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Sajan announced the latest release of Authoring Coach, their authoring memory tool. Authoring Coach is an authoring memory tool that provides live, interactive access to multilingual, approved source content from any Windows authoring application. The latest release of AC offers significant advancements to analytics with the addition of an ROI calculator, as well as improved search functionality due to the integration of TMate Search Technology, Sajan's advanced matching engine optimized for the language translation industry. http://www.sajan.com

MindTouch, creators of Deki, an open source enterprise collaboration platform, announced numerous new application and Web service extensions, tools, and features, largely contributed by the MindTouch open source developer community. These new extensions and tools make it easier for users to extend MindTouch Deki by enabling users to create and build mashups. MindTouch also introduces DekiMobile, a new iPhone interface that allows iPhone users to remotely access MindTouch Deki for access and sharing of data. MindTouch Deki allows users to connect teams, business applications, enterprise systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications. Users can create mashups and integrate popular applications by connecting internal and external applications using existing extensions and DekiScript apps created by MindTouch and its developer community. Writing new applications in MindTouch is done using DekiScript, a light weight programming language. Examples of recently introduced DekiScript apps: Collaborative Calendaring, Threaded Forums, Blogs, and Social Usage Statistics. http://mindtouch.com/

Traction Software announced Live Blog Technology for Traction TeamPage 4.0 is now available Now. Live Blog is a new plug-in for TeamPage 4.0 that's now a standard feature for all TeamPage configurations. The new Live Blog interface works like Twitter or IM. It creates an automatically updating browser window you can park on your desktop (or iPhone). You type a brief note and everyone with access to that Live Blog sees their window update in seconds. But unlike Twitter or IM, Live Blog is backed by Traction's TeamPage platform that provides scalable storage, security, integrated search and all of the other capabilities that make TeamPage the leading best platform for Enterprise 2.0. http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction

Socialtext released Socialtext 3.0, a trio of applications including Socialtext People and Socialtext Dashboard, as well as a major upgrade to its Socialtext Workspace enterprise wiki offering. These products are built on a modular and integrated platform that delivers connected collaboration with context to individuals, workgroups, organizations and extranet communities. People are able to discover, create, and utilize social networks, collaborate in shared workspaces, and work productively, with personalized widget-based dashboards. The company also announced Socialtext Signals, a Twitter-style microblogging interface that goes beyond simple "tweets" by integrating both automated and manual updates with social networking context, expanding the company's business communications offerings for the enterprise. As with its proven Workspace wiki and weblog product, Socialtext will make all of its offerings available on a hosted ASP as well as an on-premise appliance basis. The entire Socialtext 3.0 trio of products is available immediately on the hosted service, and will be made available to appliance customers starting in October 2008. Socialtext 3.0 profile integration with LDAP or Microsoft Active Directory systems enable rapid population. REST APIs for workspace and profile content are now complemented with a Widget architecture and user interface for the creation of enterprise mashups. Productized Connectors are available with Microsoft Sharepoint and IBM Lotus Connections. You can immediately experience this new release in a free trial at http://socialtext.com/.

TWIKI.NET, a provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced a new release of open source TWiki. TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for an SQL-like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications. This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun Fire T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Gateway System. http://www.twiki.org/

Traction Software announced TeamPage 4.0, the latest version of Traction's enterprise blog and wiki software. Traction TeamPage 4.0 delivers a combination of wiki, blog, tagging and social networking capabilities that extend Traction's hypertext platform to handle Enterprise 2.0 collaboration on: developing products, communicating with customers and sales partners, collaborating with key suppliers, tracking business issues, and competitive intelligence. New TeamPage 4.0 benefits include personal profile pages that provide enterprise social networking and gather content by author, page templates and forms to help new users get up and running very quickly, moderation to help to meet enterprise needs for content approval, wiki-style collaborative, work-in-progress editing that can maintain pages in draft state until they are ready to be shared with customers, partners or internal audiences, Page Name Management and name history that makes name linking across draft and published content simple for everyone, and "fearless refactoring" possible for wiki experts, lastly annual subscription pricing for TeamPage Server and TeamPage Workgroup configurations. http://traction.tractionsoftware.com

MindTouch announced the release of MindTouch Deki Wiki "Jay Cooke" v8.05, the latest version of its open source enterprise collaboration and integration platform. MindTouch Deki Wiki v8.05 includes finctions for internationalization/localization, search, user management, integrated scripting, automation, mash-ups, user experience and more. Specifically, this new release enhances multilingual content management. Deki Wiki v8.05 introduces a new polyglot feature that allows customers to host all languages as a single site. Now language can be specified by sections and pages automatically adapting the user interface of Deki Wiki to the appropriate language. Also, users may search across all languages and search results are prioritized by the user's default language. Lastly, Deki Wiki v8.05 supports OpenSearch. http://mindtouch.com

Socialtext announced that it has built upon its wiki foundation to launch a broad set of Business Social Software solutions. Two of them, Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People, extend the wiki platform for people to gain additional insight by managing their information, conversations and connections. Socialtext also launched four core Solution Areas. Socialtext version 3.0 includes Socialtext Dashboard, personalized and customizable dashboards of internal and external social software activity. Socialtext Dashboard supports third party widgets, and the OpenSocial gadget standard. Socialtext 3.0 also provides significant enhancements to its open APIs for enterprise integration. In addition, Socialtext 3.0 includes Socialtext People, social networking adapted for the enterprise. Throughout the Socialtext wiki, Profiles are made visible so at any time you can pivot to the people behind the content. Profiles and a user directory make it easy for colleagues to introduce themselves and discover implicit and explicit expertise. People can subscribe to the activity of colleagues. Groupings enable users to declare interest and expertise on their profile and other users profiles, making group forming as simple as adding a tag. The four core Solution Areas are: Collaborative Intelligence for sales and marketing, Participatory Knowledgebase for service and support, Flexible Client Collaboration for professional services, and Business Social Networks for partners and customers. The two new enhancements to Socialtext are currently in Beta and will be commercially available within a quarter. http://www.socialtext.com

BrightSide Software launched its beta version of Nuospace, a business wiki for everyone. Nuospace is a Web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaboration tool for small-midsize companies enabling team members to publish and share all forms of business content in a secure community environment. Nuospace is designed with technology beginners in mind as a simple alternative to corporate intranets and shared hard drives. Nuospace support not only only documents and comments, but also includes social content such as blogs and e-newsletters as individual wiki pages. Nuospace will launch in June 2008, and will be free up to 200 megabytes with an unlimited number of users. For added memory, Nuospace will cost $50 per month. Nuospace is a Web-based, software-as-a-service application with an installed server version coming this fall. The Nuospace beta is offered for free at http://go.nuospace.com

CustomerVision Announces BizWiki 4.1. The new version of CustomerVision BizWiki offers enhanced scalability and new customization features. Additional new Features in BizWiki 4.1 Include: Enhanced file sharing capabilities - Additional administrative options to support very large numbers of categories or topic areas; New Advanced Search options; Improved ability to customize online discussion areas; More granular user-access controls; Ability to fully customize all Page Tool options; And enhanced My Place features with private pages. Visit the CustomerVision website to sign up for a free RapidWiki or a personal demonstration. http://www.customervision.com