By Antonio Chagoury on Monday, October 22, 2007

"Microsoft is unveiling a series of upgrades and additions to SharePoint that it believes will appeal to business users as well as to individual consumers."

This is a direct result of the recent Microsoft announcement of the strategic alliance with Atlassian and NewsGator.

Atlassian's Confluence product is making its way into the SharePoint's stack by way of a plug-in. This plug-in allows information to be shared between the Confluence Wiki application and SharePoint.
A beta version of the plug-in is available here.

NewsGator's Social Sites product built specifically for SharePoint will add more functionality such as an improved RSS Reader, Feed Manager, Tagging and other Web 2.0 and social networking widg ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on Sunday, September 30, 2007

As it turns out, technology adoption is directly related to the user's experience.

 

Ben Gardner agrees. Ben works for a large blue chip pharmaceutical company in the UK.  Ben has a very difficult job as he is responsbile for getting corporate users to adopt Windows Sharepoint Services.

He made an interesting post where he says:

If I'm going to have to promote SharePoint in my organisation then this sort of skin job would be a god send. I realise that out of the box SharePoint can already do most of this but this re ... Read More »

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By Antonio Chagoury on Wednesday, February 07, 2007

BT Tradespace Beta Now Available

British Telecom and SMBLive yesterday released the public beta of BT Tradespace (www.bttradespace.com). With BT Tradespace, small businesses can use the power of social media to promote themselves online, and can communicate with prospects and customers through blogging, podcasting, click-to-call, and text messaging.

The Latest Example of SaaS Innovation for Broadband Service Providers...

BT Tradespace is the latest example of how SMBLive continues to develop channel-ready Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools designed to help millions of small businesses work more effectively, attract more customers, and grow revenue -- with absolutely zero IT required.

Other examples of SMBLive products include BT Workspace (www.btworkspace.com) and TELUS ePoint (www.telus.com/epoint).

A ... Read More »

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By Antonio Chagoury on Monday, January 29, 2007

Do you own a CentralDesktop Workspace account?
If you do, then you should seriously reconsider your options!
If you do not, then read on and judge for yourself whether or not you should become their customer.

I was in the midst of evaluating CentralDesktop's document library when I stumbled upon the fact that any document I upload on that library is accessible by anyone. And by "anyone", I mean just that. You do not have to be authenticated to see this file, do ya? No kidding, the file you just saw is on my Company's Document Library on CentralDesktop (here is the actual url: http://www.centraldesktop.com/home/viewfile ... Read More »