Social Software Vendor Roundup

Quick partial listing of vendors that frequently come up in my client inquiries (either from clients themselves, or referenced by myself):

Category	Vendor/Product	Comment
Blogs
	Apache Roller	Open source, also used in IBM Lotus Connections
	BEA Pages
	Jive Software Clearspace	Blogs one component of platform
	Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies
	Six Apart, Moveable Type
	Traction Software TeamPage
	WordPress	Open source, backed by Automattic
Wikis
	Atlassian Confluence
	BEA Pages
	IBM	Wiki capability within Domino, QuickR and QEDwiki
	Jive Software Clearspace	Wiki one component of suite
	Media Wiki	Open source
	Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies
	Mindtouch Deki Wiki	Open source community at OpenGarden.org.
	Socialtext
	Traction Software TeamPage
	Twiki	Open Source
Social Bookmark Systems
	BEA Pathways
	Cogenz
	Connectbeam
	IBM Lotus Connections	dogear component
	Scuttle	Open source
Feed Syndication Platforms
	Attensa
	KnowNow
	NewsGator
Social Network & Community Sites		Typically offer a mix of user profiles, blogs, wikis, social networking, etc.
	Awareness Networks
	CollectiveX
	Communispace
	HiveLive
	IBM Lotus Connections
	iCohere
	KickApps
	Lithium
	Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies
	Ning
	Ramius CommunityZero
	Select Minds
	Sparta Social Networks
	Prospero
	Telligent Community Server
	Tomoye
	Wetpaint

Comments

[Sam Lawrence]

I'd be interested if your client inquires come to you asking for solutions based the categories above. At the beginning of 2007, our customers came looking with a more tool-centric approach, but interestingly most now come looking for a suite of solutions. Our sales folks don't hear "we want a blog" or "we want a social network." They're looking to invest in a comprehensive suite solution--in a practical, enterprise software product and more--in a vision of how this can help deliver enterprise visibility and productivity. I'd be curious on your predictions for how your matrix will look at the end of 2008.

[Crowd Factory]

Please add Crowd Factory to the Social Network Section.

Thanks!

Mike,

Thanks for posting this.

I would also be curious if you had any predictions for 2008 -

We see our clients increasingly looking for ways to add the value of social software to their existing enterprise applications.

That might point more towards a tool approach, but perhaps the tool of the future is not one of the categories above but all of them together with a killer strategy to leverage incumbent enterprise data.

Eric