Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Steve
Two things about ESN (enterprise social networking) and ESC (enterprise social computing) solutions bother me. One: often times people talk about the features using empty buzzwords that fail to succinctly describe what people really want to do. Second: a lot of proclaimed ESN/ESC tools get lumped together, even though they really only offer a partial [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Steve
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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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
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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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Steve
One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is how companies might approach adopting more SaaS (software as a service). Specifically: what’s the motivating factor to make the jump from on-site hosted solutions all the way to SaaS delivery (skipping the Cloud Computing bump in-between), and which IT services in particular are easier [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
In an article yesterday, InformationWeek named PBWiki their favorite on-demand wiki. I tried out PBWiki myself, and here’s my take on it:
I agree that it takes very little time to get started with a new Wiki. The site is very fast, and generally very easy to use. It only took me about 30 seconds [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Steve
The next release of Microsoft Office, codenamed “Office 14”, is to include a completely web-based version of the popular tools in the Office suite, including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
A technical preview of these web-based tools was expected to be out and accessible to the general public by now, but apparently those plans have [...]
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