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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

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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

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Six Apart announced the commercial release of the Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS), a package of social media features built on top of the Movable Type 4 platform. The Movable Type Community Solution is a complete, out-of-the-box social media solution that enables the deployment of online communities. Site owners can now use Movable Type to power entire websites, including blogs, social communities, member profiles, forums, recommendations and ratings, content management, podcasts and rich media, under a unified management system. MTCS is a solution for media companies that want to power communities, encourage user-generated content, and manage web publishing from a single, scalable application. Advanced reporting and management tools designed for site administrators provide management of content and assets, permissions and user management, and fine-grained controls that allow site managers to develop and maintain a community. Designers can customize every part of the site's experience: templates and design, login and registration forms, email notifications, and user profiles. The Community Solution extends the Movable Type platform with advanced user registration with support for the OpenID authentication standard, member profiles for registered members which list all of a user's contributions to a site as well as customizable fields, ratings and recommendations to let your users promote their favorite content, member blogging, allowing any registered user to submit site content, and integrated commenting and profiles between forums, communities, and blogs. The Movable Type Community Solution is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish and may be purchased by contacting Six Apart. MTCS comes bundled with one year of support, which includes guaranteed response times, access to an account manager and support personnel, and all updates. http://www.movabletype.com/

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Percussion Software introduced its Community Marketing Solution, the latest in its Percussion 2.0 Solution Series. The Community Marketing Solution enables marketers to more easily leverage blogs, RSS feeds, external content feeds and user-generated content as part of their online marketing efforts, while delivering the kind of controls and accountability that marketing management requires. Percussion's Community Marketing Solution allows marketers to embrace the world of blogs, RSS feeds, social sites and user-generated content to achieve marketing goals, including increased customer loyalty, wider brand awareness, more effective lead generation and prospect qualification as well as improved sales lead conversion. The solution enables marketers to manage the balance between how much to embrace the unrestrained characteristics of the new social media, and how much to exert control by selecting, utilizing and processing only the best content and channels for any given initiative. It transforms almost any blog or external content source from a separate, isolated channel into a cohesive part of delivering a consistent, multi-channel customer experience, regardless of whether content is company, or customer-generated. The Percussion 2.0 Solution Series enables marketing and business professionals to buy packaged capabilities targeting specific line-of-business objectives for their customer-centric Web content managed by Percussion’s Rhythmyx WCM platform. http://www.percussion.com

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Traction Software announced the latest version of TeamPage, Traction's enterprise blog and wiki software. TeamPage 3.8 can now show the 'latest stable version' of wiki pages without inhibiting the ability to edit collaboratively and reach consensus, making it easier to follow compliance requirements and do blog-style communication in the same space and context as wiki-style page editing. Traction will introduce a forward linking feature set with full referential integrity, name aliasing and cross-wiki project name aliasing, all combined with page name history (in addition to page content history). TeamPage project spaces now support integrated blog and wiki style collaboration using a combined name space, or can enforce a wiki style unique name space in any or all projects. Authors can collaborate on changes over time without disturbing the "latest stable" view of the wiki. Page changes can be published later, when all the pages are ready, or have been reviewed and approved. Authors can see, search and review the combined effect of all drafts for collaboration, or flip back to see and use the latest stable view of all pages. New permissions allow control over who can publish drafts, edit drafts, read drafts and even lock pages. Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 will be available for preview use this month and will ship in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.tractionsoftware.com/

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Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTCQX:DYIHY) announced general availability of its new Web 2.0 collaboration solution. Part of Day's Communiqué family of products, Communiqué Advanced Collaboration (CQ AC) offers wiki, blog, and calendar functionality. Providing centralized management for social media and essential metadata information, CQ AC enables connectivity to social computing, social networking and user participation. By providing management through a central repository for all departments in the enterprise, CQ AC extends the value of rich media. The product also leverages Web 2.0 design features, such as an AJAX user interface. Fully integrated with Day's CQ Web Content Management, CQ AC leverages JSR 170. CQ AC Wiki offers easy editing via standard wiki syntax, version history and comparison and email notification for content changes. Material created within the wiki is immediately indexed and available for full-text search. CQ AC Blog provides easy creation of blogs and posts, a rich text editor for content editing and RSS support. CQ AC Calendar allows users to create event schedules, different views for time-based events, including calendar view and display of multiple event hierarchies. http://www.day.com

