There was a great post yesterday on
ZDNet about Socialtext. The killer quote was:
“Businesses look for solutions and that’s what SocialText is in the business of providing,” says Mr Lee. SocialText was the first commercial provider of wikis, which are group editable documents, similar to the popular Wikipedia. But SocialText has gone way beyond the wiki, so far beyond that maybe wiki is no longer needed as a term. I would describe SocialText as providing a social business application suite, especially with some of the new stuff coming out (which I can’t talk about just yet.)
Collaborative applications is another way to describe social business applications, but even here, the language doesn’t do justice to describing the potential business benefits of a consumer IT type approach to the enterprise.
It is cool to be part of something getting this kind of attention. More to come soon.
