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<title>Prolify turns email into an enterprise collaboration hub</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6413</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:57:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6413</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While new kinds of collaboration solutions are popping up like dandelions in the summer, most people still collaborate, often poorly, via email. At DEMOfall 07, Prolify introduced a collaboration environment that uses Outlook, as well as Web and mobile email, as a hub to integrate and synch with other applications, such as CRM, ERP, Microsoft Project and salesforce.com. It allows users to assign, coordinate and track activities and projects without leaving email.  .  Prolify displays visual maps of requests and the status of activities and assigned resources from across different systems.    "We are not trying to replace project management applications. We let people work the way they are accustomed to and get more more people to involved," said Prolify CEO Ariela Avni."We allow ... ]]>
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<title>DEMOfall 07: New players in Web conferencing and meeting management</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6408</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:13:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6408</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The morning session at DEMOfall 07 featured companies trying to solve aspects of the meeting madness and collaboration with Web 2.0 goodness.    Dimdim launched what CEO DD Ganguly called "the world   s first, free and open source Web meeting solution." He took a shot at the leader in Web conferencing, WebEx, claiming that DimDim is changing the rules of the game. "You show slides, desktops, talk and listen, broadcast webcams and chat with zero installation," he stated.    So far  125,000 companies are using DimDim, Ganguly said. The software is open source (with some exceptions, such as the whiteboarding feature) and based on the Mozilla Public License. The hosted services uses Amazon   s Elastic Compute Cloud, which allows the company to only pay for ... ]]>
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<title>Propel prioritizes bandwidth usage</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6398</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:44:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6398</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Propel Software introduced its PBM (Personal Bandwidth Manager) at DEMOfall 07. The software download automatically prioritzes network traffic on a computer. For example, when there is contention between a Skype phone call and uploading files to a system, Propel PBM gives priority to the VoIP call and throttles back the uploading, optimizing the bandwidth for call quality.    Propel PBM supplies the prioritization schemas. "In general, time critical voice applications have priority. Interactive browsing is prioritized higher than email, and email higher than FTP," said CEO David Murray.    Propel PBM also shows data about network connection usage, such as bandwidth consumed and transfer rates.  Propel PBM is in private beta and will be priced between $10 and $50 for a year subscription, ... ]]>
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<title>Talari Networks and enterprise WAN economics</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6401</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:44:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6401</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a claim worth investigating. At DEMOfall 07 Talari Networks introduced a networking technology that it said will do for enterprise WANs what RAID did for storage. The technology can deliver a network with 30 to 100 times the bits per dollar, reducing WAN costs by 40 to 9o percent with greater reliability than existing corporate WANs, according to CEO Andrew Gottlieb.      Talari's Adaptive Private Networking leverages    reasonable quality    networks   such as public Internet connections via DSL, cable, WiFi, WiMax, leased lines, Metro Ethernet.      Talari algorithms determine the best path for each type of traffic as well as buffering, retransmission, reordering, encryption, per packet encapsulation, sequencing and duplicate compression. The company claims that even with connections that aren't as reliable as presumed ... ]]>
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<title>CoComment and Relevant Mind: Tracking the wisdom of the conversation</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6390</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:57:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6390</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At DEMOfall  07, CoComment and Relevant Mind showed off products that tap into the wisdom of conversations. Both services crawl millions of conversations (comments, discussions, forum on more than 200,000 Web sites) to create searchable databases.    CoComment introduced version 2.0 of its service, which tracks 11 million conversations across 220,000 sites, according to company CEO Matt Colebourne. In true Web 2.0 form, the new version adds more social networking, allowing people to connect more easily with friends and groups. Friends can be added to conversations, private or public, via services such as Twitter, Digg, del.ic.ious and email.    For businesses and brands, CoComment plans to offer a research tool for companies to get a sense on how they are perceived across the ... ]]>
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<title>Qumranet Solid ICE</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=242</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:00:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Kusnetzky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=242</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been chatting with several people, including John-Marc Clark, VP of Marketing of Qumranet about KVM, the open source kernel based virtual machine project that is now part of the Linux kernel, and the company's new product Solid ICE   . Solid ICE, that seems one part access virtualization, one part application virtualization and one part virtual processing software. Now the the company has come out of stealth mode, I can share a bit of what I've learned with you.    Here's what the company would say about Solid ICE:  Solid ICE is the only fully integrated desktop virtualization solution in the market today built specifically for virtualizing desktop environments, and therefore, provides all the benefits of centralized computing with the interactivity and rich user ... ]]>
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<title>LongJump debuts Web applications catalog</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6375</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:41:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6375</guid>
<description><![CDATA[LongJump has joined the parade of companies building development platforms and marketplaces for collaborative, Web-based business applications aimed at SMBs. At DEMOfall 07 the company launched 14 applications ranging from customer service to human resource management. User can customize applications and offer them through LongJump's catalog.    To jumpstart its business, LongJump is offering all of its applications for free until the end of the year. Pricing information will be disclosed after the free trial period expires, the company said.        LongJump isn't starting from scratch. It's parent company, Relationals, developing the underlying platform for its enterprise-class CRM and SFA application. LongJump offers built-in reporting; search across all its applications; customizable standard objects;  360-degree views of related data; embeddable business processes;, integrated calendars ... ]]>
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<title>Fluid Innovation bets on Virtual Ventures </title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6374</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:00:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6374</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you've ever wanted to be a venture capitalist betting on whether a technical innovation will succeed, Fluid Innovation will let you do so virtually. At DEMOfall 07 the company debuted Virtual Ventures, a fantasy VC game that applies crowd sourcing and prediction markets to determine the viability of technologies that are not fantasy.    Companies such as Microsoft and Lockheed Martin have worked Fluid Innovation to  sell their intellectual property, mostly software, to third-parties. With Virtual Ventures, the company offers a way for its paying clients to gather more data points from the community of users to help forecast potential outcomes for a particular technology they are selling.    Each week, Virtual Ventures will add five new items contributed by its roster ... ]]>
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<title>Attendi offers a social twist on search</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6359</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:41:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6359</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At DEMOfall 07  Attendi is introducing a search service with a "human" touch. Attendi touts itself as the "world   s first search engine to search real people   not experts or Web pages."  I'm not sure that promoting a search engine as powered by real people rather than real experts is a great idea. I actually prefer to get answers from experts or search engine algorithms that deliver results based on wisdom from the more informed crowd.    According to the press release, Attendi's goal is to "personify" the Internet:  By integrating a real-time chat tool into its search results, Attendi aims to personify the Internet, creating a global social network of active participants that make up a living search engine. Attendi allows users ... ]]>
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<title>SceneCaster: 3D media creation and sharing for the masses</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6348</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:56:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Farber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6348</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At this point 3D hasn't been a mainstream part of the social Web, mostly confined to virtual reality environments like Second Life. SceneCaster, which will debut at DEMOfall 07 this week, takes the concept that Flickr and YouTube has done well--Web 2.0 media sharing in a browser--and applies it to 3D scenes in a browser. The free service, which requires a download, allows users to create, share, tag, and collaborate on scenes, as well as to transform existing 3D scenes.    We call it 'user modified' content, said Mark Zohar, founder and senior vice president of SceneCaster. "We are not a virtual world like Second Life, but more like social media." Zohar said the goal is to create more of a mass ... ]]>
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