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Xythos Software announced Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite (EDMS) and Digital Locker Suite (DL) 7.0. The new software suites feature enhanced business process automation and interoperability features, as well as support for popular Web 2.0 social networking features such as Wiki's, blogs and content tagging. Xythos' enhanced JSR-170 Level 2 support enables organizations to centralize content and metadata from multiple applications in a common storage repository. Full specification interoperability also allows the Xythos system to become a repository of record which can read and write to and from other enterprise applications such as the enterprise ERP, human resources applications and learning management systems. Xythos has redesigned the Xythos EDMS 7.0 user interface to add a Web 2.0 functionality including Ajax right-click menus and customizable content and metadata views. Additional end-user focused features include: Ajax Based User Interface, Right-click menus, User-defined Layout, Desktop to Web Drag and Drop, Social Networking, Integrated Wiki, RSS integration, Complete historical record, Enhanced Search & Discovery Capabilities, Free-form File Tags, and Upgraded Search and Bookmarks. Xythos EDMS and DL 7.0 will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.xythos.com/

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FatWire Software announced that it has acquired Infostoria, a provider of Web 2.0 collaboration and content sharing tools for the enterprise. Infostoria's technology enables single-click wiki creation and blogging, and offers an advanced content integration platform to help organizations manage, find and securely share content stored in disparate repositories. http://fatwire.com, http://www.infostoria.com

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Percussion Software introduced its Percussion 2.0 Solution Series which enables marketing and business professionals to buy packaged capabilities targeting specific line-of-business objectives for their customer-centric Web content managed by Percussion's Rhythmyx platform. The Solution Series is designed to automate on-line marketing functions, which now extend not only to Web sites and email, but also blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, new mobile apps and social networking. The Percussion 2.0 Solution Series maintains and consistently delivers branding and content across multiple channels. The first two offerings in the new 2.0 Series are the Blog Integration Solution and WebTrends Analytics Integration Solution. The Percussion 2.0 Solutions for Web Analytics and Blogging will be available this month and support Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms. Percussion's WebTrends Analytics Integration Solution provides a way to track the behaviors of targeted audiences, measure the effectiveness of campaigns, and learn the channels and sites that Web users prefer. Percussion's WebTrends Analytics Solution provides the ability to understand Web usage data in the context of a Web site’s content and structure. Then it can be linked back to the content management system, so that WCM users can take action by modifying the site using the data to enhance the experience of Web site visitors. The Rhythmyx Blog Integration Solution transforms almost any blog from a separate, isolated channel into a cohesive part of delivering a comprehensive, multi-channel customer experience. http://www.percussion.com

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NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced the general availability of NewsGator Social Sites, an add-on to the NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES) that enhances the social computing capabilities for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. NewsGator Social Sites enables discovery of what colleagues within an organization are doing and making connections between people. NewsGator Social Sites is a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and infrastructure that integrates directly with SharePoint Server 2007's existing architecture and security models. Social Sites works in conjunction with NGES to make SharePoint 2007 an Enterprise 2.0 destination. Administrators can bring in RSS feeds from outside of SharePoint Server 2007. Users can mark items as read, filter by tags and subscribe to the underlying feeds with one click. With one-click subscriptions for all SharePoint Server 2007 feeds, users can keep up with updates or changes from their desktop, e-mail client or mobile device. The "Social Sites" rollup view also facilitates content discovery in SharePoint by showing the most active users as well as "colleagues," allowing users to quickly assess the most popular content, feed trends and tag clouds. By clicking on a link for the content author or tagger, the user sees an in-line profile with their contact information, blog and wiki entries, articles and feeds that they read, tag and recommend. NewsGator Social Sites 1.1 is currently available. http://www.newsgator.com

