Digital Collaboration / Social Computing guide, a SharePoint Architect's view

SharePoint 2010 is coming straight ahead and we only need to wait a little over two months before the next version of SharePoint officially comes out.

As posted on Microsoft site:

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST.

The live keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers:

End user productivity across the PC, phone and browser
IT choice and flexibility
A platform for developers to build innovative solutions

Join the virtual launch event with Microsoft executives, product developers, partners and customers to:

This list is great, TheStandard has listed 16 free software tools for you to download and improve your productivity around collaboration. I have yet to go through the list, but when I do, I would update and review each one of them.

16 No-Cost Tools to Improve Productivity, Collaboration

Google Wave is an integral part of Google’s digital collaboration offerings which they have launched last year with much flare and interest. Google Wave is not yet available to the public and selected invites were sent for developers and users to try them out.

Since last year, Google Wave’s popularity continued to plummet and the only update from that corner is version 2 of their robots API.

Foursquare is definitely making waves and its location based technology is great for connecting and extended for collaboration among nearby folks.

Did Microsoft get SharePoint right the first time around?

That’s a question going through my mind right now after reading an article over at ZDNet where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered in an interview that Google did it right first. The interview done was during the Search Engine Marketing Expo in Silicon Valley. In Steve Ballmer’s answer: “The Number One thing that Google benefits from in search is that they did it right first. There’s a value to incumbency. But that’s not to say that Bing can’t catch up and even hit profitability with search. And the companies have certainly picked up the pace of innovation. But there’s still really a lot of work to do.”

I am reading an article over at SFGate about the boost that Enterprise 2.0 is getting. According to the writer, Shane O’Neill, he feels that Enterprise 2.0 is not just a catchphrase but the integration of social networking software in the enterprise is seeing bigger and greater adoption.

He note that cultural clashes have diminished because of the stronger demand for integration of social tools in the workplace—”
Workers, particularly younger ones, are demanding that the social tools they use via Facebook and Twitter spill over into the workplace. In addition, the cultural clashes that once prevented senior management from adopting social tools are waning.”

This is a video on making a quick launch bar in Windows 7.

Video description

The one thing I hate about windows 7 is the lack of the quick launch bar. I tried other bars like rocketbar and such but it just wasn’t the same. Then at work one day I came up with this great idea. check it out.

Asus has announced their latest version of their revolutionary netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1000HE. The current introductory prices is at $399 USD.

As of their press release:

Asus Eee PC 1000HE are devices to support Lenovo S10.

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