Example of enterprise social networking
In June Peter Reiser blogged about a Social Networking application developed by Sun's Customer Engineering group in Community equity - a way to measure Social Capital for an enterprise. This past week at Sun's Customer Engineering Conference in Vegas (tag: cec2007), the application went live for the 4,000 conference attendees. Check out Peter's latest blog Community equity in action for the details and some screen-shots like this:
<img src="http://blogs.sun.com/peterreiser/resource/200710130254-tm.jpg" alt="screenshot of Community Equity" />
For more recent posts about enterprise social networking, check Ed Cone's CIO Insight article Social Networks at Work Promise Bottom-Line Results and Brian Russell's post on the same topic.
IBM getting into open source project hosting?
ZDNet - IBM forging developerWorks: IBM is quietly transforming its developerWorks site into something more like Sourceforge, with more public-facing features aimed at expanding its reach to all open source developers.
I haven't heard about this one before. The quote is from an ZDNet blog post about IBM striking deals with Krugle and Koders, open source code search/annotation engines.