Email and collaboration: Examples include Jotspot (hosted wikis), Goowy, Meebo (web-based instant messaging) and Zimbra. The web search giant last Thursday confirmed it had bought Upstartle, which produces the hosted word-processing service Writely.
Growth opportunities within the market would be for niche communities targeted at middle-age or young web surfers, Rashtchy said. For that reason, content and communities are corners for investment and growth, Rashtchy said.
At the company's Mix07 conference in Las Vegas today, chief software architect Ray Ozzie and other Microsoft executives are scheduled to lay out the elements of Microsoft's "software plus services" push, its approach to making money from hosted...
The rise and rise of social networking websites such as News Corp's MySpace has put the spotlight on how businesses respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. Asked how much time in the office they spend using social networking...
Web 2.0 tools, encompassing second-generation web applications such as social-networking sites and blogs, aim to facilitate information-sharing and collaboration among users. Web 2.0 and web content management facilitate collaborative communication...
It warns CIOs, comms managers and councillors to allow the public to shape their communities through forums and to engage with community websites and blogs or risk being branded "Luddite".silicon.com Public Sector