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At the same time, a recent InformationWeek survey of IT departments are showing considerably wariness for doing the same thing inside the firewall with employees, with over half being either skeptical or wary of the utility of Web 2.0 apps in the enterprise.  The biggest concerns: Security, little expertise with Web 2.0 products, integration issues, and unclear ROI top the list.  In other words, the group inside most organizations that's most familiar with IT and software, is thinking carefully before deploying things like Enterprise 2.0. This is an interesting contrast, with a growing list of companies cautiously but clearly testing out the Web 2.0 waters with their customers while remaining largely on the fence for its use inside the enterprise.  Certainly, many organizations likely believe that consumer facing sites that extensively leverage user generated content, mass participation, and social networking have been proved to work on a large scale by sites like MySpace and YouTube.  And that organizations have already purchased and deployed countless IT tools that were already designed support internal business processes, ad hoc collaboration, and information capture and storage.    Another probably contributor to the increasing use of customer-facing Web 2.0 applications by large organizations is simple competitive pressure.  This is something that IT departments have only recently started facing in a serious fashion with outsourcing and other budget diversions in the enterprise as business units decide that they can do better by pitting their internal IT suppliers with external ones.  Thus, because of industry competition, a company's external products tend to improve faster and be more innovative since the concern over the displacement and dislocation of falling behind one's competitive peers is often pronounced in many industries.  Competition is usually much less, and often non-existent, for internal IT products.

it doesn't help us understand if Web 2.0 concepts like crowdsourcing actually work well in the enterprise.  For one thing, instead of recruiting people who have previously had no relationship with you and cost-effectively aggregating their time together to create large levels of new output, employers have a zero-sum game with Web 2.0 inside the firewall.

the best that Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 applications like blogs and wikis can do it increase the productivity of existing business processes by improving efficiency as well as allowing them to self-improve through emergent structure and behavior.

The ShadoWeb service enables users to conveniently share any information on any site in the Internet. Information is stored in a site’s ”shadow”, where different topics are grouped as conversations containing comments consisting of text, pictures and (externally stored) videos.

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using the following JavaScript APIs: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge. Adding, sharing and finding content has never been easier. These benefits come with all the additional features needed to make it a part of your business: Enterprise security Simple installation and management Attractive, user-friendly WYSIWYG interface Powerful tools for structuring and searching your wiki Professional features such as PDF export and automated refactoring An open API for extension and integration

eTouch SamePage is the enterprise-strength wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs with the power and flexibility of content management system to effectively support, streamline, and manage collaborative team efforts. Our solution provides a wiki environment for teams to work together more effectively, making collaboration and sharing knowledge across project and geographies easier than ever. With our solution you can capture and leverage the value of collaborative work, taking full advantage of our extensive content management capabilities. Features include: * Simple and ...

multilingual content management. It handles Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease

Instant, Full-text Searching All content is searchable immediately; even Word documents and PDF files.

business processes part of the document workflow

release the source code

experiment in "microlocal" news

extensive code base