Social Glass

Avenue A Razorfish was one of the first companies credited with attempting Enterprise 2.0. They based their solution on mediawiki and made modifications to the codebase for Wordpress and Active Directory integration (AD integration is a great way to avoid the hassle of registering users manually). They also encouraged their employees to use a certain tag on delicious when bookmarking links. The solution then automatically presented newly bookmarked items on the home page by invoking a delicious API to retrieve all bookmarks tagged with that tag.

Avenue A Razorfish is now evolving their wiki to include more features. I’d like to direct you to their blog post which contains an embedded slideshare presentation that explains their approach. They’ve definitely got some great ideas.

SocialText has released SocialText Open pre-installed on a Virtual Machine.  Checkout the download page here, and Social Text’s release here.  I’m currently downloading the 460MB VM.

This is a great move for SocialText as their opensource version is difficult to install on its own.  The Virtual Machine will certainly make it easier to evaluate SocialText Open or even use it for small groups and projects.