Looking for a 10 person hosted Atlassian Confluence wiki?  Good news: it just got a price cut.  Hosted confluence is now $49 / month.  According to the official company blog:
Team Hosted combines the enterprise features of Confluence with the convenience and affordability of SaaS. It lets users:

Edit pages using Microsoft Word
Utilize free third-party [...]

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CNET News has a long list of Google projects that are getting scrapped or otherwise cut back.  In short, here’s the buzz:
Getting shutdown (now or soon):

Google Video
Google Catalogs Search
Dodgeball
Jaiku (may live on w/volunteers)
Google Mashup Editor

Rumored to be shut down soon:

Grand Central
Knol
Google Base
Google Notebook

I’d add: Google Sites to that list, too.  But CNET didn’t call [...]

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Twitter recently announced a warning on their company blog about people sending private messages with links to a phishing site that pose as Twitter’s login page.  The site links to a bogus URL, twitter.access-logins.com, in hopes that the victim will re-enter their Twitter username and password without noticing that the URL is incorrect:

A [...]

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Over on the Giz today (ahem, Gizmodo) is an article on Google using their Moderator application to submit new ideas and allow other users to vote on it.  It’s an interesting idea, and reminds me of what I wrote about earlier regarding UserVoice.
If Google likes your idea and makes oodles of money off of [...]

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There are a lot of Twitter clones that are trying to figure out how to take the power of simple micro-blogging and bring it to the enterprise: Yammer, Present.ly, and WizeHive to name just a few.  They all share one feature that I find utterly fascinating: they all use a simple command line interface for [...]

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recently made a plea to Wikipedia users via a flashy new header atop Wikipedia asking for more donations.  According to an article in ArsTechnica, Wikipedia’s operating expenses for 2008 were $6 million USD, up from $3.5 million in 2007.  Wikipedia has been struggling to keep up their cash reserves while [...]

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I’ve been pretty quiet about the project I’m currently working on, but that’s going to change now that we’re heading towards the beginning of our private beta program.
I’m currently working with a group of wickedly smart people to build a new hosted (yes, SaaS-based) collaborative decision making platform: DecisionSpaces.
What does DecisionSpaces do?  There are [...]

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