Author Archives: Thomas Purves

Facebook opened itself up to non-academic emails a few months ago. And then suddenly, all in the last week, and in a blizzard of add-friend requests, my friends have discovered facebook. Finally we can see what all the kids have … Continue reading →

Near-Time is an Enterprise 2.0 suite that allows an enterprise or group to collaboratively maintain a shared intranet or extranet. Near time’s focus is definitely in the wiki school of Enterprise 2.0 – or sortof a wiki in disguise. They’re very much about collaborative editing of “static” content and pages as opposed serialized or conversational school like blogs or message threads. They also have features for document sharing, basic calendaring and, coming soon Reid tells me, task management. In their own words:

“Near-Time leverages the new Web to deliver seamless collaboration. Near-Time delivers a private and secure collaboration service for groups to share ideas, information, files and calendars. By integrating weblogs and wikis, Near-Time transforms work into knowledge.”

– Near-Time.com

Now in the wild for few years and with a “few thousand” active (presumably many paying) customers, what can Reid teach us about deploying Enterprise 2.0 in practice? Read on… Continue reading →

This album is powered by BubbleShare – Add to my blog As widely reported in the community (and techcrunch), Bubbleshare has been acquired. It was only a matter of time. I have the utmost respect for Albert and it’s great … Continue reading →