It looks like the commercial team behind MediaWiki is adding some elements of Social Networking to their product to create Wikia. It is a hosted solution (what’s with the developments for hosted wikis this weekend?) so I don’t know how easy it will be for plugins to go to MediaWiki and a quick Google search…
There is beta of PBWiki 2.0 that is accepting applicants. You can see the features here and if they all work out, this could become quite the powerful content management system as it will be able to control access down to the page. I’m not sure how this will relate to SharePoint or similar systems,…
When this shows up, it it supposed to be better than Google Sky.
You’ve gotta respect the people who walk the walk and talk the talk. One of these groups is the New Media Consortium (at least at first blush). They have taken their Horizon 2008 report and dumped it into Comment Press to make it a living and interactive document. They see collaboration technologies as one of…
Leave it to Freakonomics to find these people and have them look into some of the effects of Social Networking. Stephan asked: Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? Of Martin Baily, Danah Boyd, Steve Chazin,…