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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

EditGrid, the online spreadsheet, is now available to customers that use the hosted versions of Confluence, the enterprise wiki from Atlassian. The EditGrid Plugin for Confluence allows for real-time collaboration of spreadsheets within Confluence Hosted or Confluence Enterprise Hosting. With EditGrid, users can create or insert spreadsheets into Confluence pages. They can also edit the spreadsheet collaboratively. The resulting spreadsheet is saved as an attachment within the Confluence pages in Microsoft Excel format, allowing Confluence to manage the revision history. Some of the features of the EditGrid plugin include: Real-time updates - allows multiple users to see dynamic changes to a spreadsheet; Remote data update - retrieves live financial data on the Web and stores it in a spreadsheet; Import and export: accepts file formats such as Microsoft Excel, CSV, HTML, Gnumeric, Lotus, OpenOffice and assigns fine-grained access control; and Live chat - enables multiple users to discuss changes from within EditGrid, no need to switch to another chat application. EditGrid is free for Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers, and it is available starting today. For more information please visit, http://www.atlassian.com, http://www.editgrid.com

Silicon Space, LLC announced its SocialSpace Business-to-Business (B-to-B) social networking solution. Optimized for enterprise environments, the SocialSpace solution provides the services and expertise required to bring a social network community to market. SocialSpace combines content management and infrastructure services with Silicon Space's technical platform and expertise in software development. With the SocialSpace platform, Silicon Space partners with enterprises to develop a tailored B-to-B social networking solution based on a detailed analysis of their business model. Based on this analysis, SocialSpace deploys its technical platform, along with the launch marketing, moderation services, and long-term management of the community to ensure member engagement. SocialSpace is a complete solution that offers enterprises a way to deploy a social network for their end-users. The Silicon Space SocialSpace solution will be available Q1 2008, with pricing based on a usage model. http://www.socialspaceinc.com

FatWire Software announced the launch of FatWire TeamUp, a new solution that offers enterprise 2.0 collaboration capabilities including wikis, blogs and social tagging, plus an advanced content integration platform. FatWire also unveiled its strategic roadmap for Web Experience Management, an integrated set of capabilities that enable organizations to deliver a personalized, interactive web experience to users. FatWire TeamUp is a solution for facilitating internal and external, enterprise collaboration and is the result of FatWire's recent acquisition of Infostoria. FatWire TeamUp enables non-technical users with a single click to set up a wiki, blogs, invite participants from within the enterprise or partner organizations to join, and start working together and sharing content of all types. It facilitates user-generated content and community-building among customers and other site visitors. Site owners can enable blogs, wikis, and content tagging on any part of the site. TeamUp also includes Content integration and reuse, and Digital asset management capabilities. FatWire also unveiled a roadmap for rapid integration of FatWire TeamUp with FatWire Content Server, their web content management solution. http://www.fatwire.com