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NewsGator Technologies was one of the nine companies who announced product integrations with Microsoft SharePoint at the Enterprise 2.0 conference last week. For these guys though it wasn’t “breaking” news, as they have been talking about the latest version of Social Sites for a few months now.

The Enterprise 2.0 conference has kicked into full swing and Microsoft seems to plan on taking center stage. They have already laid out a number of new announcements that give it's flagship content management system SharePoint an overflow of social networking options.

First introduced last year, NewsGator’s Social Sites were built to provide Enterprise 2.0 capabilities to SharePoint Server 2007. This week they have announced several new features to Social Sites that increase the social networking and community capabilities of SharePoint even more.

In its ongoing efforts to bling-bling big business, Enterprise RSS firm NewsGator has added a series of Enterprise 2.0 functionalities to MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Dubbed NewsGator Social Sites, the solution purports to add a bit of collabo-friendly playfulness to the MOSS platform. And if there's anything Microsoft could use right now, it's a friend.

If you've got an hour or so tomorrow afternoon, learning more about RSS and its role in Enterprise 2.0 may be worth your while.