haveuheard's favorite 09/22/2008

• New IBM center to focus on social software - Triangle Business Journal:

  tags: business, news, it, ibm, social, sns, socialcomputing, research

  • IBM Corp. is opening the IBM Center for Social Software in Cambridge, Mass., to research and quantify the effects of social software on workplace productivity.
  • discover the next breakthrough application in Web 2.0 business software and persuade customers that the social software
  • develops social tools for businesses including project collaboration software, unified communications and Web conferencing, and user-generated content applications.
  • IBM said it has struck up partnerships with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab for research projects on social computing.