Team Collaboration

• Traction TeamPage5 for Free … Traction Software released a free 5-person and 5-project edition of TeamPage, its enterprise blog and wiki platform. “The TeamPage5 product provides the full functionality of the TeamPage Server but is limited to five login accounts and five projects (blog / wiki spaces). The license can be used for publicly facing or internal websites. Each project can be configured to allow anyone to read, comment or subscribe to RSS feeds. TeamPage5 is free for commercial or non-commercial use. TeamPage5 customers may download software and access online support through Traction Software’s hosted Forum project and knowledge base (registration required), or they may purchase a $1K support contract.” Available immediately, for multiple platforms. MarketWire
• Microsoft “Tahiti” … Microsoft released some details about a forthcoming screen and document sharing tool, code-named “Tahiti”. It works with Windows Live Messenger and Office Communications Server. Aimed at users and groups that are not on the same network. Includes desktop, application and document sharing, user-aligned colors for contributions, and support for up to 15 participants per sharing session. It’s currently in pre-beta, but the beta release is expected in April. Tahiti from Microsoft, with analysis at arstechnica, InformationWeek and ZDNet. See Labnol for a couple of screen shots.
• GroupAbout for Travel Groups … Group Travel Planet launched GroupAbout.com, a community site for groups that combines travel bookings with social networking and collaboration. The social side enables users to post upcoming trip information, conduct surveys on future trips, post blog items, invite new users, and more. Available immediately. eNewsChannels
• GWAVACon GroupWise Conference = Free … GWAVA announced that its 2007 GWAVACon Conferences on GroupWise has a zero-rated attendence fee. “GWAVACon is the GroupWise 7 training conference sponsored by GWAVA, held annually in the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Leading GroupWise experts from Novell and the industry along with 3rd party vendors join GWAVA to offer attendees the most up-to-date information regarding Novell GroupWise.” Digital50
• Wiki for Technical Documentation … Lars advocates that wikis are ideal for “drafting documents, creating content outlines and collecting resources before writing technical documentation” but not for actually writing the documentation. He suggests that you need better and more appropriate tools for that. Lars Trieloff

Mobility

• Funambol Study on Mobile Email … Funambol released a report on its recent 500-person study on mobile email. “Previous studies have reported that consumers want mobile email but are not willing to pay much for it. Funambol’s survey found that consumers indeed want mobile email, and that the majority is willing to pay for it, on average about $5 per month. Furthermore, many will be making the move to adopt it within the year. Consumers also indicated that they are looking for mobile email that is easy-to-use and that seamlessly interoperates with their web and PC email systems.” Registration required to get the free report. Funambol (PDF)
• Qtel Goes Visto … Visto announced a new telecoms customer: Qtel Telecom in the Middle East. “Qtel’s Mobile Email service provides busy mobile professionals with a choice of 27 mobile handsets with which to send and receive email on the move, access and update their desktop calendar, and search their contacts – safely and securely, and without having to make any adjustments to the corporate firewall. The new Qtel mobile email service is already available on Symbian-powered UIQ, Nokia Series 60 and Series 80 devices, and also Pocket PCs and Smartphones that use Windows Mobile, with more handsets to be launched in the near future.” Visto

Knowledge Management

• Inxight SmartDiscovery Metadata Management System … Inxight Software released the SmartDiscovery Metadata Management System, for the review, cleansing and augmentation of metadata for electronic text. “The Inxight SmartDiscovery Metadata Management System is the first enterprise-class data integration platform designed specifically for the collection, exploration and cleansing of data derived from unstructured sources. It provides data quality assurance – the ability to profile data to discover inconsistencies and other anomalies and perform data cleansing activities (detecting, correcting or removing inaccurate records) – to improve data quality. By preprocessing data in this way, users can guarantee that it is unambiguous, correct and complete for use in downstream operations.” Includes three modules: (1) a connector, (2) a repository, and (3) an editor. Available immediately. Inxight