Samepage News & Articles

Don’t we all know that collaborative content is the name of the game? As of the advent of Web two-dot-oh, anyway.

“Despite the hype, we’ve learned that most large institutions are still not using wikis yet,” mused Aniruddha Gadre, CEO of eTouch.

Our friend and TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is having a good day. As reported in the New York Post and confirmed by Graham, the well known eco-blog has just been acquired by Discovery Communications, the parent company of the Discovery Channel.

The price was apparently some form of US$ 10 million. That’s so far unconfirmed, and undisputed.

Of note is that Graham claims that “over the last year, we were approached by over 15 large companies.”

Our congrats go out to Graham, Olga, Nick Aster and the others who built this project from the ground up over the past 4 years.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

Today marks the release of eTouch’s SamePage 3.3, an enterprise wiki that promises to boost user productivity with, among other things, broader deployment options.

So for those suffering a dearth of variety, take heart.

Little more than six weeks after the release of SamePage 3.1, eTouch announced the availability of SamePage 3.2 at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The latest release of the Enterprise Wiki solution rounds a number of corners and simplifies integration of 3rd party Web 2.0 services.

A great or very fickle man once said “No written masterpiece is too good for improvement.” With that in mind, it’s comforting in some way to know your enterprise project collaboration software of choice has no illusions about its own perfection.

Combining the unique collaboration aspects of wikis and blogs with the flexibility of a content management system, eTouch gives us SamePage take 3.1, topping their SamePage 3.0 release from last November.

Not surprisingly, Microsoft is working on merging the core architectures of the SharePoint Portal and Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) products. The first version of the new architecture is due out with the Office 12 release late next year.

In one of the first public statements on the topic, Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s group vice president of Information Worker Product Group, indicated that the future of the two products was around more common technologies and an integration, if not outright convergence.