Collaboration 2.0 and Enterprise Social Networking

Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm that recently purchased a 2% preferred stock stake in the Facebook social media company is looking to acquire an additional $100 million in common stock shares. The $200 million agreement in May of this year valued Facebook at approximately $10 billion.

Happy Follow Friday! Welcome to another edition of Twitter Ten on 10. If you understand what real-time is all about then you are probably already on Twitter, if not we need to have a chat. Top executives, marketers, entrepreneurs, technologists and more are tweeting out knowledge, ideas and news every second and if you blink you might miss it!

Potentially bad news for smaller image sharing apps such as Twitpic and Posterous as Flickr (finally) adds a new feature which allows users to tweet their photos. Also this week Twitter modifies their user interface to give us more control of who we follow and who follows us.

Facebook is a sharing and social networking platform that is constantly in development. Recent and upcoming changes are focused on reflecting three basic principles in which Facebook grounds effective privacy for it's users. Control over who we share information with and Simplicity in use allows us to effectively create the Connections we desire.

An effort to give smartphones a more integral role in business communications will expand collaborative features for WebEx users. Announced at the Cisco Live conference this week, new features planned for the third quarter of next year include…

If you haven't been living under a rock recently you are well aware of Microsoft's latest foray into the search market with Bing. The latest buzz word in Web search is "real-time" lead by the constant flow of 140 character posts from the Twitter platform. Many companies have been attempting to...

Since the dawn of the World Wide Web as a communications network for bringing the masses online there have been spammers, hackers, and identity thieves proliferating in the dark corners of the Internet. Dishonesty has been around since the evolution of man so shunning the Internet because of security risks is silly...

Facebook board member Marc Andreessen in a Reuters interview stated that he anticipates the social networking giant to reach $500 million in 2009 and billions more in five years. "There's every reason to expect in my view that the thing can be doing billions in revenue five years from now," Andreessen said.

Google Chrome OS, a lightweight open source operating system touting speed, simplicity and security as the key aspects.

The latest from productivity application developers Zoho is Projects 2.0, an online project and team collaboration suite. On top of standard project management tools such as reports and scheduling, Zoho enhances it's offering by integrating popular Web 2.0 features. Here is what you can expect to see in this release…

Twitter rolls out a stylish new homepage this week and is finally promoting real-time search front and center. Up until now, when talking with friends about the true power of Twitter lying in it's real-time search capabilities, some seemed to not fully grasp the concept. Hopefully the new design will help more users understand how it works.

Social media marketing mishaps - say that five times fast. Today companies cannot afford to ignore the momentum of the social media revolution; still considered to be in an early stage of development and yet has had a profound impact on society and business at a global level. When looking towards the marketing possibilities of social networks...

A new offering enters the Enterprise 2.0 collaboration market this week with Jive Express. The goal of this software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of Jive's

The value in a domain name such as Collabo.com is no mystery, enterprise collaboration is a hot topic these days, especially when paired with social networking

Imagine being able to access your computer's desktop from any other computer, simply by opening a web browser. This is the vision of iCould, who has launched a

There are tens of millions of dollars transacted on Facebook via social games and virtual goods, yet Facebook itself has yet to directly take a cut of these

In a troubled economy LinkedIn has become a source for job seekers to connect with friend and colleagues to try and land a new position. Whether you're new to

When put side to side you can see the similarity between Amazon and Amazee, but if we were having a conversation and in one sentence I was talking about buying

Enterprise wiki and collaborative portal MindTouch today announces the release of their Desktop Suite of tools to enhance productivity in Microsoft Windows with

If you're a social media maven you most likely have profiles and pages all over the place, from FriendFeed and Flickr to Tumblr and Twitter. Now there is an