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February 08, 2005
Socialtext moves closer to the enterprise
Yesterday, Socialtext released version 1.5 of their Workspace and Appliance offerings. The new version offers some interesting new functionality such as integration with LDAP directories (a must have in companies I talk to) and the possibility to integrate Web services such as Google. One addition I found intriguing is this:
Beyond leveraging web services such as RSS and Technorati, Socialtext 1.5 supports tag links, a new, web-wide mechanism to aggregate tags from weblogs and social software services like Socialtext, Flickr and del.icio.us. Tag links build emergent value out of millions of independent acts of categorization. Tagging, or Folksonomy represents an alternative and complement to traditional enterprise rigid ontology. When designed to support social incentives for classification, the relative cost and speed benefits are substantial for projects where user adoption and participation is critical.
So, from this description (I haven't tried this out) it would seem that you can use Socialtext to aggregate information from the given sources based on how it is tagged. However, I think that in order to get corporations to be interested in and use this type of function you would need to access tagged data inside the enterprise itself. Which means version 2.0 will surely be able to do this. Right guys :-)?
Posted by Matthew at February 8, 2005 08:40 PM
Comments
To clarify, supporting Tags and Technorati in 1.5 means two things:
* Including a Technorati cosmos in a page
* Pinging Technorati when there is an update to a public space and revealing Categories as tags for them (and others).
Posted by: Ross Mayfield at February 8, 2005 10:27 PM