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Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced new offerings providing "Web 2.0" capabilities integrated into the company's RedDot Web Content Management suite. RedDot now makes the integration of interactive applications and Web 2.0 functions possible in all Web-enabled media with new modules for Web 2.0. RedDot allows organizations to expand their Web initiatives to include blogs, forums, wikis, comment fields, and ratings by selecting files or images and incorporating these applications into the Web site. Editors can initiate discussions in an intranet setting, or write an editorial entry, attach documents, and expand it with a forum or blog. Specific user groups can be easily granted "read" and "write" authorization. Components can be easily reused for multiple Web projects. http://www.opentext.com/

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Six Apart announced the commercial release of the Movable Type Enterprise Solution (MTES), a package of enterprise-grade features and support that extends the functionality of the Movable Type platform. MTES is built upon Movable Type 4. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution announced is the successor to Movable Type Enterprise and enables companies to set up, deploy, and manage thousands of blogs and blog networks throughout an organization. MTES also enables large-scale content management and community capabilities. It introduces "web 2.0" elements to the enterprise such as tagging and blogging from the iPhone or other mobile devices, and also includes support for the OpenID single sign-on protocol, and provides integration with enterprise-grade databases and directory services. Movable Type Enterprise Solution is also a social media platform that lets enterprises scale deployments from small, one-off departmental initiatives into strategic global enterprise deployments. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution includes LDAP directory support, connecting Movable Type to a variety of LDAP-compliant directory servers such as Active Directory, OpenLDAP, iPlanet, and others. Support for Oracle 10g the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is also included in the Enterprise Solution, extending existing support for MySQL and PosgreSQL databases that is built into the Movable Type platform. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish. MTES comes with priority support, which includes guaranteed response times, access to an account manager and support personnel, and all updates. http://www.movabletype.com/

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Movable Type announced the releases of Movable Type 4.0. "This is the biggest release of MT ever, a complete redesign of both the front end information architecture and the back end scaling infrastructure." Movable Type 4 has a broad set of new capabilities, including: a completely redesigned user interface, more and better plugins, built in support for OpenID, community features, ability to aggregate content from multiple blogs, new support for standalone pages in addition to blog entries, "content management" features, smarter archiving (e.g., by author), more robust templates, and more. They also announced an upcoming open source version. http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2007/08/presenting-movable-type-40.html, http://www.movabletype.com/

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iUpload announced a new company name, the "Summer 2007" release of its enterprise social media platform, a new round of venture financing and several additions to its executive leadership team. iUpload changed its company name to Awareness to reflect the business value that customers get from using its on demand social media platform. By creating online communities that connect employees, customers, prospects and partners, enterprises gain a greater awareness of the needs and desires of its constituencies. Awareness addresses the needs of the three key audiences of any enterprise Web 2.0 initiative - the community members, the community administrators and the IT department - with a uniform architecture for all user-generated content. The Summer 2007 release provides increased participation options for community members, more robust administrative controls for community administrators and increased performance and reliability. http://www.awarenessnetworks.com/

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Six Apart announced new solutions that will enable businesses to build social media and blogging communities on top of Movable Type 4. The Movable Type Enterprise Solution enables companies to integrate their blogging and social media efforts into their existing IT systems. Expanding on Movable Type 4's built-in capability to create and manage thousands of blogs and users, the Enterprise Solution's LDAP directory server integration and support for enterprise-class databases, including Oracle 10g and Microsoft SQL Server, make it easier to deploy and manage employee and departmental blogs. The Movable Type Community Solution makes it possible to create a custom social media platform that can attract larger audiences, increase audience engagement, and improve loyalty. Where Movable Type 4 on its own allows for registering and managing site members, the Community Solution incorporates rich member profiles, member blogs, "Digg-style" recommendation tools and other features that help new and returning visitors engage with the site and one another. These are the first two solutions announced for the new Movable Type 4 platform, which contains a component architecture with the ability to add large packs of functionality on top of a core platform. More solutions will be announced later in the year. The Community Solution and Enterprise Solution will be available with the release of Movable Type 4 in Q3. http://www.sixapart.com/

