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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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PaperThin, Inc. announced the release of CommonSpot Version 5.0. This latest release introduces a new authoring interface; RSS feeds, Blogs, and Wikis; and XML publishing and rendering capabilities. Business users can now get their message out by delivering content to any news reader, Web browser, or email program as an RSS, Atom, or Podcast feed without writing any code. Users can also create live bookmarks on a page so visitors can subscribe to feeds of interest through CommonSpot's Feed Index Element. The listing is automatically generated, displayed, and updated based on filtered metadata criteria. With this release PaperThin has made available four open source applications: a Blog, Wiki, RSS Reader and multi-view Events Calendar, each built using the Custom Application Development Framework. The browser-based rich text editor includes enhanced editing features, wide browser and platform compatibility, improved standards-based support, and Microsoft Word-like toolbars. New image editing functionality allows users to easily edit and manage digital assets, such as: images, photos, and other graphics directly within the system. http://www.paperthin.com

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Xythos Software announced updates to Xythos on Demand, the company's software as a service (SaaS) offering for SMB's and departments of larger organizations. The new features are designed to help organizations better access and share content on the Web using "Web 2.0" technologies such as Ajax, and offer support for Wiki's and social tagging for improved contextual collaboration. Integrated Wiki support also provides a dynamic view of content stored in the service as well as discussions which occur around it. Xythos on Demand delivers advanced Web collaboration features directly from the desktop including offline file access and synchronization. Xythos on Demand 2.0 is available for trial or purchase today. Xythos also announced versions 7.0 of its Digital Locker and Enterprise Document Management Suites which will be available by the end of this year. Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite 7.0 introduces an enhanced workflow module for business process automation in addition to the Web 2.0 collaboration enhancements now available in Xythos on Demand 2.0. http://www.xythos.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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Atlassian announced the integration of Microsoft (MSFT) Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Atlassian Confluence enterprise wiki. Users of SharePoint and Confluence will be able to access and share content across these two technologies. The connector will feature: Search -users can search SharePoint and Confluence content together from one place; Content sharing - from within SharePoint, users can embed Confluence page contents allowing users to blend content; Linking - within Confluence, users can access SharePoint document facilities so users, in a single click, can edit Microsoft Office documents, and; Single Sign-On and Security - with one login, users can access both systems while seeing only what they have permission to view. The SharePoint Connector for Confluence is available now at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint

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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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Teragram announced the launch of MyGADs Enterprise Edition, a collaborative technology that allows corporate users to work together on a unique, searchable "wiki" to share information among groups and retrieve data through multiple formats. Additionally, Teragram's Direct Answers technology allows members of the group to search the stored information, returning the answer a user is seeking. For example, if one asks, "What is Bob's cell phone number?," MyGADs will search the user's pages and return the actual number. This search and retrieve capability works not only from an Internet browser, but also from mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, as well as through common IM services. A group of users can create a GAD page using a simple Web editor within MyGADs.com, and access, edit, update, search for and share documents through Internet browsers, smartphones, mobile PDAs, J2ME-enabled devices and cell phones. Much like the consumer version of MyGADs.com, launched in March 2007, MyGADs Enterprise Edition allows users to query the information they store, using a personalized question-answering search engine. As opposed to traditional search, where a user receives a set of links as a result of a search query, Direct Answers returns a simple answer. In addition to processing information stored in a GAD, Direct Answers technology can also connect to third-party applications such as enterprise databases, enterprise search engines, Microsoft Exchange Server and more. http://www.teragram.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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Mindquarry, an Open Source collaborative software developer, released its revamped edition of Mindquarry Version 1.1. The new platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing is now av