Socialtext Appliance … Socialtext released an appliance edition of Signals, its micro-blogging product. “Socialtext Microblogging Appliance provides security and control in a cost-contained package. It gives IT the option of deploying secure microblogging and social networking company-wide, right away …. Users can access Socialtext from a browser, and they can also use the free Socialtext Desktop application. Socialtext Desktop is a dynamic application built on Adobe AIR technology, a rich internet application that works across all desktop platforms: Windows, Macintosh and Linux.” More, review at CIO

Elguji IQJam … Elguji launched IQJam, a collaborative question asking and answering product. “Elguji Software, the creators of IdeaJam have just launched IQJam a new social space where users can ask, answer, tag, and rate questions. IQJam is a nice tool for those that want to capitalize on the knowledge of their employees. The concept is amazingly simple – people ask questions and other people answer them (think of streamlined, lightweight forums).” Available immediately. More

Other Items
– Craig offers his summary of SharePoint 2010, based on the recently released videos from Microsoft.
– Om says that email is still central in a social web (mainly for notifications and alerts).
– Dion talks about the top 10 issues is adopting enterprise social computing, eg, #1 is lack of literacy about what social media even is.
– Can you cut down to 100 things?
– RIM released a new BlackBerry, the Curve 8520.