Social Software
Conclusion
This blog presented the functionalities of five kinds of social software which
supported by different vendors. They have similar functionalities as well as
its feature. All the functionalities mentioned
and compared in this blog are all based on the information provided by the
vendors.
IBM provides
the social software within a big product, IBM Lotus
Connections. It contains Dogear, blogs and profiles. Those components can be
accessed through browser interfaces or through existing applications such as
IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, and IBM WebSphere Portal. As a part of a
big product, those components can cooperate with each other, such as when user
search for a bookmark, he can find some other user’s bookmark, as well as that
user’s profile and the blogs, if he have enough privilege to do it. However, IBM Lotus Connections
is targeting at organizations rather than personal uses. Moreover, IBM Lotus Connections
is built on WebSphere Portal which requires high performance computers to hold
the programs. Therefore, it is not a kind of very popular software for the
public to use.
Some famous
vendors, on the contrary, who produce product targeting at the normal public users,
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, integrate their services together. Such as Google
and Yahoo, they introduced toolbar to integrate bookmarking, mail and search
services which make users easy to use. Moreover, they all integrate their
instant messaging programs with the mailbox. Microsoft in this case associates
blogs with instant messaging programs. Google integrates the instant messaging
programs into mailbox, as well as combine all the services under Google account.
User just simply goes to Google website with username and password can mange bookmarks,
blogs as well as chats.
In addition,
some of the products are not the main product for that vendor, such as Oracle,
Sun and Novell. They only have the instant messaging programs and all those
products faced to organizations uses. Therefore some technologies and features
are not as mature and various as those famous product that widely accepted by
the users.
Posted at 01:42PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Social Software |
