Listening to the Chatter
Salesforce.com’s Chatter social computing service is now available to a limited number of private beta participants. Salesforce.com’s first shot across the social computing bow was fired back in...
View ArticleWhy Did Google Buy DocVerse
There’s a lot of speculation on various blogs about Google’s acquisition of DocVerse, a startup founded by former Microsoft employees to enable co-authoring of MS Office documents. Most of the...
View ArticleUsing Facebook for Your Customer Community? Think Again!
Given the rapid growth of Facebook over the last year it’s no wonder that many companies are embracing it to create communities for their customers, partners, and fans. But before deciding to use...
View ArticleGoogle Extends Google Docs With Real-Time Collaboration
Google announced several new features for Google Docs today. Most of these are designed to improve the UI to take advantage of advancements in browser capabilities, but the most notable new feature is...
View ArticleSocial Computing and ERP: Context Matters
I’m attending this week’s annual SAP customer/partner conference: SAPPHIRENOW (Twitter hash-tag of the same name to follow numerous tweets). It’s the first time I’ve been here, mainly because things...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0 take-away: It’s about collaboration in context
Another Enterprise 2.0 is in the books! This year’s show featured a lot more diversity in terms of content and focus, moving beyond a social networking and into areas such as video, organizational...
View ArticleThe Social Wall Springs a Leak
Microsoft last week announced a connector between Microsoft Outlook, and profile information in Facebook. The service works by matching a user’s e-mail address to their Facebook profile. So if one of...
View ArticleGoogle’s Wave Crashes
Google announced last week it would end development of Wave as a stand-alone collaboration tool. While Wave was ground-breaking in terms of delivering an ability for groups of individuals to...
View ArticleCan Lotus Leverage the Cloud?
IBM announced enhancements to LotusLive this week (see Ed Brill’s write-up for details). At just $5.00 per user with a one user minimum, IBM offers a hosted version of Domino, accessible via either web...
View ArticleMicrosoft Heads for The Cloud
Coming on the heels of enhancements to LotusLive, Microsoft has now unveiled “Office 365“, the next generation of their former Business Productivity On-Line Services (BPOS). Microsoft’s base offering...
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