2007-2013-708599.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://www.ovrdrv.com/stats/uploaded_images/forrester-global-enterprise-web-20-spend-by-technology-2007-2013-708594.jpg" /></A><DIV>The graphic above breaks down business spending on social networking, RSS, <A href="http://www.ovrdrv.com/blog">blogs</A>, wikis, mashups, podcasting, and widgets, the current popular growing technologies of Web 2.0.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The full Forrester report includes an analysis of enterprise Web 2.0 spending across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific as well as an analysis of the challenges facing vendors, particularly in the IT space, with Web 2.0. <A href="http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,43850,00.html">Check out the full report here.</A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2109F8FD-D70E-4AA3-BE6B-41D76D75FEFC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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