Social Computing and Suites

IBM and Microsoft are moving rapidly to integrate the most popular elements of social computing into single integrated product suites.
Of the two, IBM has the most impressive effort to-date with Lotus Connections, which runs on WAS. This suite is centered on a Facebook style person profile which propagates itself as a corporate directory.
Tagging is well supported as is a rather good social book marking facility inherited from IBM’s internal Dogear program.
There is also good integrated support for blogging, and integrated with another product: Lotus Quickr , a wiki is alsa available.
 

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