Social Networks Made Easy

Six Apart just released Movable Type 4.2 that makes building social networks easy. For corporations, these tools have value since they could be used to create company specific social networks without a hassle. ReadWriteWeb announced that this new product:

“provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform which includes member profiles, forums, friending capabilities, rating of content, and more”

WordPress, a competitor of Six Apart is also set to launch their own version of this tool, called BuddyPress, soon as well. So, as the article asks:

Is this the future of web publishing altogether?

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think that the ease of these tools will help to introduce more web 2.0 tools into the enterprise?

Mozilla Announces New Version of Weave Tool

This post on Read Write Web discussed that while Google announced that they were going to cancel their Browser Sync tool, Mozilla is releasing a new version of their comparative tool Weave. In the initial version, it was not as good as Google’s but the recent updates will help browsers sync more seamlessly. This could mean a lot to enterprises who want to standardize favorites lists all of their employee’s computers. In addition to synching bookmarks, other applications of this tool include that it saves: cookies, passwords, form data, tabs, and browsing history. Combined, this could help power the enterprise to collaborate better.

Are you in need of some new RSS feeds?

In a recent post at ReadWrite Web, they review the new site Toluu. This new sites is a feed aggregator, but also provides some community as well as some recommendations of posts you might like. ReadWrite Web recently listed the top ten reasons you’re going to love it, I’ll share a few with you.

2. It’s Easy. All you have to do once you’ve uploaded your RSS feeds is read. Then you can begin reading.

3. Collaborative filtering helps Toluu learn. As you begin to read your RSS feeds through Toluu and mark your favorites, the engine will begin to pull in other feeds that fit your preferences.

7. It’s not trying to replace your RSS reader. It’s trying to find new feeds that it believes you would be interested in.

8. The Feeds – There are tons of blogs out there with information you’re looking for. Why not make it easier on yourself and have another search engine do it for you?

Have you had experience with Toluu? What has your impression been? RSS feeds have quickly risen to a place of importance in the Enterprise 2.0 world. I think constantly having new recommended blogs that give new perspectives can be very valuable.