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Six Apart announced the beta release of Movable Type 4, a blogging platform designed to meet the website content management needs of growing organizations and to serve as a social media platform that enables businesses to create community-driven websites. This announcement marks the first of a series of new products, features, and services around Six Apart's blogging platform that will be unveiled throughout the summer. Six Apart also announced the inauguration of the Movable Type Open Source Project, an initiative that will culminate in the release of an open source version of Movable Type in Q3 of this year. MT4 includes more than 50 new features, and is a social media platform that allows users to turn their audiences into communities. Readers can become members of a website through Movable Type's community management features, with rights to post alongside authors. New content and asset management tools make uploading and revising photos, documents, and videos easier. Users can create standalone web pages that automatically inherit the design of the blog, to ensure the entire site has a consistent look and feel. Developers and customers can download a beta version of Movable Type 4.0, and are encouraged to provide feedback at the beta community website at the same URL. Personal use of Movable Type continues to be free, with no restrictions placed upon the number of blogs or authors. Personal use customers have the option to purchase support separately if needed. Commercial, Education, and Non-Profit licenses for the current version of Movable Type, MT3.35, will include a discounted upgrade to MT4.0 during the beta period. Existing users may buy upgrades to MT4.0 at a pre-release discount. Enterprise customers should contact their Account Manager.
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Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN) announced the worldwide availability of its latest Vignette Collaboration release. A key component of Vignette's Web solution, Vignette Collaboration promotes online communities, user-generated content and social networking applications to capture, share and reuse information across disparate geographic and organizational boundaries. Vignette Collaboration provides a level of transparency into each phase of an organization's collaborative business process. Knowledge-centric applications capture, organize and facilitate information sharing and reuse at a global enterprise level. The latest software release also incorporates "Web 2.0" features such as user-generated content and social networking to facilitate rich content creation and keep users connected. Additional Vignette Collaboration features include: Blog, RSS and wiki support, "Configure and Go" business processes applied to team workspaces, Integration with Vignette Portal and Vignette Content Management for collaborative Web site publishing, and Rich text editing capabilities. http://www.vignette.com

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Squarespace, a subscription-based solution for managing websites and blogs together in the same platform, has released version 4.0 of its publishing software. Along with improvements to site architecture and enhancements to bandwidth and storage, five features have been added to provide users with more options for creating a professional and dynamic web presence. Bloggers will have access to a search function that operates across all of a website’s content types, including blog posts, discussion forums, FAQs, photo galleries and standard webpages. Squarespace search can also operate on protected areas of a site and index content as soon as it is published. Users can create online forms, allowing users to address the difficult problem of capturing and analyzing data from their customer base. Website owners can use Squarespace's new FAQ component. Publish questions and answers in a search engine friendly format that is as easy to manage as a blog post. Webmasters and bloggers alike are now able to host a discussion forum within Squarespace just as they would a photo gallery or guestbook. Users can add Google Maps to their site and highlight the location of offices, meetups or other events for their readers. Hosting packages range from $7 to $65 per month, and are available for individuals or businesses. Enterprise users can also take advantage of Squarespace's customized support and bandwidth plans for $175 per month. http://www.squarespace.com

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eTouch Systems announced the release of SamePage 3.2, the latest enhancement of its enterprise-grade wiki offering. eTouch augmented SamePage 3.2 with additional features and functionality to enable business users to more effectively support, streamline and manage their collaboration and communication activities. SamePage provides business users a wide range of functionality to create blogs, forums and mashups. New features have been added to the SamePage 3.2 enterprise wiki solution: Favorite projects to advance users ability to personalize and organize projects content; Watchlists with alerts to inform users about relevant changes to pages; Advanced search improvements to quickly find information by narrowing down the scope the search by project workspace, type of content, author or date modified; Additional plug-ins for YouTube and GoogleMaps enable enterprise users to quickly create mashups that can leverage external Web 2.0 service offerings; Improved use of templates to create any type of content, e.g. discussion and forum threads; and Single Sign On (SSO) support is available out-of-the box. The SamePage enterprise wiki also comes with role-based security with fine-grained access controls at the page-level to manage what users can do. SamePage has clustering support out-of-the-box, and integrates with existing enterprise infrastructure leveraging built-in LDAP adapters and SSO support. http://www.etouch.net

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