Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd: News for Today, May 19

Shared Spaced updates…there is some great stuff here. In fact I have a post in the works on Five Across' IM client. Calligator (what is it with the 'gator applications…Newsgator, Calligator…) looks interesting in the telephony arena. I'm going to take a look at that. Late summer seems to be the time for new software…

Short article on some thoughts on Supernova 2004. Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis. [eWEEK.com Messaging and Collaboration]

This is part of an excellent article that anyone thinking about collaboration space should read. Bottom line, Microsoft is currently missing the boat and paddling madly to get in the race. The author mentions SharePoint, LiveMeeting (aka PlaceWare) Outlook, NetMeeting, and Groove as parts of a Microsoft collaboration portfolio, but they are just that…parts. For…

This is good commentary on the Weblogs closure. I heard about it from a friend while I was on the road and connectivity challenged. I can't imagine the stress Dave must have been under. The man is a true visionary in the scripting world. This blog is “Blogger Powered” but physically hosted on my site…

Update from today's Shared Spaces briefing… Today's highlights: Near-Time Flow 1.0.1; Macromedia Contribute 3 and the Web Publishing System; META Group on LCS 2005; Parlano and xtendx; Gordano GMS 10; Winfessor SoapBox Framework 1.9; BrokerTalk; Market readiness for collaborative workspaces; Near-Time is working towards the release of Version 1.0.1 of Near-Time Flow, its peer-to-peer collaborative…

From Contentious…two Canadian goverment sites are winners the National Research Council and the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Beyond the Canadian pride in this, later in Amy's article she lists the points that the Nielsen Norman Group cites as Intranet best practices. Some of these have been published else where as well. Government Intranets:…