Socialtext News & Articles

Not to be outdone by the other Enterprise 2.0 vendor announcements during the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week, IBM (news, site) not only unveils the SaaS version of their social computing solution, LotusLive Connections, but they also take home an award for it.

More news coming on the second day of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Socialtext (news, site) is offering their hosted social networking solution for free for organizations of up to 50 people. Along with the new free offering, they also announce the public beta of their social spreadsheet solution: SocialCalc.

You know MindTouch (news, site) for its enterprise class wiki and collaboration portal. They consistently bring out new solutions to help you collaborate faster and smarter in the MindTouch environment. Now the open source collaboration vendor brings you a new suite of productivity tools for your desktop.

For most of us, our typical workday doesn’t involve much espionage, but that doesn’t prevent us from digging for information like our lives depend on it. There’s no denying that in this age of information, the trouble is no longer not having information, but in fact having too much.

The question changes from what does one “need to know” -- a situation where others decide what information is relevant to you and for you, to “do I need to know” -- where the individual determines the value of the information for oneself and, even more importantly, whether it’s relevant at present: “do I need to know now.”

You are probably spending a good chunk of your day on Tweetdeck twittering away -- it's addictive, we know. You may also be hanging out on Yammer Desktop with your co-workers yamming it up -- that we also know well.

But Adobe AIR can be used to build much more than a micro-blogging application and SocialText (news, site) has set out to prove it. With the SocialText Desktop you can view your SocialText Signals right from your desktop. But you say SocialText Signals is just another micro-blogging solution. No, SocialText says. It's a lot more.

Socialtext, a provider of social networking and collaboration software, has introduced a microblogging platform into their system. Socialtext Signals are Yammer-Twitter-like messages that allow co-workers and colleagues to stay up-to-date on the going-ons.

Each year KMWorld publishes the top 100 knowledge management companies "with attitude." Relying on feedback from colleagues, analysts, system integrators and the vendors themselves, the annual list spotlights organizations that demonstrate a commitment to customer-driven innovation and exceptional market agility.

Below, a shortlist of industry standouts -- and why they made it this year.

Sitecore, the vendor behind the namesake web content management system, has released a survey and identified three trends that, they say, will drive the web content management industry in 2009. These key driving factors took root and were visible in 2008, but according to Sitecore, we will see the trends truly manifest in the current calendar year.

To gather these industry trends, Sitecore queried 83 of their U.S. based customers.

The race for enterprise 2.0 stardom is on. Companies like Microsoft, Adobe,  Amazon and Skype have all been in recent news regarding the topic.

Sadly,  SuiteTwo, an Intel-backed enterprise 2.0 suite, is dropping out when competition is tough and the economy is even tougher.

Socialtext has released the latest version of its wiki platform — Socialtext 3.0 — that will allow users to better manage information and engage in more conversations and connections in an enterprise environment. Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People are the highlights of this release.

As we previously covered, wiki provider Socialtext, is expanding their offerings with two additions to their service, “Socialtext Dashboard” and Socialtext People”.

CMSWire had the opportunity to discuss these two recent additions with Chairman and President of Socialtext, Ross Mayfield.

Spend a little bit of time listening to what your customers actually need and you might get some really good, saleable ideas for new features and services offerings for your product. At least that’s what Socialtext did, announcing the newest version of their business social software along with four new service solutions.

It’s a season of change at Palo Alto-based wiki startup Socialtext.

The company has just announced its appointment of Eugene Lee as Chief Executive Officer and member of its board. It has also stated that it has closed a Series C funding round of US$ 9.5 million.

The Open Source Initiative has officially approved a pair of shared source licenses Microsoft recently submitted. This means the licenses in question are officially open source.

For those going, “Huh?” on account of the endless drama going down between Microsoft and the open source community, the OSI addresses that in a statement:

“In spite of recent negative interactions between Microsoft and the open source community, the spirit of the dialog was constructive and we hope that carries forward to a constructive outcome as well.”

The OSI acts as a kind of gatekeeper for Open Source Definition and its license review process. In July, the collective officially approved Socialtext’s Common Public Attribution License after nine months.

Formal evaluation of Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) began in August.

Socialtext has just released a plugin that supports Movable Type 4. It enables users to post on both MT4 and the Socialtext wiki simultaneously — tags included.

The plugin only requires server name, workspace name and username and password to unite with your MT4 account. To start your blog-and-wiki dual post extravaganza, download the Socialtext plugin here.